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It's actually irrelevant.

You literally can't pick a team that would be worse than tonight's.

But anyway.
Out: Hall, Turner, Howe, Comben, Coleman-Jones, Powell
In: Davies-Uniacke, Greenwood, Bergman, Free, Drury, Phillips



I like it. Powell's injured, but was so s**t that we list him as dropped anyway.
Powell has been woeful since round 3 and he had a stinker of a night that should have rightfully seen him dropped before he fukced his ankle.
 

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I would be very weary of playing the same back 6 against this mob. They are not slow, they can break lines, run in chains and hurt you.

Keen on who we go with.
 
If Hall isn’t dropped I will spew. He is a fraud. It’s not personal, I wish him no ill, but I hate watching him play football. Drop Turner, Howe, LMac, Corr, McKay and Powell. Fire Rawlings and Gavin Brown. Pray for Charlie Comben. How much more of this can we take? What did we do to deserve this team???
 
Clarko has now used two pressers to condition us to the fact we’re going to play the kids. Tonight has probably meant we have to rip the band aid off a little quicker than planned, but certainly over the next few weeks I’d expect Phillips, Wardlaw, Bergman, Goater (when fit), Drury, Archer, Laz, Mahoney and even Spicer & Edwards to come under consideration at selection.

Next week we’ll have to get inventive, so I’m thinking:

IN: LDU, Greenwood (second ruck), Wardlaw, Bergman, Phillips, Turner
OUT: Powell (inj), CCJ (inj), Chom (inj), Hall (I like him, but it doesn’t look like he’s on the same page as the game plan), Howe, Drury

I know he wants to play down back, but we’ll need to send Griff up forward. I think we can get away with Corr and McKay as our KPDs next week against St Kilda.
 
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Surely Greenwood is a better option for us, he plays tall, tackles like a beast and can run both ways thanks to his fitness base. It’s a staggering call to leave him out considering some of our vanilla selections.
 
Out: CCJ (injured), Comben (injured), Powell (injured), Hall, Turner and Howe

In: Bergman, LDU, Phillips, Greenwood, Drury and Laz

I thought about adding Ford or Free, but the former hasn't been great lately and the latter is very agricultural.
 
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Greenwood was good in rounds 1 & 2. Bring him back in.
Like others, in Clarko we trust, but the one genuine puzzle I have about selection is Greenwood (yeah, yeah, I know about Turner, but it's only in the last 2 weeks that Drury has presented as a viable option). Back on topic, you might not want Greenwood and Cunners at the same CBA, but it doesn't mean they can't be rotating, esp. with LDU out. I don't get it
 
Worse thing is the cupboard is bare and we have hardly any talent to bring in.

Im going to see if I can piece together a slightly less s**t side.

FB - Logue Ziebell Archer (shutdown job)
HB - Bonar Bergman Young (assuming Goater is injured)
C - Tucker LDU (if fit?) Shiels
HF - Ford Zurhaar Stephenson
F - Drury Larkey Curtis
R - Goldstein Simpkin Sheezel

Int - Greenwood, Cunnington, Dawson, Phillips (would love Wardlaw in but they won’t do it)
Sub- Perez

Not a great side, but at least the same *ers spudding it up weekly are gone.

McDonald won’t get dropped so wishful thinking.
Archer ,Bonar , young , Ford (4 I had on my delist end of this year )
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Out: CCJ (injured), Comben (injured), Powell (injured), Hall, Turner and Howe

In: Bergman, LDU, Phillips, Greenwood, Drury and Laz

I thought about adding Ford or Free, but the former hasn't been great lately and the latter is very agricultural.
Yep “ farmer wants a wife “ Free 👍
 
The three forced chances mean that we won't see the axe swung too hard, if at all.

The structural impact of losing CCJ and Comben is too confusing anyway to speculate on what will happen. Hamish Free debut? Greenwood to second ruck? Logue up forward made the structure look better, so maybe we'll give that a few more weeks?

Hopefully, LDU's heel is feeling better and I wouldn't mind Drury and Bergman either.
 
If Hall isn’t dropped I will spew. He is a fraud. It’s not personal, I wish him no ill, but I hate watching him play football. Drop Turner, Howe, LMac, Corr, McKay and Powell. Fire Rawlings and Gavin Brown. Pray for Charlie Comben. How much more of this can we take? What did we do to deserve this team???
Carey Curse
 
FB - Lmac Bmac Ziebs
HB - Sheezel Bonar Bergman
C - Tucker LDU Shiels
HF - Bull Logue Stevo
F - Drury Larkey Curtis
R - Goldstein Simpkin Phillips

INT: Greenwood, Corr, Taylor, Cunnington
SUB: Laz
Surely Lazzaro gets a chance at some point. Can't be any worse IMO and will try his guts out.
 
A couple of things that have hurt as well this yr Tarryn going awol, and possibly not coming back. Losing JHF and being replaced by Sheezel , a positive but already probably taking more on than he should. Then Wardlaw who hasn’t played yet so we are starting from scratch with a new player again . Losing Xerri ,who was going to replace Goldstein ,too another negative. This is all combining and delaying our , yet again new start .
 
FB: Ziebell, McKay, Bergman
HB: Sheezel, Corr, Thomas
C: McDonald, Greenwood, Shiels
HF: Drury, Logue, Stephenson
FF: Zurhaar, Larkey, Curtis
R: Goldstein, Simpkin, LDU
INT: Wardlaw, Phillips, Goater, Powell

The side needs to look like this at some point this year. It'll be a slow journey getting to this point, but at the moment this looks like the group that'll get us within 50 points of another side.
 
FB: Ziebell, McKay, Bergman
HB: Sheezel, Corr, Thomas
C: McDonald, Greenwood, Shiels
HF: Drury, Logue, Stephenson
FF: Zurhaar, Larkey, Curtis
R: Goldstein, Simpkin, LDU
INT: Wardlaw, Phillips, Goater, Powell

The side needs to look like this at some point this year. It'll be a slow journey getting to this point, but at the moment this looks like the group that'll get us within 50 points of another side.
Goater did a hammy last week and Wardlaw is still weeks off fitness wise.
 

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