Maybe Burton to a wing, where he may be more suited, just gotta get Bergs to halfback, where hes a natural.
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if u watch the SPP injury you see his knee is bent and it twists, this is how you typically tear your ACL, jon ralph said that our doctors did 'the acl test' and the result was that we cant rule out the possibility he tore his acl. he is an intergral part of our team as he brings pressure as well as good forward craft, he also keeps jed McEntee out of the side lol.
lets hope rozee hasnt damaged his hammy and he just got ruled out with 'hammy awarness' like wines. he was in alot of pain and couldnt accelarate when he got back on the ground, its probs more likely he has a strain like jhf did. 3/5 mids have had hammy issues this year, not sure what our strength and conditioning coaches are doing with our mids this year.
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Bold a certainties to come in. Burton for Aliir, Finlayson for Powell-Pepper. Remember that our best performance for this year came when we played Dixon, Marshall, Finlayson and Georgiades against Essendon. All four are different types of forwards and Finlayson playing allows Marshall to play more of a roaming centre-half role which is when he's at his best.
Italics is a certainty to be an emergency and is being pulled just in case something happens to one of Zerk-Thatcher or Ratugolea.
Mead will get a starting gig to replace Rozee.
Evans and McEntee will be fighting over the sub role.
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All I wanna see this week is positivity coming out of alberton. No negative rubbish no woe is me with injuries
Give this team a mental out we might as well forfeit next week.
it’s a hinkley specialty to give them a mental out.
Give this team a mental out we might as well forfeit next week.
it’s a hinkley specialty to give them a mental out.
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The fact he was walking pretty much unaided is also a tell take sign.
That’s not unpopular…. But saying the midfield was better when 1 rotation short probably is. The preference is that it isn’t the captain who is out, but since Wines, Butters, Rozee, Drew and JHF have been in the same team, the midfield has sucked.
Big effort balls like JHF need to just grind away in the middle. He was excellent during the last quarter when he basically played the whole quarter in the middle.
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SPP is a massive loss given the alternatives available. Evans and McEntee are SANFL players and anasta and Charleston are kids.
I know Sinn is injured, but when do we cut our losses with the SANFL and throw him into the team?
Boak hasn’t done much wrong on the wing, but can you imagine the starting wings of Burgoyne and Sinn? They won’t try it this week, but if Farrell has another useless game, I can see calls to push Bergman back, bring in Sinn and drop Farrell.
Boak hasn’t done much wrong on the wing, but can you imagine the starting wings of Burgoyne and Sinn? They won’t try it this week, but if Farrell has another useless game, I can see calls to push Bergman back, bring in Sinn and drop Farrell.
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I don't have to imagine Sinn on the wing, I've seen it. Lots of clangers and running out of gas half way through the 1st quarter.
We use to say the same about Burgoyne, but he has come on massively this year.
Sinn needs to get his body right. Then anything is possible.
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Maybe esava can do something this week instead of him and aliir always spoiling each other.
He keeps going for contested marks, dropping them instead of spoiling.
If he wants to drop contested marks throw him up forward with Dixon.
He keeps going for contested marks, dropping them instead of spoiling.
If he wants to drop contested marks throw him up forward with Dixon.
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Burgoyne has always shown glimpses of potential, he's just a typical young player who has taken a few years to put it all together and find his feet at the level.
If we're being honest, Sinn is basically a fantasy at this point. Drafted on under 16/17 form in 2019/2020, didn't play much in his draft year and hasn't shown anything at all since being drafted. Everything is screaming bust.
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Burton can come back in as long as he doesn’t talk rubbish in the media again this week like last showdown
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Can’t wait for Thursday night showdown.
Will be classic what happen.
One game closer to the spud being gone.
Will be classic what happen.
One game closer to the spud being gone.
This is it. Ive reached the point where I have no idea who is joking and who is serious any more.
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In the Mark Williams era, with our injury outs I would have been extremely confident of a backs-to-the-wall win on Thursday night.
In the Ken Hinkley era, I am confident of an absolute capitulation. He’d be pissing his pants already.
The racists are one of the worst clubs right now. This should be a cakewalk and we should have all the confidence even with a couple of outs.
We dont though. We'll probably lose. And we all know why.
We dont though. We'll probably lose. And we all know why.
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Gonna be hilarious when the customers boo Finlayson but cheer Tex Walker
...Because its a big game and someone has to lose.
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And yet I honestly feel we have about a 10% chance to win. Honestly expecting crows by 5-6 goals in a wot happen powa special.
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Nah he can stuff off. He's become a much worse player than his first couple of years with hawthorn.
The issue with the injuries is the lack of depth in the SANFL team and the short turn around. Port have been somewhat lucky not to have multiple key first 23 injuries, but Port are badly about to be exposed.
Dropping McEntee and Burton was 100% correct, but I have a feeling they will come straight back in next week after half a game for a the magpies. Given that Jackson, Mackenzie, Narkle, Sinn, Lord, McCullum and Scully are all on the injury lists, it leaves a very shallow pool.
Let’s have a look at today’s named SANFL team:
Forward options
Anastasopoulos. Young and raw. Won’t debut off a short break. Not really a like for like for SPP
Charleson. Same.
Lorenzo. Same.
Evans. Emergencies this week. So maybe
McEntee. Not overly exciting….
Midfield
Literally no one. Given Jackson, Narkle and Sinn are all injured. Lorenzo is listed as midfielder, but is probably more likely to debut as a forward pocket and is still some way off that.
CHB
Marshall. Raw, needs more time.
Walsh. Very raw
Clurey. Been training on the wing
Not considered
Visintini - as he is a ruck
Port have zero depth.
So unfortunately, it will likely be something like:
Finlayson for SPP
Mead into the 22 for Rozee
Burton for Aliir
McEntee as sub.
How exciting.
Dropping McEntee and Burton was 100% correct, but I have a feeling they will come straight back in next week after half a game for a the magpies. Given that Jackson, Mackenzie, Narkle, Sinn, Lord, McCullum and Scully are all on the injury lists, it leaves a very shallow pool.
Let’s have a look at today’s named SANFL team:
Forward options
Anastasopoulos. Young and raw. Won’t debut off a short break. Not really a like for like for SPP
Charleson. Same.
Lorenzo. Same.
Evans. Emergencies this week. So maybe
McEntee. Not overly exciting….
Midfield
Literally no one. Given Jackson, Narkle and Sinn are all injured. Lorenzo is listed as midfielder, but is probably more likely to debut as a forward pocket and is still some way off that.
CHB
Marshall. Raw, needs more time.
Walsh. Very raw
Clurey. Been training on the wing
Not considered
Visintini - as he is a ruck
Port have zero depth.
So unfortunately, it will likely be something like:
Finlayson for SPP
Mead into the 22 for Rozee
Burton for Aliir
McEntee as sub.
How exciting.
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