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MATCH PREVIEW AND TEAM SELECTION - Round 13

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20 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

ok, not great

Thanks Deemented. 

Not what i wanted to hear. 

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    I heard that Tim Smith has done his navicular. Hope it's not true. Has anybody got any info?

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    30 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    I heard that Tim Smith has done his navicular. Hope it's not true. Has anybody got any info?

    Look at the Tim Smith season over thread Red. 

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    2 hours ago, DemonOX said:

    Look at the Tim Smith season over thread Red. 

    Thanks, missed that one.

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    On a slightly different note I see that Josh Kennedy is due to return for West Coast in time for our match next week against them in Perth.

    As that match is a 50/50 chance for us at best, winning this week is all the more important

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    2 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    On a slightly different note I see that Josh Kennedy is due to return for West Coast in time for our match next week against them in Perth.

    As that match is a 50/50 chance for us at best, winning this week is all the more important

    Given they said it would be a miracle for him to get up this week, he may not be a certainty next week. We can only hope.

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    18 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Given they said it would be a miracle for him to get up this week, he may not be a certainty next week. We can only hope.

    and they get a 9 day break against our 6...o well ... such is life

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    2 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    and they get a 9 day break against our 6...o well ... such is life

    Same with the Doggies this week.  This scheduling is woeful. It hurts us and gives  a direct advantage to our opponents.

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    2 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

    Same with the Doggies this week.  This scheduling is woeful. It hurts us and gives  a direct advantage to our opponents.

    yeah... but we are young and raring to go !!!

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    4 hours ago, dl4e said:

    Just put Gawn in the side. We badly need a ruckman.

    We badly need to win the clearances. That's not necessarily the same thing, though of course a fully fit Gawn gives us a much better chance of doing that. Spencer, not so much.

    The best argument for playing Spencer is that he allows us to play Pedo forward & T-Mac back for most of the game, rather than trying to improvise.

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    1 hour ago, Petraccattack said:

    Same with the Doggies this week.  This scheduling is woeful. It hurts us and gives  a direct advantage to our opponents.

    Then we play Swans off a short 6 day break after Perth. Terrible fixturing.

    3 games in a row where are disadvantaged.

    Good that we have a fairly young side.

    Guys like Lewis, Vince, Pedo and Jones will feel it.

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    I'm thinking that Teams have worked out how to play the Dogs much better this year, and along with tackling change refinment

    and a few of their blokes injured and slowing, they are quite beatable.

    I will be looking to see that we are not all going in to the contest again and they have players free around the contest strategically, which caused us to be well beaten amongst other things last time we played them. 

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    I also think the pups game has slowed a little with handballing :unsure:

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    9 hours ago, The Stigga said:

    I would have preferred the article to be entitled 'Melbourne demons set to target playing four quarters of consistent football and not worry about a half-back flanker that had a poor game last week'.

     

     

    Clearly you've never worked in journalism. 

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    8 hours ago, Webber said:

    I reckon this game's all above the shoulders. Depends whether the young Dees are inspired to consolidate on a sniff of finals action, or are still celebrating the high of QB. Tending toward the latter, based on history, but the odds seem out of whack despite this. 

    Nearly all our games are won or lost above the shoulders. 

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    Spencil is in!

    Melbourne team: round 13

    B: O.McDonald, Tom McDonald, Neville Jetta

    HB: Michael Hibberd, Sam Frost, Bernie Vince

    C: Jayden Hunt, Jordan Lewis, Nathan Jones

    HF: Clayton Oliver, Jack Watts, Mitch Hannan

    F: Tom Bugg, Christian Petracca, Jeff Garlett

    Foll: Cam Pedersen, Dom Tyson, Jack Viney

    I/C (from): Christian Salem, Jake Melksham, Sam Weideman, Alex Neal-Bullen, Jake Spencer, Ben Kennedy, James Harmes

    In: Spencer, Kennedy, Weideman

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    Imagine one of Weideman or Spencer will play, not both.

    Not sure who'll go out. But we struggled up forward on Monday, and Spencer would at least give us the option of leaving Pedersen forward and Tom Mac back.

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    3 minutes ago, McQueen said:

    Spencil is in!

    Yet to be seen 'McQueen'...

    1 minute ago, bing181 said:

    Imagine one of Weideman or Spencer will play, not both.

    I doubt either will play unless there is an injury.

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    Thank god. A ruckman! 

    Neal Bullen or Harmes out are my guess. No other changes 

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    4 minutes ago, McQueen said:

    Spencil is in!

    Melbourne team: round 13

    B: O.McDonald, Tom McDonald, Neville Jetta

    HB: Michael Hibberd, Sam Frost, Bernie Vince

    C: Jayden Hunt, Jordan Lewis, Nathan Jones

    HF: Clayton Oliver, Jack Watts, Mitch Hannan

    F: Tom Bugg, Christian Petracca, Jeff Garlett

    Foll: Cam Pedersen, Dom Tyson, Jack Viney

    I/C (from): Christian Salem, Jake Melksham, Sam Weideman, Alex Neal-Bullen, Jake Spencer, Ben Kennedy, James Harmes

    In: Spencer, Kennedy, Weideman

    He is on the extended bench. I suspect we will go in with no change. However if Spencil makes the cut, being both Macs and Frost are named on field I will suggest now that we will be going in too tall against the dogs at Etihad and expect it to cost us the game. Interesting that Kennedy is named in the squad, won the ball well at Casey last week but his disposal was putrid.

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    No Max. Campbell in for Dogs.  Damn.

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    The dogs made heaps of changes. Boyd, Campbell, Cordy, Honeychurch, Libba, Morris, Webb, Williams... Adams, Cloke, English, Roberts all out and the big one... Matty Boyd.

    You'd think one of Cordy and Campbell don't play. Williams and Webb don't get in I reckon either. Boyd will play given how bad we've been against talls.

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