Tippo might have missed that dynasty, and buddy is definitely in the twilight of his career, but yes, the idea of a midfield of JPK, Mitchell and Dunkley feed by a fit Naismith would send shivers down the spin of every other team. It wouldnt matter who was in your forward line.Originally Posted by Ralph Dawg
Doesn't Monday seem better with a win!
Outs: Holding players and giving away silly free kicks; there are three umpires watching for this!
Hayward; he is very lucky his fist did not connect to Pittard, or he would be looking at 4 weeks
McCartin, no real impact and after a mild concussion can take a rest
Sinclair, can stay in the team but gave away 4 high free kicks: if you can't bend the knees, don't tackle them!
Ins: For Gods sake, lets stick to a wining team and keep McLean and Fox in: both really good
Goal kicking practise; we should have blow away the Roos but some seriously bad misses meant they nearly came back and pinch it
Florent; he must send the week practising hitting up players on the lead; did any of his kick hit the intended target?
If McCartin & Hayward are out, then like for like replacements, then McInerney and Amartey
Just love the Swans proving all the doom merchants wrong again; although this is a yearly tradition now.
Amartey has been injured and is not ready. Talls; Maibaum, O'Connor (Irish), Brand, Gould, Melican & Knoll. Most of those are backs. If Naismith comes back we could play Sinclair Forward/Ruck and McLean as the CHF. This would work. But if not then I have a suggestion. Bring a defender in, a tall and play Dawson forward/Mid changing with Kennedy. Both have the capacity to stretch the Doggies defence they are both good overhead and are very good in close and outside. Whether we go tall in the back half is going to depend on the Dogs. They now have some real talls in the forward line. In fact we need to be aware of Naughton and Bruce and Bontempelli going forward. After all Bontempelli is 193cm.
What time do they make the team announcement
Fox will not go forward. He will stay where he is. Dawson might go forward or into the mids you never know. Brand & Melican in would be too tall with Aliir also there.
If we drop all non performers then we have to go this way;
Lewis Taylor; may have saved himself due to his goal because 5 disposals is not good but I am not convinced. He was in the mids for a while and if you can't get stats in the mids you are cactus.
Colin O'Riordan; I know Colin's main job is to shut down his man but to only have 4 disposals and no influence on the game is pretty bad seeing he is supposed to be a run off defender.
Nick Blakey; He only managed 6 disposals too. Kicked one goal and one shocker 20 metres out.
Will Hayward; Again low numbers. he kicked 2 against Bombers and 1 against Norf. Maybe his other games save him. We'll see.
The Sinclair v McLean argument should be carried out only if Big Sammy is available and fit. But I would not get rid of McLean even if Sammy is fit. McCartin is injured and even if Sammy comes in then we still need tall forwards and both Sinclair and McLean can fill those roles.
Sam Gray; Gray was more than serviceable. But is not hitting the scoreboard. He needs to hit the scoreboard. Otherwise we need to bring in someone like Wicks, Bell, Ling, warner or Ellijah Taylor etc that can do that.
Ok so in saying that I don't believe Lewis Taylor gets saved by a goal. His main role is as a changing mid not a forward. His output was incredibly poor.
blakey has been poor all season. Time to use the knife.
Out: McCartin (Injured), Taylor (ommitted), Blakey (ommitted), O'Riordan
In; From) Naismith (if passed fit), Brand, Ronke, Gould, Stephens, Warner, E Taylor, Bell, Maibaum
We do not have any key forwards that are fit so McLean stays
I can't see there being wholesale changes to a line up that beat the Kangas on the weekend.
McCartin out - Crayfish in. Sinkers to play as a tall forward / ruckman.
We don't need Sinclair forward if we retain McLean, which we surely will.
Hard to tell due to the complete vacuum of information about the scratch match form, but Maibuam may be a good fit to replace McCartin. He has played both back and forward before and done reasonably well.
We have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!
Spoke again to Elijahs ex coach and he said without a doubt he is a Top 5 from this draft
Not sure where he is at for training
I liked his highlights reel, hoping he can settle into life as an AFL footballer and make the grade with us. More magic in the forward half :-)
Playing short quarters means impact players are going to pull low numbers. I actually thought lewis was good and that Will showed good signs.
Playing short quarters means impact players are going to pull low numbers. I actually thought lewis was good and that Will showed good signs.
Sydney
B: Lloyd Rampe Fox
HB: Aliir Mills Florent
C: Dawson Parker Cunningham
HF: Heeney Rowbottom Ronke
F: Taylor Blakey Hayward
Foll: Sinclair Kennedy Papley
Int: McInerney McLean Hewett Naismith
Emg: Gray O'Riordan Stoddart Clarke
In: McInerney Naismith Ronke
Out: Gray (omitted) McCartin (injured) O'Riordan (omitted)
Western Bulldogs
B: Williams Keath Daniel
HB: Johannisen Cordy Crozier
C: Richards Bontempelli Macrae
HF: Dale Bruce McLean
F: Wallis Naughton Lloyd
Foll: English Liberatore B.Smith
Int: West Vandermeer Lipinski Butler
Emg: Sweet Porter Dickson La.Young
In: Butler (debut) Lipinski West
Out: Dunkley (injured) Jong (injured) Suckling (omitted)
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