Originally Posted by
Mug Punter
To be fair it was only one poster who was outright abusive towards Hayward. I think the general feeling is that he is probably not quite physically ready for finals and he has had some very very quiet games against more physical opponents. Nothing wrong there that another pre-season or two won't address, on the whole he has had a brilliant first season.
I think Cunningham would be a safer option, bigger bodied and very pacey who can help defend from the front.
I think we absolutely need Naismith as our number 1 tap ruckman, him for Sinclair seems most likely.
Labelling reasoned debate for Towers as "towers hate" is ridiculous, he's not let us down and played some good footy but you'd think it comes down to him or Newman right now not even considering Aliir coming back for structural reasons, seeing Mills have to try and play on Jenkins did make me wonder if Aliir was still a chance.
All premiership winning clubs will have 3-4 players with 15 or so games who will feel unlucky on missing the GF, IF it is us then I'd say Hayward, Towers and Sinclair may be the unfortunates for us.
With the exception of Jones who may take a week it would be logical for the tough decisions to be made this week and I expect the side v Carlton to be our finals starting 22 (excluding Jones and injuries).
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