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I wouldn't have dropped the Toump and kept him instead of JKH. I saw last week as a setback when he had been building on form and was hoping he'd get some benefit of the doubt. I can live with it though.

The rest are logical and expected changes.

Best of luck to Harmes.

JKH is a different type of player, but much better.

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I knew that record cold temperatures were on the way but I didn't know hell was freezing over

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Pity Frost isn't playing.

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Quite severe weather forecast including hail......I think some of the players will need to be careful in these conditions, such as Jack Viney who may mistake Joe Daniher for an icy pole and eat him. .

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JKH is a different type of player, but much better.

I like JKH being in as, with Garlett, he can provide some footy nous at the feet of the talls and some pressure on their backmen when they have the ball. He may not get much of the footy at the moment but he can still exert some influence and class in to the side.

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Aaron is also in back! So is JKH!

Other selections:

I/C: Jay Kennedy-Harris, James Harmes, Aaron vandenBerg, Dom Tyson

EMG: Rohan Bail, Mark Jamar, Jack Fitzpatrick

IN: Heritier Lumumba, Jay Kennedy-Harris, James Harmes, Aaron vandenBerg

OUT: Rohan Bail, Jake Spencer, Jimmy Toumpas, Matt Jones

NEW: James Harmes

That Jimmy is not named as an emergency...must mean he has work to do...

Mind made up!

Toumpas Hnmm !

Played 4 maybe 5 good games in 3 years!

Happy to trade at years end!

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I would have liked Toump to have another run, but he has averaged 71% time on ground this year, and so is clearly a player who is still being eased into the pace. Having a first gamer (Harmes), a first game back from a hammy (AVB) and a first game back at AFL level (JKH) into the team, they may have needed to balance the planned game time as well. Anyone else we dropped would have been more like 80+%.

Edit: in case anyone was wondering: http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tr-melbourne-demons?year=2015&rt=TA&st=TG

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Bang Bang Bang Redleg

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Probably our best team on paper since the Richmond game.

Disappointed for Toump but past draft number is irrelevant, on form he's out of credits and I think JKH will offer more on a wet MCG track.

Seeing Bail, M.Jones and Spencer all out is bliss.

Brayshaw and vandenBerg in tandem in the wet too. That didn't look likely a few days ago.

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Probably our best team on paper since the Richmond game.

Disappointed for Toump but past draft number is irrelevant, on form he's out of credits and I think JKH will offer more on a wet MCG track.

Seeing Bail, M.Jones and Spencer all out is bliss.

Brayshaw and vandenBerg in tandem in the wet too. That didn't look likely a few days ago.

Love these changes !! :)

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I wouldn't have dropped the Toump and kept him instead of JKH. I saw last week as a setback when he had been building on form and was hoping he'd get some benefit of the doubt. I can live with it though.

The rest are logical and expected changes.

Best of luck to Harmes.

He had a down one at Geelong as well 'Nasher'.

I think Toump is a real confidence player and he has let the Montagna goal effect him. He really needs to get over this type of thing or he will struggle through his AFL career.

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Although the Essendon crowd is claiming that the sudden decline in form is related to the ASADA/WADA goings on, it's interesting to note that the Bombers have only introduced one new player to date in 2015. They've been relying on the same old, same olds - possibly to some extent because of limitations on recruiting with other clubs reluctant to trade for their players but a large measure of the problem seems to be the reluctance to introduce new blood to an aging list.

And we have 6 players who had not played an AFL game before this year.

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Nascent Redleg

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Perhaps i've got a touch of MFCSS but I'm feeling very uneasy about this weekend.

Harmes 0 games

Neal-Bullen 3 games

Stretch 5 games

Vandenberg 10 games

Hogan 11 games

Brayshaw 13 games

That's a lot of inexperienced players, albeit a some very good ones in there. Given the predicted weather conditions, I can't help but think a selection of Grimes/Newton/Riley/Michie may have been a wise inclusion at the expense of one or a couple of the younger guys.

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Goodvibes Redleg

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Perhaps i've got a touch of MFCSS but I'm feeling very uneasy about this weekend.

Harmes 0 games

Neal-Bullen 3 games

Stretch 5 games

Vandenberg 10 games

Hogan 11 games

Brayshaw 13 games

That's a lot of inexperienced players, albeit a some very good ones in there. Given the predicted weather conditions, I can't help but think a selection of Grimes/Newton/Riley/Michie may have been a wise inclusion at the expense of one or a couple of the younger guys.

The good news Nascent is that the bottom three on that list play like they've played a hundred games.

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I think we need to play for the future. M.Jones, Bail, are definitely not, grimes , Newton, Michael & Riley ....maybe. We need to look at some of our Rookies at AFL level & let's be honest.....we are definitely good enough to beat this team. If all is good above the shoulders we will win. We are the best team by far & as much as we supporters are all so mentally scarred by previous years I don't believe this team is.....So Go Dees

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The good news Nascent is that the bottom three on that list play like they've played a hundred games.

The other good part is that Harmes, Vandenberg and Brayshaw bring fresh legs which the team will need after the Darwin game.

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Nascent Redleg

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The good news Nascent is that the bottom three on that list play like they've played a hundred games.

This is true and those three are best 22 in my book. Neal-Bullen and Harmes have strong contested ball winning games so perhaps I'm fretting without reason.

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