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TEAM SELECTION AND MATCH PREVIEW - ROUND SEVEN

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1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

will we notice much of a difference ?

don't think it will affect the reporting and commentary on demonland, bub :)

 
31 minutes ago, willmoy said:

One gets used to reading sentences with commas,semicolons and colons in them.

One does miss the Oxford comma...

One gets used to reading sentences with commas,semicolons, and colons in them.

7 minutes ago, frankie_d said:

One does miss the Oxford comma...

One gets used to reading sentences with commas,semicolons, and colons in them.

Thankie Frankie.....

 
1 hour ago, Petraccattack said:

HEAD TO HEAD

Overall Melbourne 75 wins Hawthorn 85 wins 

 

 

This is surprising.   Felt it would be more like Hawthorn 125 vs Melbourne 75

Hawthorn were the laughing stock of the competition until the 1960's.

41 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Hawthorn were the laughing stock of the competition until the 1960's.

This is what my old man tells me too.


Saw my mate last night who is a development coach at Hawthorn. I told him I'd see him at the footy on Sunday and his response was "go deeeees". And I thought "right, looking forward to beating your mob, mate". Haha.

In: Hogan, Stretch, Kent, Wagner

Out: Jake Melksham

I/C (from): Christian Salem, Dom Tyson, Billy Stretch, Dean Kent, Alex Neal-Bullen, Oscar McDonald, Josh Wagner

Surprised but pleased to see Melksham out. He just hasn't done enough to stay in.

A bit of culling of the bench.

 

In would have to be Hogan and Wagner, Wagner to replace Melksham, stuffed if who goes out for Hogan, maybe ANB?

 
4 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

In: Hogan, Stretch, Kent, Wagner

Out: Jake Melksham

I/C (from): Christian Salem, Dom Tyson, Billy Stretch, Dean Kent, Alex Neal-Bullen, Oscar McDonald, Josh Wagner

Surprised but pleased to see Melksham out. He just hasn't done enough to stay in.

A bit of culling of the bench.

 

Not wrong. That's  a pretty handy bench.

You would think that Salem and Tyson are the only locks.

Do we go small with Wags or tall with Oscar? 

I think ANB will be dropped and Billy will come in but it could also be Kent...

Bring on tomorrow night!

So much for Goody playing favourites with Melksham.  Thats a relief.

 


4 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

In: Hogan, Stretch, Kent, Wagner

Out: Jake Melksham

I/C (from): Christian Salem, Dom Tyson, Billy Stretch, Dean Kent, Alex Neal-Bullen, Oscar McDonald, Josh Wagner

Surprised but pleased to see Melksham out. He just hasn't done enough to stay in.

A bit of culling of the bench.

 

From that bench I would play Salem, Stretch, Kent and Wagner. But with TMac possibly doing more ruck duties they may want Oscar in again. And ANB keeps getting high praise so Kent would be hard pressed to get in. I'm a fan of Tyson despite his flaws but he has had too many chances, needs to earn his spot now.

Will be interesting to see who makes the cut on the interchange. 

Salem - he is too good not to have in the team

Tyson - he gets too much of the ball to leave out.

Oscar McDonald - I believe he was very good last week. did his job and I did not notice too many clangers. it may be between he and Wagner. his selection could hinge on the way want to play his Brother in this game.

Wagner - I am a fan of the way he plays and i could see him replacing Melksham and/or OMac

Stretch, Kent and ANB may be fighting for the last bench spot.

For mine, Salem, Tyson Wagner and Stretch

1 minute ago, Hell Bent said:

So JKH gets another run! I hope he has a big game otherwise might be the last we see of him for a while.

Yeah named on the ground... gotta hold a mark sooner or later.

4 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

So much for Goody playing favourites with Melksham.  Thats a relief.

 

With that in mind.

Doing 'enough' ...isnt... enough.

A few others might keep that i mind as they look over their shoulder .


4 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

So much for Goody playing favourites with Melksham.  Thats a relief.

Yep!  Big tick for Goody in my book - everyone has to earn their spot, no exceptions!

How did JKH retain his spot? Melksham had been on the fringe for weeks, but JKH should have been dropped first.

 

1 minute ago, Adzman said:

How did JKH retain his spot? Melksham had been on the fringe for weeks, but JKH should have been dropped first.

 

Agreed.  All seven on the bench are better options.

This week is his last chance to deliver, or hes gone.  

1 hour ago, frankie_d said:

One does miss the Oxford comma...

One gets used to reading sentences with commas,semicolons, and colons in them.

and preferably with spaces between commas, semicolons, and colons, and whatever follows any punctuation mark!

25 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Agreed.  All seven on the bench are better options.

This week is his last chance to deliver, or hes gone.  

You'd think  this is the message.


2 minutes ago, Adzman said:

How did JKH retain his spot? Melksham had been on the fringe for weeks, but JKH should have been dropped first.

 

 

He got mentioned in Goody`s post match that he is doing what he is asked to do, whatever that may be. I`d suggest it is pressure acts / forward pressure, and that is what Kent has been lacking and why he got dropped

He does need a big game though I agree.

4 minutes ago, Adzman said:

How did JKH retain his spot? Melksham had been on the fringe for weeks, but JKH should have been dropped first.

 

Probably because Goodwin is the coach, and not you, nor the Demonland, nor Demonology masses.

B: Michael Hibberd, Tom McDonald, Neville Jetta

HB: Jayden Hunt, Sam Frost, Jordan Lewis

C: Nathan Jones, Clayton Oliver, Tom Bugg

HF: Christian Petracca, Jack Watts, Mitch Hannan

F: Jeff Garlett, Jesse Hogan, Jay Kennedy-Harris

Foll: Cam Pedersen, Bernie Vince, Jack Viney

I/C (from): Christian Salem, Dom Tyson, Billy Stretch, Dean Kent, Alex Neal-Bullen, Oscar McDonald, Josh Wagner

 

This is a good team and I, for one, could not argue with the elections. Bugg and JKH back up for a second game and the structure of the 7 man interchange makes sure they understand that there are quality options available to the selector if they do not do as required.

Take any three out of the I/C and add to them the critical injured players such as Gawn, Brayshaw, Joel Smith, Spencer and VDB and we have serious depth to play with.

(,,,....:::;;;; place as required above)

 
11 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

In: Hogan, Stretch, Kent, Wagner

Out: Jake Melksham

Surprised but pleased to see Melksham out. 

He just hasn't done enough to stay in.

 

I don't think Kent will play. They're [censored]-teasing him so he works hard this week IMO. 

Hogan is named in the starting 18 and I suspect Stretch will get the nod for JKH. Wagner might play for Oscar too. Be interesting to see.

1 minute ago, A F said:

I don't think Kent will play. They're [censored]-teasing him so he works hard this week IMO. 

Hogan is named in the starting 18 and I suspect Stretch will get the nod for JKH. Wagner might play for Oscar too. Be interesting to see.

JKH is named in a forward pocket.

You know how team selection works right? Starting 18 are the starting 18. The interchange are the ones that are up in the air.


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