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PREGAME: Rd 11 vs Sydney

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Sharp for Viney would just about do it.

Spargo probably gets a reprieve with the dees win but first half wasn't great.

Fritsch to start now as long as he keeps bringing that intensity.

Edit: forgot Lever, will he need another run at Casey? If not it will probably mean Turner forward and Johnson out.

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    18 minutes ago, Random Task said:

    Sharp for Viney would just about do it.

    Spargo probably gets a reprive with the dees win but first half wasn't great.

    Fritsch to start now as long as he keeps bringing that intensity.

    Edit: forgot Lever, will he need another run at Casey? If not it will probably mean Turner forward and Johnson out.

    Keep Fritsch as the sub for another week, was genuinely impactful in that role. Make it clear he needs to earn a full game.

    Could we have Lever, May, Turner and T Mac all in the backline? Turner seems mobile enough to play on a medium forward, or it simply frees Lever up to do his best work.

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    3 minutes ago, seventyfour said:

    Keep Fritsch as the sub for another week, was genuinely impactful in that role. Make it clear he needs to earn a full game.

    Could we have Lever, May, Turner and T Mac all in the backline? Turner seems mobile enough to play on a medium forward, or it simply frees Lever up to do his best work.

    You’d have to take Windsor out and despite his poor game today his pace has proven so valuable when he’s able to sweep. And you’d have to move him to the wing and swap other things around.

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    Only change, Viney for Sharp and Fritch to start as sub again

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    Lever if he’s 100% right for AJ. Disco forward.

    Don’t love Viney for Sharp but that’s probably the move. Ideally we’d have a genuine half forward to come in but Casey is petty thin.

    With Viney back I’d like to see Rivers take some rotations as the 3rd wing. Chandler more forward to keep that pressure and forward craft.

    Wouldn’t be against a bit of shuffling the magnets with Langford deep forward in bursts and Lindsay high half forward. Just for development would be nice to give them some different looks

    Fritsch must stay as sub.

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    spargo out and never play again

    sharp out

    brown and viney in

    leave jake out to play a half at casey again, turner is our best defender so leave him down there ffs

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    Heard Lindsay has been taken to hospital.

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    1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Heard Lindsay has been taken to hospital.

    What for???

    4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Heard Lindsay has been taken to hospital.

    Dazzle, please tell me the punchline is 'for leather poisoning' and not something serious

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    44 minutes ago, Random Task said:

    Sharp for Viney would just about do it.

    Spargo probably gets a reprive with the dees win but first half wasn't great.

    Fritsch to start now as long as he keeps bringing that intensity.

    Edit: forgot Lever, will he need another run at Casey? If not it will probably mean Turner forward and Johnson out.

    Agree only change Viney in Dull out.

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    4 minutes ago, Demongirl35 said:

    The hit on his throat I’m guessing

    Not another larynx!

    (although potentially better than concussion if he recovers quickly)

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    Viney for Sharp

    Lever starts on the bench, for Linsay (if he doesn't get up)

    Keep Disco back, Petty forward

    Fritter or Spargo as sub

    Sydney are down Amartey and McInerney

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    Lindsay did take a hand to the face in the last Q

    Might be a precautionary eye situation

    If we win, we are well and truly back in the conversation for the 8. Beat St kilda the week after and go into Collingwood with nothing to lose and suddenly it’s become somewhat of a blockbuster fixture again.

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    These are the harder ones to determine. Viney for Sharp feels obvious, if Brown put in another good performance I'd like to see that rewards and have Spargo dropped. If Lever is fit he comes in, Disco goes forward, AJ (very unlucky) goes out.

    Fritta stays as the sub. He had an impact and that's what we need from the sub.

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    1 hour ago, Pates said:

    These are the harder ones to determine. Viney for Sharp feels obvious, if Brown put in another good performance I'd like to see that rewards and have Spargo dropped. If Lever is fit he comes in, Disco goes forward, AJ (very unlucky) goes out.

    Fritta stays as the sub. He had an impact and that's what we need from the sub.

    Spargo will stay rewarded for whatever Goody thinks he contributes, though I don’t know if anybody who knows what that is. Couldn’t even kick a set shot.

    Fritta will probably also be rewarded, though another week as sub would do him good.

    AJ has little skill but provides a very solid contest and does ok as back up ruck. No surprise that Max could come back on in the last bit of Q4 and really turn / save the game - would he have been able to do that without a real break?

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