Time for Gus to shine. No Viney means no reason not to give him 80% time on ball and let him carry on with his good second half form from last week. 
Unless I’m reading my Instagram wrong it looks like Tom is still in QLD so I don’t think he will play. Could be wrong or they could fly him over with the North players. 
It’s not the end of the world for me if Jackson and Tomlinson share the ruck duties. 

26 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

I like the way we let the opposition know so early every time we have an injury

Mighty neighbourly of us. We like helping them in their prep

Come off it mate. You mean like North declaring Brown wouldn't play yesterday? The teams are announced in less than an hour.

Edited August 8, 20204 yr by A F

Club Is cursed .. every club has injuries but mfc just seem to cop them at critical times & of course we are playing our  boggy team who we always lose to 

Edited August 8, 20204 yr by Hogan2014

23 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Regrettably seems my mail was correct.

If we didn't take Preuss with us to Adelaide, despite knowing Gawn was in danger of not being able to play either/both games, that's horrendous IMO. What's worse is it means TMac will get back in, presumably with Jackson playing Gawn's role and TMac playing Jackson's. Disastrous result: Jackson might not be fit enough to play 1st ruck, and his opponent is a top 5 ruckman this season, and TMac's horribly out of form.

Fingers crossed we have Preuss available and we can put him in Gawn's spot. Structurally much better result.

Viney out should mean Brayshaw and Harmes spend more time in the middle. I'd put Harmes on Higgins and bring Rivers in to play Harmes' defensive role. Jetta to replace Lockhart if Lockhart's injured.

Pickett for ANB, maybe Hannan for Benell too, so could see 4-5 changes.

As i have been banging on about a season of inexplicable decisions by Goody.

To the list this week we can add playing max against the Crows (who surprise, surprise target him) and when we do not bringing Preuss to SA as option if required.

Surely Omac comes back in. Tomlinson and Jackosn split ruck duties 970% - 30%), and possibly forward duties 

3 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Time for Gus to shine. No Viney means no reason not to give him 80% time on ball and let him carry on with his good second half form from last week. 
Unless I’m reading my Instagram wrong it looks like Tom is still in QLD so I don’t think he will play. Could be wrong or they could fly him over with the North players. 
It’s not the end of the world for me if Jackson and Tomlinson share the ruck duties. 

Great post mate.

Reckon we can sacrifice the third defensive tall (particularly with no Brown) and play Tomlinson in the ruck all day and use his aerobic power. See if he can rebound off Goldstein too.

I'm excited to see how we plan this.

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Pruess is VFL standard

He’s been injured all year & if he hasn’t had  any match practice, Goldstein absolutely  destroy him

Id go with Jackson & Tmac at least they can get around the ground 

Hunt for ANB & l suppose Hannan for Viney 

 

 

1 minute ago, Hogan2014 said:

Club Is cursed .. every club had injuries but mfc just seem to cop them at critical times & of course we are playing our  boggy team who we always lose to 

FMD, you're a sook.

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Time for Gus to shine. No Viney means no reason not to give him 80% time on ball and let him carry on with his good second half form from last week. 
Unless I’m reading my Instagram wrong it looks like Tom is still in QLD so I don’t think he will play. Could be wrong or they could fly him over with the North players. 
It’s not the end of the world for me if Jackson and Tomlinson share the ruck duties. 

I wouldn't like LJ taking the centre bounces. Too easy to get a knee injury, from a big strong experienced ruckman. Happy for him to do the boundary throw ins and taps, at a ball up, where not running at each other. He is still an inexperienced kid. 

Just now, A F said:

Great post mate.

Reckon we can sacrifice the third tall and play Tomlinson in the ruck all day with his aerobic power. See if he can rebound off Goldstein too.

I'm excited to see how we plan this.

Yep. Teams win clearances off Gawn’s dominance regularly. I’m not fussed about that. I’m just worried about our love of clearing the defensive 50 thru Gawn. Without him we have no marking target down the line. So that’s a big worry for me. 
Maybe play Jackson on the wing and then let him ruck. 

6 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Club Is cursed .. every club has injuries but mfc just seem to cop them at critical times & of course we are playing our  boggy team who we always lose to 

But we are in Adelaide not Tassie and they also have Ziebell, Cunnington and Brown out, who have played against us in the last few close losses.

1 minute ago, A F said:

FMD, you're a sook.

Just the history of the mfc riddled with disaster 

5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Yep. Teams win clearances off Gawn’s dominance regularly. I’m not fussed about that. I’m just worried about our love of clearing the defensive 50 thru Gawn. Without him we have no marking target down the line. So that’s a big worry for me. 
Maybe play Jackson on the wing and then let him ruck. 

