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Sellar was one of 3-4 players who beat their direct opponent last week. How you can count at least 10 who were better is beyond me.

Viney, Terlich, M. Jones, Frawley, Tapscott, Gawn, Dawes, Howe, Evans, Dunn and McKenzie were all better than Sellar last week.
That's 11 names.
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RalphiusMaximus
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I feel for Jack Fitzpatrick. They guy has been in our best three weeks running at Casey and still not even a spot as an emergency in a side that's crying out for another tall forward.

pantaloons
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If we play three rucks we'll be going in rather tall. The gameplan will be to score the first point and then erect a human pyramid blocking the space between Richmond's behind posts for the duration o

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I'm sure it's been covered before, but why, after all the hoopla about Dunn being reinvented as a backman, including an interview with him on the club website where he goes into detail about how feels

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Viney, Terlich, M. Jones, Frawley, Tapscott, Gawn, Dawes, Howe, Evans, Dunn and McKenzie were all better than Sellar last week.
That's 11 names.

I'm not trying to disprove your overall point that Sellar is crap (he is), but trying to argue Dunn and McKenzie were better than him is like trying to argue life is better in North Korea than Afghanistan.

None of Sellar, Dunn or McKenzie were any good last week, and they're all lucky to still be playing this week.

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I'm not trying to disprove your overall point that Sellar is crap (he is), but trying to argue Dunn and McKenzie were better than him is like trying to argue life is better in North Korea than Afghanistan.

None of Sellar, Dunn or McKenzie were any good last week, and they're all lucky to still be playing this week.

Life probably is better in North Korea than Afghanistan.

But to say that we shouldn't bother distinguishing between the various levels of awfulness currently gracing our team is to miss the point of the process. You are right though; there was hardly any difference between the three.

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Spencer and Kent both omitted from the final team. Troy Davis misses the cut again.

We really have nothing to lose giving Davis and Fitzy a few weeks in the seniors to show if they are worth keeping.

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We really have nothing to lose giving Davis and Fitzy a few weeks in the seniors to show if they are worth keeping.

We essentially have a debut player in James Magner this week, so I'd hold off on them for another week. Fitzy should be in next week and Davis the week after. I don't like dumping all these young guys in the team all at once; it didn't work for Bailey and it probably won't work for us either.

If Jamar hadn't come up for this week, I would have played Fitzy. But since he did I'm happy to wait a little longer on him.

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My issue with Davis is who he comes in for. I think with Frawley, McDonald/Sellar and Garland, we are big enough down back and i would have all those players ahead of Davis. Unfortunately for him, I think he'll have to wait for an injury.

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For anyone questioning the selection of toumpas and jetta (which I am), have a think about the reasons a and alternatives.

With 5 outs, are there two players who deserve to be in more? Particularly when people are calling for 3 or 4 other players to be dropped.

Also, we were horrible last week. Really horrible. Would anyone have been happy if we only made forced changes (injuries and suspensions) and didn't drop anyone?

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Toumpas showed good form at Casey, and besides with him its all about development. So when you're a 4th pick and you've played a good un' in the VFL he should be rewarded with a kick at AFL. He was also selected because he's got nice skills, and god knows we need some of that.

Love that Magner has been selected. I don't care if he's the slowest man in the league. As long as he gets to the stoppages and bullocks his way towards the ball, then he's done enough for me. We need muscle.

Love that about Toumpas and Magner.

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Spencer and Kent both omitted from the final team. Troy Davis misses the cut again.

If Clark had been out (injured) this week it could have been Out: Spencer Davis Clark Kent.

We also have the Barry McKenzie permutation (for those old enough to remember).

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Yes he will. Have you watched the whole game?

From quarter time. He misses tackles and his disposal is mostly deplorable. And my god Blease is soft and his disposal is overrated.

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Any chance that the 26 players tested positive to illicit drugs by the Afl were all from the same team?....like us?

you would assume cocaine would make them less zombish...

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