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TEAMS: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn

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1 hour ago, Billy said:

Except 4 premiership stars

Four out, two returning = -2

46 minutes ago, Nasher said:

To be fair, the effects on people widely vary. On balance of probabilities you’d think extremely fit and healthy men in their 20s are likely to recover quicker than most.

20220108_footballers(1).pdf

We know the effects vary markedly between individuals, and not wanting to be too much of a downer, but this is an interesting study. 

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    Jackson and Kozzi outs are the ones I’m most interested to see how we replace. 
     

    Can we turn a midfield and can we sustain fwd pressure. Can’t wait to see.

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    Would that study apply to those players who contracted the Delta variant which seemed to have had harsher symptoms but not as virulent as Omicron. Also in March 2020 had they been vaccinated.

    Obviously we are all hoping that because they are young and fit and vaccinated that they will be available asap after iso.

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    All good Bowza is in - cannot possibly lose.  :cool:

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    26 minutes ago, Winners at last said:

    No Hibbo either as an emergency.

    Playing at Casey.

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    Considering the outs the inclusions are pretty handy, Kozzie will be hard to replace as I don’t think people understand how important his 2nd/3rd/4th efforts are. LJ out sucks as well but he’s been a little off touch lately so TMac gets a chance to reclaim his spot. 

    Question will be does Weid slot into being second ruck or will in be shared equally between him and Tom (with a bit of Brown in the forward half)?

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    7 minutes ago, Pates said:

    Considering the outs the inclusions are pretty handy, Kozzie will be hard to replace as I don’t think people understand how important his 2nd/3rd/4th efforts are. LJ out sucks as well but he’s been a little off touch lately so TMac gets a chance to reclaim his spot. 

    Question will be does Weid slot into being second ruck or will in be shared equally between him and Tom (with a bit of Brown in the forward half)?

    Suspect Weid will do the pinch hitting work in the middle but probably very limited.

    Duties shared between him, BB & Maxy up forward.  Plugger might get the odd look in if no one else is about to take it but would expect zero otherwise.

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    We all got the virus and my 21 year old sporty son was hit the hardest. It took him a month to get over it. Its very unpredictable. I hope Oliver has already had it!

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    4 hours ago, Demon17 said:

     

     

    Agreed. But may  lever rivers bowey supported by smith and hunt give me confidence. 

    And Jack around the ball.

     

    That big bloke we have down back May gives me a fair bit of confidence too.

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    Kozzi and Jackson are not replaceable as such imo. We lose pressure up fwd and we lose everything LJ brings uniquely. 

    no offence to Sparrow or a Petty but the lose is felt less imo

    still should beat the squalks though 

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    I'm actually happy Tommy get's another game.  Think he usually gives good effort and frequently gets involved in the play through some kind of team act .

    Hopefully he's got some confidence and added hunger after his first reserves game in a fair while.

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    T Mac playing fwd

    Weed second Ruck?

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    3 hours ago, Winners at last said:

    No Hibbo either as an emergency.

    Playing VFL for the first time this week. No match fitness and I'm assuming they won't rush him back as we don't need to. :) 

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    Emergencies are interesting. Could be the last chance Baker and Mitch Brown have to run out in the firsts, thought we'd seen the last of them. Thomlinson a decent backup for any of the backs.

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    3 hours ago, DubDee said:

    T Mac playing fwd

    Weed second Ruck?

    I actually think playing second ruck is good for Weid.  It forces him into the action in a physical way and gives him the opertuity to get his hands on the ball a bit and be involved with the play, from which he can build some touch and confidence within games.

    Additionally, if he can actually make a half decient fist of the ruck duties part, what versatility that could give us during games, even when both Max and Dogga are available.  Teams seem to have enough trouble dealing with the change in style between Max and Dogga, what if we could confidently throw Weid into the ruck to mix things up even more?

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    Weid was gearing up to be 2nd ruck/fwd before Jackson fell to us.

    He will surprise a few in the stoppages I think.

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    11 hours ago, monoccular said:

    Four out, two returning = -2

    20220108_footballers(1).pdf 526.85 kB · 11 downloads

    We know the effects vary markedly between individuals, and not wanting to be too much of a downer, but this is an interesting study. 

    They are not foot ballers they are soccer players Big difference. You see these guys being knocked over my a feather and then writhe on the ground  in agony for minutes 

    They appear not to be able to cope with much adversity

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    12 hours ago, Demonland said:

    HAWTHORN

    IN: Callow, Bramble, Shiels

    OUT: Ward (managed), Grainger-Barras (managed), Maginness (omitted)

    B: Jack Scrimshaw, Sam Frost, Blake Hardwick
    HB: Harry Morrison, James Sicily, Will Day
    C: Jaeger O'Meara, Tom Mitchell, Liam Shiels
    HF: Conor Nash, Luke Breust, Connor Macdonald
    F: Dylan Moore, Jack Gunston, Jarman Impey
    R: Max Lynch, Jai Newcombe, James Worpel
    Int: Jackson Callow, Lachlan Bramble, Chad Wingard, Jacob Koschitzke

    Emer: Finn Maginness, Denver Grainger-Barras, Ned Long, Daniel Howe

    They look particularly inexperienced in the mid area.  Lynch newcomb worpel

    Omeara  hasn't been playing v well.  Mitchell not that damaging and Shiels is back from being dropped 

    Their fwds have been playing quite well and their defence is ok if not a little flaky with frost

    Dees by 30

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    11 hours ago, Winners at last said:

    No Hibbo either as an emergency.

    I reckon Hibbert will struggle to get back into the team. He will need to show some blistering form at Casey.

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    13 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

    They look particularly inexperienced in the mid area.  Lynch newcomb worpel

    Omeara  hasn't been playing v well.  Mitchell not that damaging and Shiels is back from being dropped 

    Their fwds have been playing quite well and their defence is ok if not a little flaky with frost

    Dees by 30

    Michell had a day out against us the last time we played in the draw.  Newcomb while very inexperienced is playing some very good damaging footy and seems to have a semi decent tank at least for 3 quarters.  Worpel a bit hit n miss.  Omeara is off at the mo but you never know.

    If their mid clicks they can be pretty dangerous and they move the ball quickly into the forward line from center under 666.  Big incentive with Bruce down there.  Rarely misses.

    They got off to a flyer against the Swans last week who often do that to others at times (at one stage near end of the first it was 34-7 or so) and were right in it up to about the 10 minute mark of the last where they seemed to run out of puff and lose their structure around the ball.

    We would want to be at our best and have our kicking boots on.

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    9 minutes ago, Kent said:

    They are not foot ballers they are soccer players Big difference. You see these guys being knocked over my a feather and then writhe on the ground  in agony for minutes 

    They appear not to be able to cope with much adversity

    My point in adding the link was that, whilst many or most younger folk get through Covid pretty simply, there ae a few who have long lasting effects particularly in terms of fatigue and endurance.  

    Hoping that this isn't the case with any of ours. 

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    The 'dangerman' will be Gunston.   Didn't play last year.  He is a smart player in fine form.  They will look for him when on a break.  Shiels plays well against us.  Breust is also scoring well. 

    I'm guessing they will look to move the ball very quickly denying us the ability to roll back and set up our defence.  

    Hoping that if we have a good lead in the last quarter that we keep going and not shut the game down.

    Win by 3-5 goals.

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