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We are seriously going in undermanned against Saints next week, how unlucky are we to have 3 CHB go down? Id love to see Joel Smith thrown in the deep end to play on McCartin or Bruce, I think we are screwed in this part of the ground.

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    2 minutes ago, dawi03 said:

    We are seriously going in undermanned against Saints next week, how unlucky are we to have 3 CHB go down? Id love to see Joel Smith thrown in the deep end to play on McCartin or Bruce, I think we are screwed in this part of the ground.

    Who's the third?  Garland and Frost are the two, legit talls who will be missing.  Wagner and Hibberd are flankers.

    I reckon we'll be okay.  The Saints are good on the rebound, but I think we can handle them one on one.

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    15 minutes ago, dawi03 said:

    We are seriously going in undermanned against Saints next week, how unlucky are we to have 3 CHB go down? Id love to see Joel Smith thrown in the deep end to play on McCartin or Bruce, I think we are screwed in this part of the ground.

    Agree If Garland has confirmed ACL upgrade Smith and play him He's better than the Mc Bros but everyone else around here thinks they are Christmas!!

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    Tom McDonald, Oscar McDonald, Wagner should be back (he's 189cm Col is 191cm, no biggie).

    Joel Smith will have to come in, surely. Baptism of fire no doubt, but why not.

    Bad luck for Colin, tough to go down with an acl (should he have suffered one). Sure, he has way more experience than Smith, but skill-wise i reckon they are even (with Smith a higher ceiling).

    Tom McDonald on Reiwoldt when he is in the 50, on McCartin all other times. Oscar on on Bruce and Smith on Membrey.

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    Yeah I was counting Hibberd as he's probably the next best to hold down a key position...I'd rather him a floating back though.

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    We played plenty of matches last year with the Macs being our only genuine (194cm+) defenders.  Teams generally don't like going too talk in defence when playing a team/zone defence- you want versatile 186-190cm types (Hibberd,Wagner, Smith, etc)

     

    To say that Smith playing round one would be a baptism of fire is going grossly overrating StKilda.

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    1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Its all cool, We have Pedersen and Keilty.

    Phew! That's a relief. Thanks dazzle

    ;)

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    4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Its all cool, We have Pedersen and Keilty.

    Dazzle, I would play Pedo up forward if anything ( not sure Weeds is ready) and I beleive Smith will now be upgraded and form part of the back half!

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    2 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Its all cool, We have Pedersen and Keilty.

    And if not them then Watts will easily out-body a full-forward. 

    As will Garlett. Garlett is seriouuusssly underrated as a full-back.

     

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    32 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

    Who's the third?  Garland and Frost are the two, legit talls who will be missing.  Wagner and Hibberd are flankers.

    I reckon we'll be okay.  The Saints are good on the rebound, but I think we can handle them one on one.

    but we don't play one-on-one defence. we play diamond zone.

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    If the Dogs can win a flag with Joel Hamling and Fletcher Roberts as key backs surely we can devise something to get us through until reinforcement are ready to come back!

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    Three or so years ago we thought we had a great back line but no forward line and a very average midfield

    At least this year we look like having two out of three !

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    1 hour ago, stevethemanjordan said:

    And if not them then Watts will easily out-hustle a full-forward. 

    As will Garlett. Garlett is seriouuusssly underrated as a full-back.

     

    I have never heard of Garlett as a full-back (nor have I heard of Garland as a crumber in the forward pocket)! Lucky for us it is Garland who is injured and our backline is full strength for Round One with Garlett getting through today's practice match!

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    Whilst I would prefer not to have injuries, with Omac and Tmac the preferred tall backs I would have played Smith ahead of Garland and Frost anyway. I suspect only Hibberd will be missing from Goodwins preferred back six leaving us with missing depth rather than certain starters.

     

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    Hold your horses many gave Garland a slight chance to even play, hibbo did not play last year,  frosty and Wagner are easyly covered, non of those player are overly important , beside hibbo non are first picked players

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    Stick Watts down back. He has a good enough footy IQ to get the job done and he is beautiful by foot to help us rebound.

    I like him up forward more but our stocks down back are thinning.

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    59 minutes ago, don't make me angry said:

    Hold your horses many gave Garland a slight chance to even play, hibbo did not play last year,  frosty and Wagner are easyly covered, non of those player are overly important , beside hibbo non are first picked players

    Completely agree. Hibberd is the only one I have missing from my best 22.  

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    Tall defender 1: Tom Mc
    Tall defender 2: Oscar, Frost, Garland, Keilty, Pedda?
    3rd tall: Wagner, Hibberd*, Frost, J Smith, Garland

    *Hibberd ideally as the 4th tall but could be an option as a third against the right side.

    That's how I'd have our depth chart.

    Depth means you don't just replace one guy with a good option but that you have multiple players who can play a role. I think we are down to our 4th best option at medium defender but I'm keen to see how J Smith goes.

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    1 hour ago, don't make me angry said:

    Hold your horses many gave Garland a slight chance to even play, hibbo did not play last year,  frosty and Wagner are easyly covered, non of those player are overly important , beside hibbo non are first picked players

    Just enquiring as to which talls you'd play R1 on Membrey, Bruce, Paddy and (when forward) Roo?

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    1 hour ago, Moonshadow said:

    Just enquiring as to which talls you'd play R1 on Membrey, Bruce, Paddy and (when forward) Roo?

    Membrey is not a tall milkshake will play on him about same hight 

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    5 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

    Membrey is not a tall milkshake will play on him about same hight 

    Who the hell Is milkshake haha. I'm guessing Melksham?

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