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Selection for round 2 will be an interesting exercise. So many questions that will need to be answered. What sort of condition did the players come back in? How have the injured players come up? Who and where are we playing?

 In so many ways this is a re-set of the season except we are starting 0-1

This is the Round 1 team that went down to WC sometime last century. It looks as if we will get Round 2 mid-June and I am sure we are all looking forward to it.

FB: Neville Jetta, Steven May, Jake Lever

HB: Oscar McDonald, James Harmes, Michael Hibberd

C : Ed Langdon, Clayton Oliver, Adam Tomlinson

 HF: Alex Neal-Bullen, Bayley Fritsch, Jack Viney

 F: Kysaiah Pickett, Tom McDonald, Mitch Brown

 FOL: Max Gawn, Christian Petracca, Jake Melksham

IC: Charlie Spargo, Angus Brayshaw, Toby Bedford, Jay Lockhart

 This is not meant to be a prediction of the round 2 team more a look at who might come into the team given the long break that we have had between rounds.

Missing from the R1 team through injury were Jones and Salem who, I would have thought, were automatic selections if fit. They would have replaced Spargo and Bedford I believe. Of the longer term injured we may find Preuss, AVB or Bennell ready for a run. Afterall, if that have recovered and built a fitness base, then they are now no worse off than the rest of the list who will not have had any footy for a few months. A level playing field.

 I think Jackson and Rivers could only have benefited from the extended break that would have allowed them a little bit more time to grow into their bodies and to build and develop a fitness base.

 Selections will be based on training form only. I cannot imagine that the playing form in R1 would be considered. If it were Brown, Bedford and Spargo would be on the outer.

 
2 hours ago, CHF said:

Selection for round 2 will be an interesting exercise. So many questions that will need to be answered. What sort of condition did the players come back in? How have the injured players come up? Who and where are we playing?

 In so many ways this is a re-set of the season except we are starting 0-1

This is the Round 1 team that went down to WC sometime last century. It looks as if we will get Round 2 mid-June and I am sure we are all looking forward to it.

FB: Neville Jetta, Steven May, Jake Lever

HB: Oscar McDonald, James Harmes, Michael Hibberd

C : Ed Langdon, Clayton Oliver, Adam Tomlinson

 HF: Alex Neal-Bullen, Bayley Fritsch, Jack Viney

 F: Kysaiah Pickett, Tom McDonald, Mitch Brown

 FOL: Max Gawn, Christian Petracca, Jake Melksham

IC: Charlie Spargo, Angus Brayshaw, Toby Bedford, Jay Lockhart

 This is not meant to be a prediction of the round 2 team more a look at who might come into the team given the long break that we have had between rounds.

Missing from the R1 team through injury were Jones and Salem who, I would have thought, were automatic selections if fit. They would have replaced Spargo and Bedford I believe. Of the longer term injured we may find Preuss, AVB or Bennell ready for a run. Afterall, if that have recovered and built a fitness base, then they are now no worse off than the rest of the list who will not have had any footy for a few months. A level playing field.

 I think Jackson and Rivers could only have benefited from the extended break that would have allowed them a little bit more time to grow into their bodies and to build and develop a fitness base.

 Selections will be based on training form only. I cannot imagine that the playing form in R1 would be considered. If it were Brown, Bedford and Spargo would be on the outer.

This is who I would go with.

 

FB: Jetta, Lever, Hibberd

HB: Salem, May, Harmes

C : Langdon, Oliver, Tomlinson

 HF: ANB, TMac, Jones

 F: Pickett, Weideman, Fritsch

 FOL: Gawn, Petracca, Viney

IC: Hore, Brayshaw, Lockhart, Vandenberg/Sparrow

9 hours ago, Hogans Demons said:

This is who I would go with.

 

FB: Jetta, Lever, Hibberd

HB: Salem, May, Harmes

C : Langdon, Oliver, Tomlinson

 HF: ANB, TMac, Jones

 F: Pickett, Weideman, Fritsch

 FOL: Gawn, Petracca, Viney

IC: Hore, Brayshaw, Lockhart, Vandenberg/Sparrow

HD -Pretty spot on for how it could look. Going forward my queries are

Hibberd,   has he still got it?

Harmes,  I do not agree with the move to half back.

Tomlinson is not a true wingman

ANB lacks class and finishing skills

We still need to find four to six players.

 

I feel for the young guys on the fringe, Jackson, Sparrow, Rivers etc...Particularly Luke Jackson, he's raw but clearly very talented. With no VFL these guys have nowhere to develop their game other than the training track. I wonder if we'll see somone like Jackson getting games based on development. 

12 hours ago, CHF said:

Selection for round 2 will be an interesting exercise. So many questions that will need to be answered. What sort of condition did the players come back in? How have the injured players come up? Who and where are we playing?

 In so many ways this is a re-set of the season except we are starting 0-1

This is the Round 1 team that went down to WC sometime last century. It looks as if we will get Round 2 mid-June and I am sure we are all looking forward to it.

FB: Neville Jetta, Steven May, Jake Lever

HB: Oscar McDonald, James Harmes, Michael Hibberd

C : Ed Langdon, Clayton Oliver, Adam Tomlinson

 HF: Alex Neal-Bullen, Bayley Fritsch, Jack Viney

 F: Kysaiah Pickett, Tom McDonald, Mitch Brown

 FOL: Max Gawn, Christian Petracca, Jake Melksham

IC: Charlie Spargo, Angus Brayshaw, Toby Bedford, Jay Lockhart

 This is not meant to be a prediction of the round 2 team more a look at who might come into the team given the long break that we have had between rounds.

Missing from the R1 team through injury were Jones and Salem who, I would have thought, were automatic selections if fit. They would have replaced Spargo and Bedford I believe. Of the longer term injured we may find Preuss, AVB or Bennell ready for a run. Afterall, if that have recovered and built a fitness base, then they are now no worse off than the rest of the list who will not have had any footy for a few months. A level playing field.

 I think Jackson and Rivers could only have benefited from the extended break that would have allowed them a little bit more time to grow into their bodies and to build and develop a fitness base.

 Selections will be based on training form only. I cannot imagine that the playing form in R1 would be considered. If it were Brown, Bedford and Spargo would be on the outer.

Selection is a little premature, at this point, I'd guess. Returns from injury/further developments/form status all make such a decision or series of decisions extremely difficult - I'd rather see some conservatism about the return to footy by the AFL/Club - rather than potential risk and an extended recovery across the playing group. We certainly need to have some fair dinkum match simulation batteries to get a better picture of what is - or may be - ahead. We must also assume that the players, themselves, have done the hard yards to achieve the readiness status that will be involved.


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