Seems relatively certain that each club will be permitted to take around 32 players into the hub.

MFC has 38 players plus seven rookies.

The rookies include Lockhart and Dunkley just to mention two.

Who would you leave out of the hub?

Here's the current list as shown in Wikipedia to aid discussion....

Melbourne Football Club

Melbourne Football Club view talk edit
Senior list						Rookie list		Coaching staff
1 Steven May  2 Nathan Jones  3 Christian Salem  4 James Harmes  5 Christian Petracca  6 Luke Jackson  7 Jack Viney (vc)  8 Jake Lever  9 Charlie Spargo 10 Angus Brayshaw 11 Max Gawn (c) 12 Toby Bedford 13 Clayton Oliver 14 Michael Hibberd 15 Ed Langdon 16 Kade Kolodjashnij 18 Jake Melksham 19 Mitch Hannan 20 Adam Tomlinson		21 Braydon Preuss 22 Aaron vandenBerg 23 James Jordon 24 Trent Rivers 25 Tom McDonald 26 Sam Weideman 27 Aaron Nietschke 28 Oscar McDonald 29 Jayden Hunt 30 Alex Neal-Bullen 31 Bayley Fritsch 32 Tom Sparrow 33 Oskar Baker 34 Marty Hore 35 Harrison Petty 36 Kysaiah Pickett 39 Neville Jetta 42 Josh Wagner 44 Joel Smith				17 Harley Bennell 37 Kade Chandler 38 Mitch Brown 40 Corey Wagner 41 Jay Lockhart 46 Austin Bradtke (B) 48 Kyle Dunkley		Head coach Simon Goodwin Assistant coaches Alan Richardson (director of coaching) Troy Chaplin (defence) Justin Plapp (midfield) Ben Mathews (stoppages) Matthew Egan (head of development) Max Rooke (development) Jordan Lewis (development) Sam Radford (VFL) Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice captain(s) (B) Category B rookie italics - Inactive player list Long-term injury

Here's my attempt assuming you need to leave out 13 players:

Injured: Nietschke, Bennell KK, AVB, Preuss, Hannan and Smith (7)

Definitely out.... Mitch Brown, Josh Wagner, Hunt (3)

Probably: Baker,  Chandler, Jordon (3)

Leave Trac out as he will annoy the crap out of the rest locked in a hub!!!

12 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Here's my attempt assuming you need to leave out 13 players:

Injured: Nietschke, Bennell KK, AVB, Preuss, Hannan and Smith (7)

Definitely out.... Mitch Brown, Josh Wagner, Hunt (3)

Probably: Baker,  Chandler, Jordon (3)

I agree across all except imo

Brown is in, Bradtke is an out 

by the way, do we have a forwards coach - if not, GET ONE (Egan or Rooke out!!)

1 minute ago, spirit of norm smith said:

I agree across all except imo

Brown is in, Bradtke is an out 

by the way, do we have a forwards coach - if not, GET ONE (Egan or Rooke out!!)

Agree Bradtke out for Brown given that we have Weid and Jackson in the hub... our level of injury makes the choice relatively easy.... I suppose there has to be some upside (if you can call it that) in our misfortune

Won’t need hubs by the time the AFL gets going in June/July surely. If there is no secondary surge in infections, state borders will be open and there will be limited social interactions and there will have to be if teams are allowed to train together and play. If interstate travel is available this hub idea is defunct. If there is a secondary outbreak, there won’t be any footy this year. 

Edited April 30, 20204 yr by Earl Hood

There is a chance some players will withdraw of their own accord if they have young kids, expecting kids or family to care for.

8 hours ago, Demons1858 said:

There is a chance some players will withdraw of their own accord if they have young kids, expecting kids or family to care for.

First thing would be to ask the players and only include those that want to win. Anyone not interested would need bloody good reason.

But I tend to agree with Earl that the hub idea may be irrelevant.

I would be excited by the possible inclusions of any of Hannan, AVB and Bennell.

I'd leave out Goodwin.

9 hours ago, ding said:

I'd leave out Goodwin.

You'd miss his corporate quotes desperately

Can't imagine a game without him lamenting our "connections going forward"

 

 

21 minutes ago, faultydet said:

You'd miss his corporate quotes desperately

Can't imagine a game without him lamenting our "connections going forward"

 

 

"We'll take learnings from that (loss)"

"next week is a chance to bounce back"

"there are plenty of positives to take aways from today(S) (loss)"

"it will eventually click for this group"

"we get another opportunity next week"

*vomit

Bloke is a [censored] fraud.

Edited May 1, 20204 yr by ding

On 4/30/2020 at 4:20 PM, Diamond_Jim said:

Here's the current list as shown in Wikipedia to aid discussion....

