Just heard on 3aw James is out for 4 weeks. Im guessing with the bye he will miss only 3 games. But geez he is going to be a massive loss next week with Cloke and Lynch up there. Lynch not as much but he would have been great on Cloke.

Bloody hell. Is there any chance our good players can stay on the park.

the will miss the 2 winnable games after the bye

that sucks

Unbelievable....

It happens.

Davis a chance now?

He did it on purpose to get Neeld sacked!

Most last year probably would have said Frawley, Clark, Grimes and T-Mac were in our top 5 players with Jones. There's alot of truth in its not the number of injuries but who they're to. Would nice at least at some stage in the second half of the year to get our best 18 on the park together.

Bloody hell..........it is all Neeld's fault of course, surely. Or Jack Watts.

Bloody hell..........it is all Neeld's fault of course, surely. Or Jack Watts.

Surely a dual conspiracy!

SACK FRAWLEY!!!

Oh, sorry, wrong thread, couldn't help myself.......

It would be interesting to hear the views of posters on how they suggest we try to deal with Cloke next week. What can we do?

It would be especially good to see the suggestions from anti-Neeld posters who will probably blame Neeld for forgetting to clone Frawley when Cloke kicks 10 goals.

What is the injury?

So options?

McDonald - underdone and out of form

Sellar - can match Cloke one-on-one but will killed if he goes for a run

Davis - we haven't seen him yet but you'd think Cloke will be to strong

I love Davis' effort from the couple Casey games I have seen but this match up will be some-what reminiscent of Zac Dawson playing on Ant Rocca... we all remember how that ended up.

Cloke is a beast and can chop up the best when he gets his mojo up. He man handles Chip at times.

I don't mind Sellar as he is a tryer but that's really it. Still he is our only option and I squirm while writing that

Seller on Cloke for mine

Is pederson big enough?

I suppose that 4 weeks is really a 4-6 weeks and you know what that means at mfc

And the good news keeps coming

And the good news keeps coming

DemonOX that is one of the more disturbing avatars, it's freaks me out a little.

I suppose that's the reward for doing a steller job on buddy. Sucks that he'll be missing for games that we'd classify as in the winnable zone. Not to mention Cloke next week.

DemonOX that is one of the more disturbing avatars, it's freaks me out a little.

Gorgoroth, I have never been a good looking rooster so no point in hiding it!

It is what it is!

Options for mine are:

Garland: Our most in form defender. but has shown when matched up against Kennedy in Round 3 that he struggles against the giant forwards.

Sellar: Will get burned when Cloke gets on his bike

Pedersen: Probably gets first crack. Has the height, build and agility to do it. Skill level is the question?

Davis: Would be setting the poor kid up to fail.

Tom McDonald: You'd think would require a week at Casey.

Joel MacDonald:Towled Cloke up in Round 2, 2010 and certainly has the agility and physical agression to go with Cloke. Due to the size difference though you'd need to heavily rely on the like of Garland & Dunn to peel off their men and help Joel out. I reckon he would be worth a look.

What is the injury?

Hamstring

If rumours are to be believed, we may have to learn to play without him there.

This is an opportunity for someone to put their hsnd up and demonstrate that they're the man for the job.

Oh well - one can dream

They should use this month of free time to convince him to sign a contract extension and stop him leaving under free agency next year.

Faaaaaaaark off!

Someone has to stop taking a dump on our head.

With out Frawley we are in trouble!!!!