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  1. 1. Jones, Brown or Sparrow

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Sparrow will be stiff to miss out considering the great goal he kicked. Jones is in sensational form in the 2's and Ben Brown kicked 5. Who is your tip demonland?

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    Sparrow.

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    Brown offers something completely different. 
    Jones and Sparrow would play similar roles and then it’s if you want some one to tackle and pressure more (sparrow) or some one who gets the pil a few more times and probably uses it inside f50 better.

    I can’t see Sparrow being dropped for Jones this week. But if they want BBB in then possibly. Hawks talks worried GWS so I reckon they will lean that way. 

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    Why only one option when there's clearly two serious candidates on the discussion  table after yesterday? (Jones and Brown).

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    Sparrow will only be unlucky given the availability of Viney, Harmes and Jordan 

    we need an extra tall and we have one too many inside mids unfortunately 

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    It seems obvious that Brown will be tried again before finals. That’s why he was brought to the club. So if not now - 8 weeks out from finals, then when? He’s a tall marking, goal kicking forward, who for all the argued ease of his game yesterday, nonetheless kicked 5. If that’s not enough to bring him in this week, particularly considering our ordinary performance inside 50 on Saturday, then the match committee must have a mysterious plan. Well, a mystery to us, anyway. Who makes way? I’d tip Sparrow, which is harsh, but Viney will pick up some of the inside slack as he finds his groove.

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    I feel Jonesy's value to the team has been fairly undervalued at times on this forum.

    Yeah he hadn't been kicking many goals off his own boot or racking up huge numbers, but I feel he often played an important hand in our attacking chains that resulted in goals.  He has both that strength, experience and skill to hold onto the ball longer and dispose of it to a good option in space that I'm not sure I've seen in Sparrows game just yet.

    I've been happy to get games into Sparrow as I think he's both earnt it and needs some more games at the top level for the sake of his development.  But I'm just not sure that he is damaging enough to help take our forward line to the next level.  Feel like we need to get one of Jones, AVB or Melksham back in there soon to start embedding some better forward connection for finals.

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    Jones played well yesterday but got mid field time he will not get at top level. I think he has gone one year too long as a permanent fixture but would like his guts and determination in the last quarter of a tight GF.

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    The heart says Chunk, but the brain says Brown.

    Whatever happens will not be unchangeable from this point forward. Weed got his shot, didn't grasp it and now we try BBB. 

    I don't think there will be any difference to how he will be treated. If he doesn't succeed, perhaps we try Mitch Brown for a few weeks. And if that fails, perhaps it's time to play a permanently smaller forward line.

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    I particularly liked the way Brown was getting goals for Casey. Featured his trademark full-speed lead and marking with arms at full stretch. Completely impossible for a defender to do anything about without chopping the arms. Of course, it would still require our mids/half-forwards to properly honour the lead coming at them which is not currently a strength of ours, but if Brown is back to having the confidence and comfort to be doing that then he's got to come in.

    Jones looked 100% ready to be back at AFL and seemed to relish being in a few stoppages, too. Maybe it was the lower camera angles for a Casey game but he looked faster and fitter than he did even six weeks ago.

    Sparrow is shaping as a great kid and another youngster who has shown commitment to tackling and defensive effort from day 1.

    Um... I guess my answer is "YES".

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