Melbourne Football Club

Melbourne Football Club view talk edit
Senior list						Rookie list		Coaching staff
1 Steven May  2 Nathan Jones  3 Christian Salem  4 James Harmes  5 Christian Petracca  6 Luke Jackson  7 Jack Viney (vc)  8 Jake Lever  9 Charlie Spargo 10 Angus Brayshaw 11 Max Gawn (c) 12 Toby Bedford 13 Clayton Oliver 14 Michael Hibberd 15 Ed Langdon 16 Kade Kolodjashnij 18 Jake Melksham 19 Mitch Hannan 20 Adam Tomlinson		21 Braydon Preuss 22 Aaron vandenBerg 23 James Jordon 24 Trent Rivers 25 Tom McDonald 26 Sam Weideman 27 Aaron Nietschke 28 Oscar McDonald 29 Jayden Hunt 30 Alex Neal-Bullen 31 Bayley Fritsch 32 Tom Sparrow 33 Oskar Baker 34 Marty Hore 35 Harrison Petty 36 Kysaiah Pickett 39 Neville Jetta 42 Josh Wagner 44 Joel Smith				17 Harley Bennell 37 Kade Chandler 38 Mitch Brown 40 Corey Wagner 41 Jay Lockhart 46 Austin Bradtke (B) 48 Kyle Dunkley		Head coach Simon Goodwin Assistant coaches Alan Richardson (director of coaching) Troy Chaplin (defence) Justin Plapp (midfield) Ben Mathews (stoppages) Matthew Egan (head of development) Max Rooke (development) Jordan Lewis (development) Sam Radford (VFL) Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice captain(s) (B) Category B rookie italics - Inactive player list Long-term injury

Leave out the worst 13 so that would be Dunkley, Bradtke, C.Wagner, Brown, Chandler, J.Wagner, Baker, Hunt, Neitschke, Jordon, Preuss, Kolodjashnij, Spargo

On 4/30/2020 at 4:40 PM, Diamond_Jim said:

Here's my attempt assuming you need to leave out 13 players:

Injured: Nietschke, Bennell KK, AVB, Preuss, Hannan and Smith (7)

Definitely out.... Mitch Brown, Josh Wagner, Hunt (3)

Probably: Baker,  Chandler, Jordon (3)

Bennell, Vandenberg, Hannan and Smith will be back by then and Preuss is already back.

7 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

Bennell, Vandenberg, Hannan and Smith will be back by then and Preuss is already back.

I'd nearly leave Hibbo out for Jordan and include Bennell for a risk.

Surely you must gamble on youth and class in this instance.

Rivers Salem and Jetta plus Jones and Tomlinson can fill the HB flanks depending upon the opposition.

Also  Lever  Really is a floating  HB or Back Pocket.

Chandler misses out due to Kozzie and especially Bedford who is no 2 small on the list even ahead of Charlie Spargo.

 

16 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

Bennell, Vandenberg, Hannan and Smith will be back by then and Preuss is already back.

they have not published the rules for replacements entering the hub after it is established but presumably it will require two weeks isolation from other players or similar. Other than Preuss who would be a maybe I wouldn't be taking any of the above into the hub unless they absolutely proved their fitness.

Cannot see what Preuss adds if Jackson and Weid are already there as back ups.

You also have to bear in mind that they are talking of three matches in each two week block so fitness of all in the hub is a very high priority.

On 5/1/2020 at 10:04 AM, ding said:

I'd leave out Goodwin.

That doesn’t make sense.

 

 

18 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Cannot see what Preuss adds if Jackson and Weid are already there as back ups.

Preuss is a must if Gawn is injured.

Outs:

KK, Nietschke (injured)

For me the rest would be:

Jordon, Hunt, Baker, Wagners (x2), Smith (no match fitness), Bradtke, Brown (assuming Petty is ready to go, or swap), Rivers.

If Bennell was aiming for the middle of the year then he might be on track, but it's a massive risk

Vanders is in the same boat given his constant injuries - it might be better to bring both in for the second hub (or whatever they do)

 

On 5/1/2020 at 8:19 PM, ding said:

"We'll take learnings from that (loss)"

"next week is a chance to bounce back"

"there are plenty of positives to take aways from today(S) (loss)"

"it will eventually click for this group"

"we get another opportunity next week"

*vomit

Bloke is a [censored] fraud.

"we didn't see that coming"

if the hub concept really is dead there is no reason to cull anyone

On 5/4/2020 at 5:38 PM, daisycutter said:

if the hub concept really is dead there is no reason to cull anyone

Not even Mark 'Stevo' Stevens?