1 hour ago, Nasher said:

 

 

Welcome to Sunday morning boys!

 

Nobody reads your posts

Reading between the lines I reckon we will definitely bring in another key forward to replace TMac.

My gut feel is that they will bring in Brown.  I suspect they won't want two young / inexperienced key forwards taking on hawthorn's experienced defence with Frawley, Sicily and dare I say it Frost.

29 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

Mcevoy has been playing CHB/FB most of the year. They shifted him down there and use Ceglar as ruck. McEvoy has been good down back, but they swung him forward the past fortnight with success also. He's a solid utility.

Ceglar out robs them of that tall option both back and forward. I think McEvoy is a better ruckman than Ceglar, and he's nullified Max in the past so our ruck advantage has just been reduced IMO. Does help us structurally though with Tmac out, giving them one less marking and intercepting option down back.

My thoughts are McEvoy won't have the tank to run with Maxy this week. Can't imagine he's done similar kms. Big positive in my eyes.

17 minutes ago, Fifty-5 said:

Nobody reads your posts

Wish someone would have told me that before I made 13,000 of them!

14 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said:

Reading between the lines I reckon we will definitely bring in another key forward to replace TMac.

My gut feel is that they will bring in Brown.  I suspect they won't want two young / inexperienced key forwards taking on hawthorn's experienced defence with Frawley, Sicily and dare I say it Frost.

I agree - Brown should come in as the more experienced guy. Plus, he is a good lead, so will help to drag the big Hawks defence around.

8 minutes ago, 3183 Dee said:

I agree - Brown should come in as the more experienced guy. Plus, he is a good lead, so will help to drag the big Hawks defence around.

Agree 100%. Mitch Brown must come in this week. Play as mobile CHF. Actually be handy given Hawks use Sicily as CHB and rebound defender. Need to make him accountable. 

tmac replacement from brown, tomlinson, smith or jackson

will probably be brown but not convinced he is best choice.....difficult decision 

38 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Wish someone would have told me that before I made 13,000 of them!

the secret is out!

1 hour ago, Grimes Times said:

Ross Lyon pointed this out on Footy classified last night. Haw have had bad looses to Geelong and Collingwood this year on the two skinny AFL grounds.

I agree the sardine can grounds really suit our crash and bash style, it's at the MCG where we have struggled with teams playing keepings off. You'd think we'd have the edge in contested ball over Hawthorn, even though every time I think that our midfield fails to turn up...

I wonder if they might consider Adam Tomlinson at CHF to replace Tom, despite not being considered for a place on the wing last week. 

I see the Weid is doing rucking practice in the other thread. If Max is up against McEvoy maybe he will spend time helping out down back and sharing front half ruckwork with Weiderman. If we will be squeezing into 5 and 6 day layoffs between games, this may be a relief for Max. 

Edited July 16, 20205 yr by Damo

4 hours ago, binman said:

Has to be. I means why get him otherwise

Jackson might be in the frame i guess as he has pace and might be a hard match up but he looked too raw round one and the Hawks will work him over.

And in some way i don't think we will lose too much if brown comes in for Tmac, who has not been in great form anyway. Brown would have to play the same role - get p the ground and compete.

Weed to play out of the square (i had suggested to opposite ie Tmac out of the square - but having seen him last week i'm not sure he is strong enough).

agreed. I think if Brown can can take a few marks and kick a goal or two he will have fulfilled TMac's role. then both he and Weid will be on show to get the one spot when TMac comes back in.

 

against the Weagles he read the ball well and got to good spots but was butter fingers dropping marks.

 

funnily enough if Brown plays we'd have two of the best talls kicks going around up forward. getting it to them is the hard part.

 

 

Brown of course the safer option

Wouldn't be too bad to see Jacko in, but if Sicily is on him he could be beaten easily 

1 hour ago, MF-C said:

Brown of course the safer option

Wouldn't be too bad to see Jacko in, but if Sicily is on him he could be beaten easily 

Sicily won't play on Brown or Jackson.

He's only 186cm  so would get monstered. 

He typically plays on the 3rd or 4th tall and they use him as a distributor. I'd like to see Melksham go to him in a negating role.

I'd say Frawley will get Weideman and Frost will get Brown/Jackson for the majority of the game.

The last thing we need is Smith in the forward line spoiling our other forwards. Please let the experiment end. 

Take the discussion over to the TEAM SELECTION thread:  https://demonland.com/forums/topic/48472-teams-rd-07-vs-hawthorn/