Changes for Rnd 6 V Brisbane.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Yes he does - and Reg often gets wrapped up with Ted and retired as well - despite the fact that Reg is in fantastic form, only turns 30 in June and hopefully should have quite a few years left!

Reg ought to be in AA contention at this stage of the year. Rarely gets outbodied, and his ball use has improved majorly this year. Is having a cracking start to the year , and he was pretty darn good last year to.

[Meg]

Poor old Teddy gets retired a lot.

Yes he does - and Reg often gets wrapped up with Ted and retired as well - despite the fact that Reg is in fantastic form, only turns 30 in June and hopefully should have quite a few years left!

[Nico]

Best thing for him to play against a bottom team with not too many tall forwards.

Sometimes a game in the first can lift the confidence after three years of not going places.

And we must prepare for the retirement of teddy.

We have Talia, a good additions, but AA needs to put his hand up now!

At the end of the season, there will be a cull, and we have too many reserve backmen.

Poor old Teddy gets retired a lot.

By Ted missing 2 rounds he comes in at Round 7 a fresh player. This should enable his geriatric body to easily get through a rigorous season right to the GF. Then again he will be quickly get written off if he has a howler. Longmire said he will be doing all the training so will not lose any fitness.

[Old Royboy]

Allir's promotion not good news for X Richards. Has X stagnated in the ressies?

[707]

No O'Riordan. Must be playing in the reserves.



:-)

[MadCanuck]

No Rohan. Must be playing in the reserves.

[ugg]

Ext bench is those four plus Robinson Cunningham and Hewett

[ugg]

Aliir, Nankervis, Hiscox, Jones in for Teddy

[Doctor]

Song for Aliir.

[Cosmic Wizard]

I'm also very excited about aliir. I've only seen a little bit of him in the Neafl live steams but I like his athleticism and his leap is terrific. He can also ruck a little and be third man up. I too think he has the potential to lift when surrounded by senior players and in the ferrocity of afl level footy

Best thing for him to play against a bottom team with not too many tall forwards.

Sometimes a game in the first can lift the confidence after three years of not going places.

And we must prepare for the retirement of teddy.

We have Talia, a good additions, but AA needs to put his hand up now!

At the end of the season, there will be a cull, and we have too many reserve backmen.

[Ludwig]

If you think back a bit to the early days of LRT's career, there weren't many highlights until the 2005 GF, after which we started to view him differently. Eventually he became a legend loved by all Swans' supporters. Reg also went though quite a long and much maligned apprenticeship. Even the most sought out defenders like Cale Hooker go through much criticism during early years. It just takes time to learn the craft.

It's hard to know how Aliir will go this week or what path his career will take, only that it's not often that key defenders come out and play great from the start. I'm sure there will be mistakes, but hopefully he shows he has a big future in the AFL. As it stands now, a Talia-Aliir KPD combo looks the most likely replacement for Ted and Reg although that's just based on who we have on our list rather than on a body of good performances.

[bloodspirit]

Teddy is listed as 2-3 weeks on the injury list of 21 April, so that gives Aliir a chance to also play the Bombers in round 8 if he does well this weekend.

It's v bombers round 7, which he'll surely play. Then v Richmond round 8 which I expect he'll play too if Teddy's still out.

[aguy]

I'm also very excited about aliir. I've only seen a little bit of him in the Neafl live steams but I like his athleticism and his leap is terrific. He can also ruck a little and be third man up. I too think he has the potential to lift when surrounded by senior players and in the ferrocity of afl level footy

[Mountain Man]

I have only watched him live a couple of times in NEAFL, and occasionally watched Ressie replays. IMHO, Allir is incredibly athletic with a Nic Nac type leap. He mostly seemed to punch the ball rather than mark it, and mostly seemed to play from behind.

I agree that having senior people around him will help to position him and assist his judgement.

[707]

With respect Ludwig I don't think Aliir is anywhere close to senior selection. He was deadest ordinary on Saturday and I was below Rhyce and AJ and he was absolutely doing there head in. He is a perfect physical specimen and he is athletically and physique wise ready for AFL football but he just seems to have no positional sense at all. His kicking is OK without being sensational............

Just shows how we don't always see the same as the inner sanctum!

I think we are all really interested to see if Aliir can do the job at senior level where he is surrounded by experienced backmen to assist him rather than ressie players. Brisbane then Essendon are two good sides to start on. Fingers crossed.