Match Preview and Team Selection - Round 4

[jnrmac 20,286]

Who rucks if Spencer doesn't? Fitzy? Gawn is injured, King is a rookie, Jamar hasn't had a pre season and playing first VFL possibly this weekend.

Don't try logic with that guy. Its not worth your sanity.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

can not believe f-log and s-natch are censored :/

Figures, You do one while dreaming about the other!!

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

How spencil gets a game after having his opponent get 60 Hitouts is totally mystifying!!!

Get Pedo and or Georgio in Ruck as it will be wet and bring in another in and under! Jetta desperately unlucky not to get a gig, should have replaced Bail.

You must be on better [censored] than Biffen Picket!!

[Earl Hood 6,151]

Those Carlton omissions are a massive eye opener.

Surely we are a chance. SURELY.

Short memories, remember last week or the week before?

[Tatu 416]

Waite is pretty much their Dawes. He just straightens them up structurally. It's a massive call to drop him. Very fishy. And Gartlett - dropping your best small forward for a very likely rainy game - it doesn't make much sense to me. Tanking this early also doesn't make much sense, but who knows?

jeez... I hope their tanking, because I need to see a win....

[jumbo returns 6,741]

You must be on better [censored] than Biffen Picket!!

Is that f-log or s-natch?

[P-man 13,367]

don't say it p-man you'll put the mozz on us

We're no chance.

There we are, all evened up.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

Is that f-log or s-natch?

Makes no difference to Biff.

[jumbo returns 6,741]

We're no chance.

There we are, all evened up.

Thanks

[Bombay Airconditioning 6,477]

Tackle tackle tackle......no excuses.

[daisycutter 29,897]

if its wet i hope they play wet weather footy and not that ring around the rosey shyte like last week

first to the ball and move it forward as quick as possible

as long as players down the ground know that's the plan they can structure accordingly

[Return to Glory 8,473]

This game reads like a reenactment of the Kreuser Cup

[picket fence 18,022]

Call me as mad as Queenie in Blackadder, Simple as Lord Percy, Brainless as Baldrick, but I'm going to put $ 20.00 on the Dees to win at " Edmund Blackadder Odds"!

Anyone else game for the upset of the round possibility?

[Dockett 32 1,239]

ok I think you are mad.

[Pates 9,680]

Murphy is the only top-class mid on the ground, if Jordie can do a job on him then that can bring their midfield down to our level.

Nothing would give me more pleasure in the world right now than for us to notch up our first win against the blues. It's unfortunate that I go into every game of ours now with very little hope of winning, but suppose the dream is still alive in my brain.

Dawes straight back in is a big call from Roos, my thoughts are if Fitzy was doing some kind of a job he would've held off but Fitzy's game is looking totally bereft of confidence so sending him to Casey will hopefully give him a chance to clunk some marks and kick some goals.

I agree with some of the sentiments on here about Pedo, he looks better down back than forward. Although Dunn has been doing a good job down back he would be a better option forward IMO. Also interesting to see Roos persist with Chip forward, perhaps having Dawes will help him to lead to the right places.

JKH has to play the entire game, he almost changed the game last week and looks like he's starting to settle into the speed of the game. Plan to sub him out and I'd have Evans as the sub.

I really hate Carlton, it sickens me that we were dragged through the tanking mud but they somehow avoided it despite them being the first to blatantly do it. They are No. 1 on my hate list.

Play like Demons this week, give them bruises they'll be nursing for weeks!

[What 18,810]

they dropped Waite and Garlett, two guys that usually kill us, at least thats what my memories tell me

We will win this game

[Jack7 528]

Call me as mad as Queenie in Blackadder, Simple as Lord Percy, Brainless as Baldrick, but I'm going to put $ 20.00 on the Dees to win at " Edmund Blackadder Odds"!

Anyone else game for the upset of the round possibility?

Yeah,i've got $10 on us 1-24 points @ $7.65

Bit of fun and they are vulnerable and under pressure.

[titan_uranus 25,191]

Yeah,i've got $10 on us 1-24 points @ $7.65

Bit of fun and they are vulnerable and under pressure.

I saw those odds - surely if you think Melbourne are going to win, you'd also realise that we're absolutely 0% chance of winning by more than 24 points (or 39, for which the odds are even longer). Good bet from you.

[Frosty Demon 153]

We are in this game up to our eye balls. At least if the players want it bad enough. The new recruits will want a win, Roosy included. My concerns as usual are what we are going to get from Frawley, Grimes and Watts. Would like to see Nicholson included, I like his pace and disposal and believe he should get more of a go. Lets take em on!

[P-man 13,367]

JKH to play from the start please. Just let the lad build some confidence as the game wears on and then blitz em.

[DeeSpencer 26,409]

We are in this game up to our eye balls. At least if the players want it bad enough. The new recruits will want a win, Roosy included. My concerns as usual are what we are going to get from Frawley, Grimes and Watts. Would like to see Nicholson included, I like his pace and disposal and believe he should get more of a go. Lets take em on!

You like Nicholson's disposal? You really are a sucker for punishment!

Wet weather footy, hard physical stuff, it really is a day for Watts to hang out on a wing and watch the minutes go past. I hope we see something different from him.

[Pates 9,680]

Wet weather footy, hard physical stuff, it really is a day for Watts to hang out on a wing and watch the minutes go past. I hope we see something different from him.

I've got Watts in my SC team, I was a hair's breath away from trading him but decided not to at the last minute. Good thing too as I had LeCras so needed to get rid of him, still don't make me regret it Jack!

[Go the Biff 3,471]

How spencil gets a game after having his opponent get 60 Hitouts is totally mystifying!!!

Get Pedo and or Georgio in Ruck as it will be wet and bring in another in and under! Jetta desperately unlucky not to get a gig, should have replaced Bail.

1. Yes, Spencer was beaten but Mumford is in amazing form at the moment and at his best is one of the best few rucks in the comp

2. Don't be too carried away by the 60 hitouts. When you have as many stoppages as that game did, someone has to get the resultant tap

3. As others have pointed out, our ruck cupboard is bare. We need Spencer on Saturday. Personally I hope someone takes to his jocks with pepper spray & the big unit goes postal on Warnock who I feel is suspect when it really gets physical.

[RalphiusMaximus 6,106]

Some people need to remember that Jetta is a rookie this year. We can't play him no matter how well he's doing in the reserves.

I am a little surprised that Fitz was dropped. It may be better for him to go back to Casey and play an easier game, but we could use him playing as the second ruck. Leaving Spencer to go against Warnock all game is a big call and it still leaves us a little short in the forward line. I'd much rather have Fitz forward/2nd ruck and use Frawley as the second or third tall defender to run off and create up the ground. Still, we'll have to see what happens on the day I guess.

[Adam The God 30,634]

Some people need to remember that Jetta is a rookie this year. We can't play him no matter how well he's doing in the reserves.

I am a little surprised that Fitz was dropped. It may be better for him to go back to Casey and play an easier game, but we could use him playing as the second ruck. Leaving Spencer to go against Warnock all game is a big call and it still leaves us a little short in the forward line. I'd much rather have Fitz forward/2nd ruck and use Frawley as the second or third tall defender to run off and create up the ground. Still, we'll have to see what happens on the day I guess.

I'm inclined to agree, RM, but the one thing that makes me think differently is that it will rain. It'll be a day for the little blokes. I think we can get away with less KPPs. The ball will fall to the deck the majority of the time and we'll have to be clean for once.