Preview Round 3, 2022: Blues v Hawks, 1:10pm Sunday 3rd April, MCG

[Strapping Young Lad]

Changes and all that in here.

Out : Wingard?

IN : Day?

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

Big test this one.

Blues are a very good unit from what I've seen.

Send Ward to Walsh all day.

 

[WWSD]

This is one of Hawthorn’s four replacement games. It’s likely to be a packed crowd. I highly recommend to anyone that is planning on going to book a reserved seat early.

 

[WWSD]

Does Hartigan come in?

Brockman and Butler haven’t been named for Box Hill’s game today. You can rule them out for this one as a replacement for Wingard.

IN: Day

OUT: Wingard (Injured)


B: Hardwick, Frost, Grainger-Barras

HB: Jiath, Sicily, Scrimshaw

C: Morrison, Mitchell, Ward

HF: Newcombe, Lewis, Gunston

F: Breust, McEvoy, Moore

R: Reeves, O’Meara, Worpel

INT: Day, MacDonald, Nash, Maginness, Phillips (Sub)

EMG: Howe, Shiels, Long, Hartigan

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Was Wingless hammy just tightness or worse. Either way you'd think it would be at least a week

Depending on match ups it would probably be a straight swap for either Day or Shiels

Can't see anyone else getting dropped regardless of performance. Don't mess with a winning formula

 

[MasterSamurai]

Cancel out their midfield and you're own you're way to a victory.

 

[Pinoy Hawk]

Can our current lineup in defense be able to handle Curnow and Mackay ?

 

[WWSD]

Can our current lineup in defense be able to handle Curnow and Mackay ?

Curnow is far more athletic than McKay, much better at ground level. Frost is the perfect matchup in my opinion, as he has the speed to be able to match him. Unless Hartigan comes in, I don't know who gets McKay. We need to win the midfield battle and limit Carlton's forward 50 entries.

vs McKay?
Frost vs Curnow
Grainger-Barras vs De Koning
Scrimshaw vs Silvagni
Sicily vs Cripps

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Curnow is far more athletic than McKay, much better at ground level. Frost is the perfect matchup in my opinion, as he has the speed to be able to match him. Unless Hartigan comes in, I don't know who gets McKay. We need to win the midfield battle and limit Carlton's forward 50 entries.

vs McKay?
Frost vs Curnow
Grainger-Barras vs De Koning
Scrimshaw vs Silvagni
Sicily vs Cripps

Is Hartigan still on our list?

Jeez, would not want him in. Absolute Butcher and McKay would give him a bath

Frost on Curnow but not sure about McKay. We didn't really have key defender to take the gorilla's
Would prefer Sicily to peel off

 

[HolyRioli]

No ice on chads legs post-match

 

[chopflop]

Sic to Curnow
Frost to MacKay
DGB to De Koening or resting ruck.

CJ and Scrim 3rd up all day.
We have enough pressure from midfield I would back in our team defence under the high ball.

Hard pass on Hartigan. Purely back-up this year

 

[KermitJagger]

If you guys haven't noticed, our defenders are doing fine as is. We're not going to make changes like bringing Hartigan in for McKay when our current defenders managed to keep a Norf forward line with 3 talls and a rotating ruck quiet. We have a good sized, flexible and mobile defense who can all pretty much match up on all sizes and peel off and assist where needed.

 

[KermitJagger]

No ice on chads legs post-match

Doesn't matter, to use the sub you can't play the subbed out player the next week

 

[Big Delut]

Doesn't matter, to use the sub you can't play the subbed out player the next week

Definitely not true. Zorko was subbed out last week and played today

 

[KermitJagger]

Definitely not true. Zorko was subbed out last week and played today

Oh right, that must just for concussions? Idk.

I remember the messaging was that they'd have to sit out for 12 days, but just searched it and it states "should a subbed-out player recover from an injury other than concussion before the next match, he may be granted to play provided his return is ticked off by the AFL Medical Officer."

So really you can be a funny bugger with the sub rule and have no ramifications.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Wingard had a tight hammy? Assess.

Day in.

Impey a chance.

 

[Tassie Cryptik]

No ice on chads legs post-match

He didn't seem to be limping.
A shifty medical sub?

 

[Dewyyyyy]

He didn't seem to be limping.
A shifty medical sub?

Tightness. Doesn’t need ice and wouldn’t limp. But if you run too hard you’d have a fair chance of pinging it especially Chads history.

 

[Blackhawk42]

No ice on chads legs post-match

Some new science suggests heat is better. Ice may be on the way out.

 

[KermitJagger]

Some new science suggests heat is better. Ice may be on the way out.

Indeed. If you're aiming for recovery, ice temporarily stops the inflammatory process which means that it slows down recovery. It's still good for taking down swelling or pain mitigation if you want to get someone back on the ground asap, but if the aim is to recover there are better methods.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I’m not sure it’s fair on the guy to do it each week, but I love Tommy Phillips as the sub. He gives us so much run and effort when he comes on.

 

[TazHawk15]

I’m not sure it’s fair on the guy to do it each week, but I love Tommy Phillips as the sub. He gives us so much run and effort when he comes on.

Imagine the running power if we had Bramble as the sub.

 

[Tassie Cryptik]

Will the AFL look to move the match of the round to a prime time slot?

 

[Big Hotdog]

I’m not sure it’s fair on the guy to do it each week, but I love Tommy Phillips as the sub. He gives us so much run and effort when he comes on.

When Phillips comes on he picks up the pace of the game straight away. Some players take five to ten minutes to get going.

Well done to Tommy. Not helping himself if he hates being sub.

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[Argy]

Cancel out their midfield and you're own you're way to a victory.

Now that's a big ask. I doubt we can do that consistently all game. I think our drive has to come from our backline.