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From the AFL site - Dees favour hard bodies for opener: Mahoney

Looks like we're going to cement our best 22 and be competitive (for membership drive) during the NAB cup rather than trialing the new kids...

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    from the AFL website:

    COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU

    NAB Challenge matches to be streamed via club websites

    — Brisbane v St Kilda, Moreton Bay Sports Complex, Saturday

    — Adelaide v North Melbourne, Port Lincoln, Sunday

    — GWS v Gold Coast at Blacktown (March 7)

    — Port Adelaide v West Coast at Norwood Oval (March 8)

    — Western Bulldogs v Melbourne at Eureka Stadium (March 14)

    — Sydney v Fremantle at Drummoyne Oval (March 15)

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    29 in the squad. Up to 26 to play I believe.

    No Trengove, Petracca, Howe, Vince, Neal-Bullen and unlikely King.

    That means 38 left on the list. 12 of whom will miss.

    I'd suggest Watts probably misses as well, that takes it back to 11.

    Best 26 at the moment is probably:

    FB: Jetta Frost Dunn

    HB: Garland McDonald Salem

    C: Lumumba Jones Jones

    HF: Kent Dawes JKH

    FF: Garlett Hogan Pedersen

    Foll: Jamar Tyson Cross

    Int: Gawn Viney Grimes Michie Newton Toumpas

    S: Stretch Riley

    Unlucky: McKenzie, Brayshaw, Terlich, Fitzy, Spencer, White, Vandenberg, Harmes, Hunt, Oscar Mc, Bail

    From that list I'd be keen to see Fitzy, Vandenberg and Bail play as they might be round 1 options, so if there are other injuries or senior players rested then get them in.

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    It's not surprising. We can't do a Hawthorn and rest half the list in the knowledge we are already ahead of most of the pack. We need to get our guys out there and playing to get off to as good of a start as we can, which I'm hoping we can do!

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    Watts won't feature against Freo

    He never does.

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    I was hoping the club would follow this approach. The very last thing we need is to be belted by Freo in a meaningless game.

    We don't need to give young players a run, we have a good supply of hardened bodies that we have imported. And Roos refuses to "burn" junior talent so that he can be sure

    they are fully ready for the rigours of the season proper.

    Our supporters need something to hope for and have confidence that the coming season will see improvement all round.

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    I was hoping the club would follow this approach. The very last thing we need is to be belted by Freo in a meaningless game.

    We don't need to give young players a run, we have a good supply of hardened bodies that we have imported. And Roos refuses to "burn" junior talent so that he can be sure

    they are fully ready for the rigours of the season proper.

    Our supporters need something to hope for and have confidence that the coming season will see improvement all round.

    Hate to be the one to say it, but the flip side is the risk of getting beaten by Freo's second stringers...

    Practice match or not, you'd want a respectable performance from a full strength side.

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    from the AFL website:

    COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU

    NAB Challenge matches to be streamed via club websites

    — Brisbane v St Kilda, Moreton Bay Sports Complex, Saturday

    — Adelaide v North Melbourne, Port Lincoln, Sunday

    — GWS v Gold Coast at Blacktown (March 7)

    — Port Adelaide v West Coast at Norwood Oval (March 8)

    — Western Bulldogs v Melbourne at Eureka Stadium (March 14)

    — Sydney v Fremantle at Drummoyne Oval (March 15)

    Glad to see the AFL have done a u-turn on this issue.

    The admin has shown that nothing has changed and they don't give a flying about fans when they tried to stop such streams as "they would not be the quality that our fans have come to expect". They were happier for us to have nothing.

    Obviously the public backlash has been strong enough to make the sods change their stance on this.

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    Garland frost jetta

    Dunn mcdonald grimes

    Lumumba viney m.jones

    Bail hogan kent

    Garlett dawes gawn

    Jamar n.jones tyson

    Int: salem, toumpas, newton, jkh, cross, michie, pedersen, mckenzie

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