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Match Preview and Team Selection - Round 22

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10 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I’m a Garlett fan and still a believer... I’d like to see a final bench of:

Melksham, Kent, Garlett and Fritsch.

Plenty of run and pace there.

Yep that would be the bench for me. JKH didn’t do a lot wrong but Kent is the more damaging of the two.

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    Does anyone know (roughly) what the dimensions of the oval are over there?

    Is it skinny, wide, long..???

    Comparable to the G or Etihad?

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    3 minutes ago, P-man said:

    Yep that would be the bench for me. JKH didn’t do a lot wrong but Kent is the more damaging of the two.

    Can't see Kent coming into a fwd line with Garlett and Spargo 

    JKH stays in and Garlett out 

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    6 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Does anyone know (roughly) what the dimensions of the oval are over there?

    Is it skinny, wide, long..???

    Comparable to the G or Etihad?

    *Similar to the MCG

    146874-perth-stadium.jpg&hash=6c7288eb5a

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    4 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    *Similar to the MCG

    146874-perth-stadium.jpg&hash=6c7288eb5a

    Closer to etihad than the G, width wise

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    5 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    *Similar to the MCG

    146874-perth-stadium.jpg&hash=6c7288eb5a

    Not the answer I was hoping for...

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    1 minute ago, Mickey said:

    Closer to etihad than the G, width wise

    Much closer to the answer I was hoping for!

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    Spargo is obviously playing. Can’t understand it - he looked way out of his depth last week. The selectors still have me shaking my head. I believe Kent will play at the expense of either Jeff or JKH.

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    21 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Not the answer I was hoping for...

    Yeah. I guess i got caught up in it being similar dimensions to the MCG than where we've played them in the past at Subi. Which is a little on the agenda in how we cope with their spread.

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    30 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Does anyone know (roughly) what the dimensions of the oval are over there?

    Is it skinny, wide, long..???

    Comparable to the G or Etihad?

    Goody said in his presser its similar to super hero stadium.

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    19 minutes ago, GCDee said:

    Goody said in his presser its similar to super hero stadium.

    Marvellous!

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    Can’t see us winning this game unless we see a dominant performance by a couple of players. Perhaps Gawn, Oliver and Tmac. I just want to see someone take the game by the scruff of the neck and lead the way (and preferably not McGovern).

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    10 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    It's going to be 24 and sunny in Perth on Sunday?

    Will that be too hot for us?

    In the kitchen?

    Quite possibly 

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    14 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Can’t see us winning this game unless we see a dominant performance by a couple of players. Perhaps Gawn, Oliver and Tmac. I just want to see someone take the game by the scruff of the neck and lead the way (and preferably not McGovern).

    Disagree. I think we have a very good chance of winning this and cementing a place in the finals. Weagles, I believe are not that good and definitely not a top 2 team. Our structure without Hogan, as funny as it seems will be better and ensure players deliver with eyes open! We will win plenty of the ball and trust they look for our players for a change.

    I am confident on this one and we will put all the doubters to bed. I hope!

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    From the extended bench Melksham is the only certainty.

    I don't see the need for Pedersen given we're replacing Hogan with Weideman, so I'd drop Pedersen. That's then Weid, Melksham and Hibberd for Hunt, Hogan and Pedersen and the balance feels right.

    I doubt we'll see any more than three changes but I'd be inclined to add a fourth and drop JKH for Kent.

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    43 minutes ago, Dee tention said:

    Clarry is going to rip the Eagles a new one!

    Yes he will, with the winning goal after the siren.   

    How that place would melt if that occurred, Oliver’s been copping a lot of flack on the West Coast boards. 

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    4 hours ago, bing181 said:

    Happy to see Spargo backed in, and not surprised to see it. He made some poor decisions last week - but won't make them again. It's called development.

    bing.  I am a big fan of Spartacus but I did think he looked to be feeling the effects of a very good, but long debut season and thought that he may be ‘rested’ with ‘general soreness’

    Still could be a late withdrawal I guess.  Keep the Weagles guessing.  

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    1 hour ago, Dee tention said:

    Clarry is going to rip the Eagles a new one!

    Now is the time to rise!

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    10 hours ago, GCDee said:

    The AFL will make sure ESS, Norf & Geeling win this week and Port, Dees & Sydney lose to make viewing interesting for the final round.

    Bookmark it

    Interesting.

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    With Hogan out I would like to see us potentially mix things up in the forward line with Petracca having some time at FF, I feel like we've become predictable with our movements, particularly when it comes to our taller forwards. 

    I know it's been said a lot already but we need to lower our eyes and look to spot up targets, it can be a tactic to get our bigger forwards to draw the attention for the defenders while our smaller/mid sized forwards and midfielders lead to create options. Hopefully with Melks back we'll get some good delivery in there.

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    15 minutes ago, Pates said:

    With Hogan out I would like to see us potentially mix things up in the forward line with Petracca having some time at FF, I feel like we've become predictable with our movements, particularly when it comes to our taller forwards. 

    I know it's been said a lot already but we need to lower our eyes and look to spot up targets, it can be a tactic to get our bigger forwards to draw the attention for the defenders while our smaller/mid sized forwards and midfielders lead to create options. Hopefully with Melks back we'll get some good delivery in there.

    Let’s face it, Hogan is a massive loss as we can’t afford our best players out at this time of the year but like you said it gives an opportunity to throw a different mix up forward. 

    Hogan is 4th in the comp with 151 score involvements behind Dusty (157), Riewoldt (153) and Breust (152). Goes to show he’s vital to our set-up. Interestingly Oliver tied 4th with 151 ( what a freak).

    We have some options, Melksham could play deep and can do it well like he showed us Anzac Eve against Rance, Trac goes well as deep forward also. Weid can crash some packs and create spills for our fleet of foot, doesn’t even have to kick a bag. 

    We need to make every attack count because we’ll be spewing up if we see the likes of Cripps, Rioli and Ryan getting cheap ones out the back the other way. 

     

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    Lever, Viney and Hogan are out, and other important players are underdone - Gawn was clearly playing injured last week, while Hibberd and Melksham are straight back in after significant layoffs.

    ...and yet I still reckon we're a chance of knocking off the #2 team away.

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