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Changes vs North Melbourne

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8 hours ago, bandicoot said:

I can't see hunt playing. I think the club has a policy of 1 week off after a concussion regardless how the player is feeling. Hunt had a big hit and seemed to be out for a while.

stretch in for hunt 

My only change as well. I dont want to see Hannan go out and  I think just for safety, give Hunt a week more to recover. Stretch is quick and a quality user.

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    15 hours ago, doug williams said:

    Completely off topic : can someone tell me how to access games while I am out of the country from this Saturday please?

    I have recently come back from Italy and Spain and watched all the games on AFL Live. I had previously joined and purchased a months subscription whilst I was away. I was watching from an Apple I PAD. Viewing was a little stop and go but otherwise OK. Good luck!

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    17 hours ago, doug williams said:

    Completely off topic : can someone tell me how to access games while I am out of the country from this Saturday please?

    You can join this by month or whatever. It's the AFL's international streaming service. Works well.

    https://www.watchafl.com.au

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    I too expect North to go tall.  Preuss will come in to try and stretch us ala Hawthorn.

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    2 hours ago, ProperDee said:

    I too expect North to go tall.  Preuss will come in to try and stretch us ala Hawthorn.

    I hope he does - we'll kill them.  I think Goldy is enough of a handful along with Brown.

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    3 hours ago, ProperDee said:

    I too expect North to go tall.  Preuss will come in to try and stretch us ala Hawthorn.

    Adelaide are tall and we seemed way too fast for them. 

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    3 hours ago, Fifty-5 said:

    I hope he does - we'll kill them.  I think Goldy is enough of a handful along with Brown.

    They also have Waite coming back, so I don't think Pruess will play 

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    5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I'm tipping Melksham in for Hunt is the only change.

    Melksham didn't play last week.  I think Hunt comes up by the sounds of the injury report but if not ANB comes in. 

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    Tough to make changes after such a great win. I agree we should go in unchanged. 

     

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    47 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I'm tipping Melksham in for Hunt is the only change.

    Harmes or anb will come in before melksham

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    13 minutes ago, deeflog said:

    Harmes or anb will come in before melksham

    Stretch my preferred option hadn't done a lot wrong! 

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    9 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    why don't we just leave it up to he doctors.

    they may not be infallible but they are ten times better informed and knowledgeable about this than we are

    That is quite an arrogant comment. We have a lot of specialists here you know.... :)

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    1 minute ago, jnrmac said:

    That is quite an arrogant comment. We have a lot of specialists here you know.... :)

    arrogance can be very becoming sometimes jnr, and there are certainly some here who excel in it :lol: 

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    I would put Wagner back for Hunt.  Hunt was hit too hard to get over in a week.

    Weidemann and Hannan are doing a job for the coach and nobody tall is within cooee at Casey.  The coach and his gameplan are a revelation.

    Harmes got more praise from Plapp and I expect him to come in instead of ANB.  Sounds good with the backline settled not requiring ANB running off HB and prefering more grunt up forward and in the middle.  Melksham is a very naughty boy and needs to put in at Casey on a horror day first.

    In Harmes  Out Hunt

    The HUN suggests that there is no one at North worth tagging - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/in-a-stats-special-we-reveal-the-victims-and-survivors-of-footys-dark-arts-tagging/news-story/cdb045084d2ab0a7d2bf5b3f08f219d8   Please keep Vince in the forward half.

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    4 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I'm tipping Melksham in for Hunt is the only change.

    I was having such a good week...

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    Early reports were that Hunt was coming along well, the 8 day break would also help in this regard. I'll trust that the doctors will make the correct call for Jayden.

    Should he go out it I would say either Melksham or ANB to come in. 

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    52 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    Just happy not to see that pain in the rrrse Harvey line up against us this time. 

    Agreed.

    To a lesser extent, the same could be said about Lindsay Thomas. Always seems to kick goals against us.

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    4 hours ago, deeflog said:

    Harmes or anb will come in before melksham

    Dont think so. Melk played a blinder after getting dropped. If anything a week out due ti being reported will freshen him up. As s half back flanker who can run and carry sn obvious replacement for hunt

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    Didn't Melksham play in the middle at Casey? I can understand the point if they wanted him to get his hands on the ball and improve contested/tackles etc. but I don't know much relevance there is in terms of his blinding stats as a criteria for him being selected for the back-half.

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    7 hours ago, Skuit said:

    Didn't Melksham play in the middle at Casey? I can understand the point if they wanted him to get his hands on the ball and improve contested/tackles etc. but I don't know much relevance there is in terms of his blinding stats as a criteria for him being selected for the back-half.

    I didnt say blinding stats. I said he played a blinder.Plapp was effusive in his praise of melk after that game. Compare that review to this weeks whre he was mych more tempered about harmes despite him getting 40 plus touches

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    22 minutes ago, binman said:

    I didnt say blinding stats. I said he played a blinder.Plapp was effusive in his praise of melk after that game. Compare that review to this weeks whre he was mych more tempered about harmes despite him getting 40 plus touches

    Sorry Bin - creative expression. And it wasn't aimed solely at your post but more of a general question. If someone plays a blinder in a position we're not seeking to fill does it undermine the selection rationale for a different position? They obviously played him there and so wanted him to work on certain things (or is under consideration for a shift), but I don't think playing a blinder from the middle justifies a defensive spot. Still, I speculated earlier here that they might put Melk back in for Wagner (assuming Hunt was fit to play).

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