Then we tell guys to make position and change the one dimensional gameplan of always kick it to Max. Makes us more unpredictable. We need to add some pace for sunday to break lines and change the dynamic.

5 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Club Is cursed .. every club has injuries but mfc just seem to cop them at critical times & of course we are playing our  boggy team who we always lose to 

We’ve had the best injury run of any club in 2020. No excuses.

1 minute ago, Jaded said:

Yep. Teams win clearances off Gawn’s dominance regularly. I’m not fussed about that. I’m just worried about our love of clearing the defensive 50 thru Gawn. Without him we have no marking target down the line. So that’s a big worry for me. 
Maybe play Jackson on the wing and then let him ruck. 

Tomlinson is a decent contested mark and good outlet from defence too, as we saw at times last week.

I reckon it makes us more unpredictable. It might also mean we have to either use May's long kicking to get it as close to centre wing as possible and let Jackson and co bring it ground, or we look for shorter passes and then if we get a look at the corridor, use it swiftly to our mid sized players.

Out: Gawn Viney ANB

I’d have In: rivers, Pickett Hannan 

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

Then we tell guys to make position and change the one dimensional gameplan of always kick it to Max. Makes us more unpredictable. We need to add some pace for sunday to break lines and change the dynamic.

 

Just now, A F said:

Tomlinson is a decent contested mark and good outlet from defence too, as we saw at times last week.

I reckon it makes us more unpredictable. It might also mean we have to either use May's long kicking to get it as close to centre wing as possible and let Jackson and co bring it ground, or we look for shorter passes and then if we get a look at the corridor, use it swiftly to our mid sized players.

Love all these options. Unsure we can execute such dramatic changes in 4 days when we couldn’t execute basic kicking with an entire summer of practice. 

It’ll be interesting to see our kick outs now with Gawn out. No more bombing to the flank on repeat.

Also interesting to see how our backline holds up without Gawn covering for them.

Time for the coaches to come up with some new strategies finally!

3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

But we are in Adelaide not Tassie and they also have Ziebell, Cunnington and Brown out, who have played against us in the last few close losses.

Any time, anywhere. That should be our mantra. The Bulldogs won a flag with system based play. We follow a similar model. If we have injuries, another soldier steps up and plays their role. We have significant A grade midfield depth IMV and that's where we can get on top here.

2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Then we tell guys to make position and change the one dimensional gameplan of always kick it to Max. Makes us more unpredictable. We need to add some pace for sunday to break lines and change the dynamic.

Spot on Mr Leg and how many games have we lost when Gawn has been dominate. The other side just sharks his hit outs. time to do the same to Goldstein.

1 minute ago, Hogan2014 said:

Just the history of the mfc riddled with disaster 

I know, just look at 2018, is it raining where you are?

The sign of a good team, is the ability to cover injuries to top players, let's see how we go before looking for a cliff top

Sparrow gets his opportunity for more minutes, we are not exactly throwing a skinny kid in there

I'd go with 3 rucks, Preuss or Tmac in the middle, Jackson front half, Tomlinson back half

1 minute ago, Lord Travis said:

It’ll be interesting to see our kick outs now with Gawn out. No more bombing to the flank on repeat.

Also interesting to see how our backline holds up without Gawn covering for them.

Time for the coaches to come up with some new strategies finally!

Now you are asking a lot LT, change something!

Just now, Satyriconhome said:

I know, just look at 2018, is it raining where you are?

The sign of a good team, is the ability to cover injuries to top players, let's see how we go before looking for a cliff top

Sparrow gets his opportunity for more minutes, we are not exactly throwing a skinny kid in there

I'd go with 3 rucks, Preuss or Tmac in the middle, Jackson front half, Tomlinson back half

Are Tmac and /or Preuss in SA?

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

 

Love all these options. Unsure we can execute such dramatic changes in 4 days when we couldn’t execute basic kicking with an entire summer of practice. 

I think sometimes a lack of options or a necessity to change, frees up players. Could be the go here 

7 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

It’ll be interesting to see our kick outs now with Gawn out. No more bombing to the flank on repeat.

Also interesting to see how our backline holds up without Gawn covering for them.

Time for the coaches to come up with some new strategies finally!

I'm not sure we necessarily have to change it up too much. For the first quarter, I'd be going long to Jackson and/or Tomlinson, unless a free option presents itself up the ground.

If Goldstein and their team take too many intercept marks and stifle our play, we change our strategy, otherwise I don't necessarily think no Gawn = game plan change.

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6 minutes ago, old dee said:

Are Tmac and /or Preuss in SA?

TMac is