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Grimes into the guts would be great. But who does he move out? Davey, Scully, Trengove, Jones, Moloney will all need to spend a lot of time in there if we're a chance.

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    Neither Sylvia or McDonald came up. That's very suprising

    Bailey hinted Col would be a near certainty to play.

    Just shows NO certainty anymore.Better to play when right.MFC would have been better if they had not played Sylvia injured for weeks rather than carry him.

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    Just shows NO certainty anymore.Better to play when right.MFC would have been better if they had not played Sylvia injured for weeks rather than carry him.

    No.

    If I remember correctly he was misdiagnosed. And even if I have that wrong, he still played a lot of very good footy. If you dropped every player who had a little niggle, you'd be fielding 5 players every week.

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    No he doesn't.

    His disposal lets him down and he needs to work on it as well as a few other things.

    Good that he got a taste, now he knows what's required.

    There was an article the other day about what stats AFL coaches believe are valuable etc. Jordie has shown us

    he can find the ball, but he hasn't shown us that he can use it well.

    Gysberts was probably in our best 2 players in both of his first two games has one quiet one and is dropped. I am amazed that people are calling for him to go back to Casey to work on his ball use. I would argue his ball use in his 3 games has been as good if not better than another youngster who has played all year yet I have seen no calls for his demotion.

    I would have kept him in and made no change.

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    I fail to see how bringing MacDonald in for Gysberts makes the team any better.

    It doesn't make us any worse I don't think, but IMO changes should only be made if there's a net benefit to the side.

    MacDonald for Gysberts doesn't take us anywhere I don't think. I would have rewarded Gysberts for 2 great games and being a part of the 22 that drew with a premiership contender by letting him go to Adelaide.

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    I think this was a case of Adelaide loading up their forwardline with talls, and us needing to cover them all.

    I don't care that MacDonald is in, after all, we recruited him for this exact reason, but I would have dropped Dunn for him, and left Gysberts in the side.

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    I fail to see how bringing MacDonald in for Gysberts makes the team any better.

    I would have rewarded Gysberts for 2 great games and being a part of the 22 that drew with a premiership contender by letting him go to Adelaide.

    But you're not the football dept are you? And you have no idea about whether the Gys is injured, sore, tired etc?

    Then again maybe its a match up.

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    Probably the midfielder that was dropped.

    You make a good point. :D

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