Dory_77
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- Apr 2, 2012
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Two weeks to go before the real thing kicks off for season 2023.
We should go in almost fully healthy (pending disaster in our final praccy game today). Viney is theoretically going to be fit for this game, but I don't think is worth risking this early in the year when we've got other midfield options. Fritsch should be right to go. Salem likely to miss, but Judd McVee has seemingly got his spot covered.
The Dogs will be without Gardner in defence, although Liam Jones
has returned to fill that hole, and Vandemeer on whatever wing/flank he plays. Close to full strength too, I guess.
Grundy loved single-handedly towelling the Dogs at the Pies, so hopefully he can pull off something close to that for us. The preseason hasn't filled me with confidence that our forward line will be any more efficient, but our mids and defence look very good again. I'm pretty confident we can squeeze out a 20 odd point win here, although it will no doubt be more uncomfortably close than it needs to be.
We should go in almost fully healthy (pending disaster in our final praccy game today). Viney is theoretically going to be fit for this game, but I don't think is worth risking this early in the year when we've got other midfield options. Fritsch should be right to go. Salem likely to miss, but Judd McVee has seemingly got his spot covered.
The Dogs will be without Gardner in defence, although Liam Jones
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Liam Jones
- Age
- 33
- Ht
- 199cm
- Wt
- 98kg
- Pos.
- Def
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 9.4
- 2star
- K
- 6.5
- 3star
- HB
- 2.9
- 3star
- M
- 4.3
- 4star
- T
- 2.0
- 4star
- MG
- 134.5
- 2star
- D
- 7.6
- 2star
- K
- 6.1
- 3star
- HB
- 1.4
- 1star
- M
- 4.1
- 4star
- T
- 1.4
- 2star
- MG
- 116.3
- 2star
- D
- 9.4
- 3star
- K
- 7.4
- 3star
- HB
- 2.0
- 2star
- M
- 4.0
- 4star
- T
- 2.2
- 4star
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Grundy loved single-handedly towelling the Dogs at the Pies, so hopefully he can pull off something close to that for us. The preseason hasn't filled me with confidence that our forward line will be any more efficient, but our mids and defence look very good again. I'm pretty confident we can squeeze out a 20 odd point win here, although it will no doubt be more uncomfortably close than it needs to be.