MarlonBrander
Rookie
- Apr 6, 2021
- 23
- 59
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Banned
- #176
I hear you, but this is - as far as we can tell - our toughest stretch of the season. Ease up on the training, manage his minutes, but I think we need him out there.
If we can win the games against Saints and Pies, maybe give him a rest against Geelong as that might align with Bailey Williams returning to action and a game or two under his belt in the WAFL.
I'm not sure.
It's nothing more than a hunch, but I'd be surprised if they ask him to go into the ruck this week.
He had a splint on his wrist after round 1, a shoulder complaint after round 2, and apparently some form of lower limb complaint (either knee or ankle) during the week leading up to the Port game.
That's a lot of little niggles.
I think he is too sore to ruck.
Simmo has already foreshadowed that Oscar can't ruck every week, and Brander doesn't possess the vertical leap to contest in the ruck.
If that is the case, the selection question is: Do you play the extra tall with both Oscar and Vardy? or do you give Oscar a week off?
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