Preview Saints vs Swans Sunday 21st August @Marvel - Top 4 or bust

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Interchange bench..
[22] Nick Blakey, [27] Justin McInerney, [3] Dylan Stephens, [2] Hayden McLean, [15] Sam Wicks, [17] Will Gould, [6] Logan McDonald, [16] Braeden Campbell

How good is our youth!
4 of these guys won't play. All are 2nd-4th year players and all would get a game at a lot of other clubs this weekend.
 
Glad Mason Wood is out. He's a hack but he sunk us once before as I'm sure many here remember.
 

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yeah, unfortunately we have a few who are surprisingly streaky kicks for goal ... reid has always had a bit of a tendency to freeze on the easier shots, very strange
gulden can duff a field kick now and then but his shots at goal always seem pretty good
and warner can do whatever he wants
i'm like other posters, i think mcdonald will sort himself out sooner rather later, i'm sure it's a confidence thing and linked to him having to come back after being dropped ... i have faith in him, think he's an absolute star in the making
It was kirkswan what said it I think but it is really perceptive. His accuracy is probably a bit related to fatigue and how his body is handling the endurance running and heav contact he is wearing. Give him a couple more preseasons I think he'll tidy up a fair bit.
 
Keen to see how we go against the Windhager tag. Probably will go to Warner to eliminate the metres gained, which will be good experience for him.
Didn't a team try and tag him early a few weeks back? Remember someone commenting on it in the gameday thread, might have been a bit of commentary I missed. It didn't sound like it was working at all.
 
Didn't a team try and tag him early a few weeks back? Remember someone commenting on it in the gameday thread, might have been a bit of commentary I missed. It didn't sound like it was working at all.
Lachlan Ash went to him v GWS.
Chad had a very good 1st qtr, but quieter for the rest of the game, but still contributed.

Windhager has been very good in a shutdown role, so I actually hope he does go to Chad, as he'll need to get used to the attention and learn how to cope with the tag.
Seems to me to be the sort of the bloke that won't be fazed by the attention and just another stage in his development.
 
Interesting that McLean has been named ahead of Armatey. I wonder if they'll give him a go heading into finals, or if they've drawn a line through Armatey for the rest of the season. I can't really see how McLean gets a game unless there's an injury, and I can't see how Armatey would have fallen out of favour (I thought he was decent without setting the world alight). I can see why the coaches would want to give McLean a look before heading into finals though. But I assume we'll go in unchanged.
 
Really, Saints shouldn't get within 5 goals of us. Yes they still have some goal scoring power with King, Member, Higgins but they have 5 of their best 22 out in Ryder, Wood, Crouch, Webster and Gresham.

The only thing I can see stuffing us up is if dee's beat Brisbane by 30+ points and we don't play our natural game style because we worry about %.
 
Lachlan Ash went to him v GWS.
Chad had a very good 1st qtr, but quieter for the rest of the game, but still contributed.

Windhager has been very good in a shutdown role, so I actually hope he does go to Chad, as he'll need to get used to the attention and learn how to cope with the tag.
Seems to me to be the sort of the bloke that won't be fazed by the attention and just another stage in his development.
That was also a day or two after the photo leak, I wouldn't put that solely down to the tag.
 
Our last 2 x 37 point wins were glorious occasions:

  • the 2016 Prelim vs the Cats
  • the 2012 win against the Hawks in Tassie
The Tassie game was a Goodes milestone game I think?
 
Interesting that McLean has been named ahead of Armatey. I wonder if they'll give him a go heading into finals, or if they've drawn a line through Armatey for the rest of the season. I can't really see how McLean gets a game unless there's an injury, and I can't see how Armatey would have fallen out of favour (I thought he was decent without setting the world alight). I can see why the coaches would want to give McLean a look before heading into finals though. But I assume we'll go in unchanged.
I wouldn't read much into it. We're playing reserves the day before, and often leave out a tall and the eventual medi-sub from the reserves lineup in that scenario. I suspect McLean will still play a half maybe, before resting up in case of a late out to a tall. It means the club could want Amartey to keep getting maximum game time and to stay in form, because he's actually next in if there's an injury in finals. Or we think Amartey will be more important to a reserves win, top 4 there, and prolonging the backup of having reserves play through our senior finals run. You can argue it both ways.

In any case, if the club have looked at the VFL season, and have McLean ahead of Amartey, we need some new selectors.
 
Surely Wicks, otherwise Campbell misses out on a reserves game 2 weeks in a row. McLean might just play a half the day before, just in case.
My take on how the team is written is that McLean will replace McDonald OR they're having a kick-off at Friday training. Curiously worded. NOT "No change" or "McLean in for McDonald". Silence.
 
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