Match Preview and Team Selection - Round 22

[chook fowler 19,458]

Would like to see Jamar as sub and see how Gawn and Fitz go.

[Wunders 397]

Apart from talent are the talls picked any diff to others height wise.

Pedo (193cm/96kg) - Gunston (193cm/84kg) Brown (195cm/93kg)

Dawes (193cm/105kg) - Roughhead (193cm/100kg) McGoven (195cm/96kg)

Jamar (198cm/101kg) - BaileyMcEvoy (200cm/103kg) Schofield (196cm/92kg)

Fitz (200cm/99kg) - Hale (201cm/102kg) Mackenzie (196cm/98kg)

Gawn (208cm/111kg) - BuddyCeglar (204cm/97kg) Lycett (203cm/103kg) or cox (203cm/104kg) or Nat 201cm/107kg)

All similar heights so its not like it cant work.

Lets just trust the match committee, Ive got a funny feeling they know slightly more than any Demonlanders.

Bored so had a bit of a plug and play with the current dee/ hawks forwards and eagles defenders to match for height (see above).

I found it interesting that dawes is 5kg heavier than roughhead..

Both gawn and dawes really shouldn't ever get beater 1v1 being so heavy.. (which hits on the fast ball movement to a 1v1). Unfortunately both Gawn and Dawes seem to mark best when leading, not when stationary (in my point of view). E.g. gawn in a 1v1, almost seems to be bent over trying to wrestle so loses any height advantage most of the time (he probably need to bend over to get a forearm in the back as its that far down to an opponents back).

[Scoop Junior 3,471]

There is no guarantee that they are going to line up as named. Our interchange includes Bail, Kent, Salem and Mitchie and i expect to see them feature in the forward structure as well as rotating through the midfield.

Of course. I'm just saying that as a proportion of the 22 players named we have too many talls. Whether Fitz, Pedersen, etc. play forward or elsewhere or rest on the bench, we are still robbed of overall run.

[LegsLeoncelli 162]

all i ask is we kick 10 goals

A 333% increase on last week? That's a big ask...

[DemonOX 8,791]

I can hardly wait.

I'll be so high on post operation drugs I'll probably think they are all magical uncoordinated giraffes.

Do u have some to spare? I might come and join u.

[bjDee 1,249]

Do u have some to spare? I might come and join u.

Pass the dutchie from the left hand side...

[chook fowler 19,458]

Bet Bennell plays a blinder.

[P-man 13,366]

From BF. Too good not to share:

"Can only imagine Roosy ripped the almightiest of bongs before team selection and selected Fitzy on the belief that he was Big Bird. Seriously at this point I'd take the aforementioned T. Tumbleweed over any of our players. At least it isn't afraid to back into packs.

And how is it in 2014, I can go down to the shops and buy peanut butter tim tams and a vanilla coke slurpee, but I still look at the Dees team for the week and see "IN: ROHAN BAIL". I've tried asking Burgatron on the MFC website but all he responds with is "it's a tough one".

I swear to god if someone actually chose to support this club with a clear and functional fully formed adult brain rather than from being indoctrinated from birth like I was, they'd be considered batsh!t crazy.

Why do we do it to ourselves Melbourne supporters? All we ever have to look forward to is the draft and we always manage to c0¢k it up! I remember heralding Cale Morton as the next Robbie Flower on this very site six years ago now.. I actually said that I kid you not. This club has destroyed my brain and now even worse, it's destroying my enthusiasm. But hooray, Cam Pederson is back in the team.

F#$%ing hell I need a cigarette. and I don't even smoke."

Edited August 22, 2014 by P-man

[titan_uranus 25,016]

This is how I see the talls situation:

Pedersen plays back - McDonald, Frawley and Pedersen take Kennedy, Darling and Lycett.

Gawn and Jamar rotate between ruck and FF, Dawes plays CHF.

Fitzpatrick is meanwhile to try to play like Blicavs - tall, but focusing more on agility than on marking/power.

Will it work? No.

[mrtwister 652]

I can hardly wait.

I'll be so high on post operation drugs I'll probably think they are all magical uncoordinated giraffes.

I thought Spencer was injured.

[DemonOX 8,791]

For the love of god and for all our sanity please, please "SHOW SOMETHING" MFC.

Edited August 23, 2014 by DemonOX

[old dee 23,788]

For the love of god and for all our sanity please, please "SHOW SOMETHING" MFC.

There is a smell of utter desperation in that DO

[What 18,810]

For the love of god and for all our sanity please, please "SHOW SOMETHING" MFC.

we almost rolled Port in Adelaide a few weeks ago

Makes last weeks debacle even more depressing but in a few hours time theres one again chance for redemption and to bury another hoodoo

For once i hope the players can give us some joy

[DemonOX 8,791]

There is a smell of utter desperation in that DO

There's no smell mate it's an absolute stench to it.

I a very desperate for the boys to show something.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,239]

Fitzy is the selection that really baffles me. He's done bugger all at Casey. Had a rest last week. He's hardly in blistering form.

[Deecisive 1,709]

Strangest team we've selected all season. Last time we went tall it was a disaster. Mind you last time we went small it was as well.

Just leave it at ...last time.

[bing181 9,219]

Fitzy is the selection that really baffles me. He's done bugger all at Casey. Had a rest last week. He's hardly in blistering form.

Judging by reports, he's actually been pretty solid at Casey for a while now.

[Deecisive 1,709]

Fitzy selection maybe his audition for a place on next years roster. While he has not done a lot at Casey, who has, and with the crappy delivery he has had there maybe he can do better today, though our delivery is not exactly elite. Our problem is always going to be the West coasts midfield and rebounding half back line. We cannot afford to play an extra man on the ball if it means they have an extra in the backline, if that happens Hurn and others will kill us.

[Jack It 1]

Will be there today and I hope that there is still a contest to be watched after quarter time. The intensity in the first 3 minutes will tell me everything I need to know. I have no plans of hanging round to watch some limp wristed effort like I saw when I travelled to watch us play Brisbane.

[Gorgoroth 12,949]

I'm really thinking of watching the cats/hawks game and watching the black box tick over next to the WCE.

[bjDee 1,249]

Yep - Fitzy / Fritz has done OK at Casey, especially when he has been the sole ruckman.

But to me he is between 2 worlds. He can hold his own in the ruck and up forward at Casey. He can be the main big man for the whole Casey team. He can be the standard bearer when things get tough. He shows pace, dedication, persistence, resilience and can see the whole game out. He deserves to be tried at the next level.

But put him up into AFL land? Overwhelmed, underperforms, gets starved of opportunities, has 1-2 cameo performances in a game, and really shows nothing like the dominance he can display at Casey. It's disappointing, but I've seen it enough to believe he doesn't have a future in the big league. Yet with only 2 rounds to go, it's not enough of a trial period for Roos et al to give him to show what he can do.

[Trisul 664]

A 333% increase on last week? That's a big ask...

A 233% increase. However we only had one less scoring shot last week than the week prior when we kicked nine goals.

Doable but unlikely at Subi with WC chasing finals.