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MELBOURNEfc Team

Backs: D.Ward, N.Carroll, A.Yze

Half backs: N.Brown, J.Rivers, D.Bell

Centreline: M.Bate, J.McDonald, A.Davey

Half forwards: B.Green, B.Miller, C.Bruce

Forwards: C.Sylvia, D.Neitz, B.Moloney

Followers: J.White, S.Godfrey, T.Johnstone

I/C From: P.Johnson, N.Jones, L.Dunn, M.Warnock

Emergencies: B.Pickett, B.Holland, J.Frawley

In: B.Green, D.Ward,

Out: R.Petterd, B.Pickett

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scrap that comment he is an emergency...

No he isn't! He's injured. Strike two for you, would you like a third crack at getting it right?? :D


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MELBOURNEfc Team

Forwards: C.Sylvia, D.Neitz, B.Moloney

Another cunning Daniher device: "hide" the blokes with OP in the Forward Pocket. I mean Moloney has absolutely no credentials at all. SYLVIA NEITZ NEWTON has a much more threatening look.

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Another cunning Daniher device: "hide" the blokes with OP in the Forward Pocket. I mean Moloney has absolutely no credentials at all. SYLVIA NEITZ NEWTON has a much more threatening look.

When has the team sheet ever resembled the actual line-up? :wacko:

I trust that if they are playing Beamer, he is fit to play. And no, he won't be spending the afternoon in the forward pocket, so the point about Newton is irrelevant.

People are wasting their energy bemoaning the fact that Newton isn't getting a game... how about redirecting it to the fact that Ward IS getting a game. I hope he proves me wrong and has a blinder, but I'm not holding my breath.

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you guys want the 3rd strike? i meant to write 'pickett' not 'petterd' hahaha don't worry i've fixed it now.

long day of uni work, and it looks like going well into the night :mellow:

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Why on earth is Warnock getting a game? He was far from impressive last week (bar his goal) and more importantly, the bulldogs have only 1 tall forward (who is also their second ruck). We have 3 talls named on the bench (PJ, Dunn, Warnock), they have none. Just a baffling decision. (I also really don't rate Warnock and would rather see anyone on our list get a game before him and that includes Ward)

WESTERN BULLDOGS

B: McMahon, Harris, Morris

HB: Gilbee, Wight, Hargrave

C: Eagleton, S.West, Griffen

HF: Giansiracusa, Johnson, Boyd

F: Hahn, Darcy, Akermanis

FOLL: Street, Cross, Cooney

I/C: Ray, Higgins, Addison, Harbrow

EM: Faulkner, Minson, Power

IN: Harbrow, Hahn, Street

OUT: Murphy (hamstring), Minson, Power

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i don't not rate warnock. i havnt seen enough of him. he seems a good honest defender who isnt going to be your number one. not at this stage anyway. but he doesnt seem to be doing too much wrong...

i think the reason we have gone tall is because of the old fashion rule. a good tall will beat a good small anyday (except in the wet). knowing our luck the afl will decide they now want the roof open and it will rain. however we are much taller than the dogs and we can use this to our advantage.

have a look at the team again however. we have carrol and rivers as talls in the backline. bell is medium but he is essentially a runner. in the forward line we've named neitz and miller as talls. yes bate and bruce are tall and green plays more like a tall than a crumber the reality is bruce and green will play mostly on the ball with stints up forward. bruce might even play on johnson whereever he plays. bate, for all his height, isnt a true tall in that he runs all day chasing the ball. he will play at all of the HFF, CHF and the centre throughout the day. a couple of posters rightly pointed out that moloney won't line up in the FP. well put dunn there and moloney on the bench, we suddenly have 2 runners on the bench and a little extra height to cause the dogs problems up forward.

the bulldogs height and weight (i've left some out coz we know they are smalls, but i put the height in for a couple of the mediums.

B: McMahon (185,78), Harris(195, 100), Morris (190, 86)

HB: Gilbee (180, 80), Wight(200, 95), Hargrave (190, 87)

HF: Giansiracusa (182, 79) , Johnson (182, 85), Boyd (184, 87)

F: Hahn (188, 100), Darcy (197, 99), Akermanis

FOLL: Street (211, 105), Cross, Cooney

I/C: Ray (187, 87), Higgins (184,85), Addison (186, 79), Harbrow (178, 71)

Harris takes neitz. is wight going to be mobile enough for miller? if not he spends all day on the pine. he is listed as a 200cm 3rd tall. i havnt seen any of him to make a judgement, but it sounds like he'll get either miller (194, 96) or dunn (192, 90), making him probably not mobile enough for either. miller is probably a little too tall for either morris or hargrave, but one of them get dunn.

the way i see it they have probably 6 talls to our 8. their resting ruckman is also their full forward. they will have to seriously consider throwing another tall forward at some point throughout the game. im pretty happy.

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actually another point. i have read posts here with people complaining the ND is reactive 'picking ward because bulldogs are a running side' but we saying that we should play to our strength. i believe we have selected towards our strengths this week with the two outs being running players and the two ins being the same. it would have been easy to drop warnock for buckly 'to match the dogs through the midfield' but i think this way we will force them to match up on us.

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morris wipes the floor with whoever he plays on, so dunn or miller might be in for a quiet game

is he big enough for miller though? giving away 10 kgs and a decent whack of height?


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actually another point. i have read posts here with people complaining the ND is reactive 'picking ward because bulldogs are a running side' but we saying that we should play to our strength. i believe we have selected towards our strengths this week with the two outs being running players and the two ins being the same. it would have been easy to drop warnock for buckly 'to match the dogs through the midfield' but i think this way we will force them to match up on us.

That was me Deanox. I was just a bit frustrated seeing Ward in the team.

For what it is worth here is how I'd like to see us set-up:

Defence:

Bell - Akermanis

P Johnson - Darcy

Warnock - Hahn

Carroll - Johnson

Ward - Giansiracusa

PJ should play on Darcy all day. Follow him into the Ruck. Rivers should play as a loose man in defence. He can be so damaging without a player because he reads it so well. I prefer the one extra back approach to flooding.

Not sure who Doggie will play on.

Midfield:

Godfrey - West

Only real match-up to worry about. The rest will take care of itself. Cooney represent s a bit of a danger because he can be damaging forward o\f the ball. Maybe Bruce to play on him with a defencsive mindset.

Forward:

Liked Essendon's set up on Friday night. At each bounce Plenty of space. The fact they got smashed in the clearances let them done.

I'd push the HFFs to the wing. Then start Davey, Miller on the half forward line.

Neitz and Dunn deep. If we win as many clearances as against Port this open Midfield will work wonders. Neitz has to be better for the run last week and should be ready to fire. Harris is a good defender but I think Neitz has him on the lead. Therefore bombing it in will achieve nothing. If we play an open forward line Harris won't have any mates to support him.

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our side looks well balanced on paper but against the doggies i m concerned with godfrey and brown in the mid field we re gonna get run off our feet.

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godders and brown both played last time, on a bigger ground, and we trounced them. if we play as a team we'll be fine. last time brown 20 touches and godders even nailed a nice goal!

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Cooney represent s a bit of a danger because he can be damaging forward o\f the ball. Maybe Bruce to play on him with a defencsive mindset.

gouga have you considered bell to tag cooney. he has the height and pace to go with him, has been in great form and will make cooney accountable the other way?

i suppose though, with wheelan and bartram and petterd out we really need bell to play back. but i think it would be a good match up otherwise.

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