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Changes vs port figjamalaide
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To a certain degree.
Not sure the game is going to get too much back to the super contested high pressure swarming of recent years.
Stand n chip rule means it's too easy for the ball holder to wait for a team mate to slip into a little hole for another uncontested possession. Players will be forced to play a little more one on one footy than before.
Early days yet, but it's not hard to see that we need to make some small tweaks here and there to our game.
This makes sense MrB. A friend at the club tells me we are 3-5 weeks from “peak” fitness and still catching up to the non- finalists.
Grunt in the contest is still vital, need that burst from the contest. RCD is perfect.
Great call on Naish, wish I’d thought of it. That short 45 kick and getting into space is vital.
Get him in.
Gee this all sounds very familiar. We lose a few games early and lose a few players through injury. It's happened past 2 years.
Anyway not expecting to beat port - our conditioning is slowly building
out prestia cotchin McIntosh
In martyn ross ralphsmith
If ross suspended then in rcd
Anyway not expecting to beat port - our conditioning is slowly building
out prestia cotchin McIntosh
In martyn ross ralphsmith
If ross suspended then in rcd
Again only saw first half yesterday, did a couple of very good things , however in general he didn’t do a great deal, hopefully he was part of the domination in the second half.
Dow apparently has appendicitis
From what I read today it seems that Cotchin, McIntosh, Prestia and Vlastuin are out injured.
Vlastuin apparently has a worse knee that first thought.
Also, did you notice Nank having a guard put on his leg on the bench about 3/4 time I think it was.
Cannot see us beating Port with those players out. In fact, after our poor performance against the Swannies I doubt we could beat North right now.
Vlastuin apparently has a worse knee that first thought.
Also, did you notice Nank having a guard put on his leg on the bench about 3/4 time I think it was.
Cannot see us beating Port with those players out. In fact, after our poor performance against the Swannies I doubt we could beat North right now.
I thought i was reading the thread from last year after we lost to the hawks in rd3, or the year before when we lost to the Giants.
we played terribly- almost as bad as we could, and lost to a good young by 7 goals. big deal.
its not panic stations, obviously a few guys are injured, but we wont be dropping more than 2- Eggs for Houli if Houli is fit, and probably Aarts- as DImma said pregame we have 1 extra small and they will rotate. or George/Rioli will play wing for Kmac.
Eggs wasnt awful, but in our backline system everyone needs to defend, and be able to defend whichever forward gets in their 'zone'. hence occasionally Short stand Sam Reid. we have won 3 premierships with this kind of defence, and i dont imagine we will change much cos we had a shitful day in April.
Out Cotch , Aarts , Kmac , Prestia , Egg
IN Ross(or rcd if susp) Hugo to play as lead up forward , Naish , Samson or Chol , Houli
Caddy up forward or out of the side
IN Ross(or rcd if susp) Hugo to play as lead up forward , Naish , Samson or Chol , Houli
Caddy up forward or out of the side
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Nank being injured would explain why he was so off his game. We have no one to replace him though. Would have to play both Chol and Ryan.
Left field here, but we haven't really replaced Vlastuin down back and we are struggling with intercepting.
How about Chol? He's a beautiful mark and a beautiful kick but its his intensity and I think he struggles when pushed under the ball a little bit. A fast quick intercept defender would be great for us.
Has anyone seen him tried down back? I know we are going with Biggy in that role in the 2's at the moment, but maybe in previous years?
Either that or Miller and then free Balta up to play Vlastuins role.
How about Chol? He's a beautiful mark and a beautiful kick but its his intensity and I think he struggles when pushed under the ball a little bit. A fast quick intercept defender would be great for us.
Has anyone seen him tried down back? I know we are going with Biggy in that role in the 2's at the moment, but maybe in previous years?
Either that or Miller and then free Balta up to play Vlastuins role.
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Biggie is suspended at he moment. Miller is the most likely of those available. This might work better when Dave/Noah ruck, but also Miller was given some ruck trials last year in the scratchies so he could be deployed there too without disrupting our defence too much.
I thought Chol looked better when he was across HB a week ago in the reserves, but that was probably floating back rather than being directly accountable. And VFL with the rules that week was much different to AFL.
I thought Chol looked better when he was across HB a week ago in the reserves, but that was probably floating back rather than being directly accountable. And VFL with the rules that week was much different to AFL.
Out Kmac Cotchin Prestia Eggy
In Ross Houli Newby (Will) Martyn MJ Rioli
B Astbury Balta Broad
HB Short Grimes Houli
C Caddy Graham Pickett
HF Baker Castagna MJ Rioli
F Jack Lynch Aarts
R Nank D Martin Bolton
Int: Ross Newby Martyn Lambert Shed
Em D Rioli
In Ross Houli Newby (Will) Martyn MJ Rioli
B Astbury Balta Broad
HB Short Grimes Houli
C Caddy Graham Pickett
HF Baker Castagna MJ Rioli
F Jack Lynch Aarts
R Nank D Martin Bolton
Int: Ross Newby Martyn Lambert Shed
Em D Rioli
