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The Demons return to the MCG in Round 22 as they take on the rampaging Carlton Blues who have won 7 on trot and would love to take another Top 4 scalp on their way back into AFL finals. Who comes in and who goes out?

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6 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

Moonboots are precautionary although they look awful.

Fingers crossed on Petty. Maybe just a week or 2 hopefully.

Healy on kayo, looking at it on replay thought  it could well be  the dreaded syndesmosis. ie 8 weeks. Anyway fingers crossed it’s not .. he’s a big cog in the wheel for us. 

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Just now, whatwhat say what said:

there's no match-up for tomlinson at the baggers so can't see him coming in

OUT: petty, harmes
IN: oliver

smith forward and hibb comes into the 22

Yeah I think i’m with you. Tempting to give grundy one last go though isn’t it.

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Just now, Wells 11 said:

Healy on kayo, looking at it on replay thought  it could well be  the dreaded syndesmosis. ie 8 weeks. Anyway fingers crossed it’s not .. he’s a big cog in the wheel for us. 

For anyone else you’d be suspicious of a syndesmosis so I’m not surprised job for life Gerard went with that. But with Petty only just recovering from the sprained ligament in his foot that has to be the suspicion too.

Either way serious foot/ankle injuries rarely get back inside 6 weeks. Full fit inside 5 would be a good result. 

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5 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Hibberd was quality after he came on for Petty. Definitely deserves a full game next week against the dangerous Carlton smalls.

Thought he was average. A poor panicked handball gifted the Roos a goal. 

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JJ’s second half probably keeps him in but geez if Oliver is cherry ripe and can dominate the midfield with Viney and others then do we go a double change in the middle and take out a crash and bash mid and bring in Woey, Spargo, Laurie or even Moniz-Wakefield? All who would bring either speed or polish. 

We had 6 inside mids today: Viney, Gus, Tracc, Sparrow, Harmes, JJ. We really only need 5. 

I don’t think he’s quite ready but I’d love to see the Money man Wakefield 

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Oliver for Harmes seems a reasonable bet.

A few options for Petty. We could try Grundy. We could flip Smith back to the forward line and bring Tomlinson back. We could go back to the well with Brown, but I doubt that will happen. A lot of food for thought. A shame Casey didn't play this weekend.

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3 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

JJ’s second half probably keeps him in but geez if Oliver is cherry ripe and can dominate the midfield with Viney and others then do we go a double change in the middle and take out a crash and bash mid and bring in Woey, Spargo, Laurie or even Moniz-Wakefield? All who would bring either speed or polish. 

We had 6 inside mids today: Viney, Gus, Tracc, Sparrow, Harmes, JJ. We really only need 5. 

I don’t think he’s quite ready but I’d love to see the Money man Wakefield 

I think Viney 71% gametime was part of the idea there.

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I think Viney 71% gametime was part of the idea there.

Loading up on mids lets us run out games strongly, but it means we also start slowly because we’re slow. 

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