With Rivers still out and Bizzel playing okay we need some stability and maturity in the backline.

Also Ferguson needs another go to prove himself at the top level. I would bring him back before Buckley.

Also TJ has Achilles problems before the game and probably only played for ND's last game. A painful injury!

i think this is how we will look this week... with Miller, Fergie and Pickett to be named the emergencies...

Backs: D.Ward, N.Carroll, P.Wheatley

Half backs: N.Brown, J.Frawley, C.Bizzell

Centreline: C.Bruce, J.McDonald, A.Davey

Half forwards: S.Godfrey, R.Robertson, M.Bate

Forwards: C.Sylvia, M.Newton, R.Petterd

Followers: J.White, B.McLean, N.Jones

I/C: P.Johnson, C.Johnson, L.Dunn, S.Buckley, B.Miller, R.Ferguson, B.Pickett

Out: D.Bell (inj), B.Green (inj), D.Neitz (inj), T.Johnstone (inj),

In: J.Frawley, L.Dunn, C.Johnson, S.Buckley, R.Ferguson, B.Pickett, B.Miller

this is probably the hardest week to predict selection as it's our first week with Bomber Riley at the helm... however i think our side will look like this...

the one i've been unsure about is miller... there is room to bring him in, but do we want him to disrupt our forward setup? if he comes in i would only play him back, hence he's an emergency...

I doubt Frawley will be in. He did not play last week as Sandy had a bye. I think Riley will throw a challenge at Miller.

Ha... Ha... Ha

Look at that list, what a joke!

Neita has a hamstring injury now as well, does he?

Yze, Bartram and 122 (that's Rivers for those who haven't figured it out) are done for this season.

I've had enough of 2007. Send everyone into surgery, wrap them in cotton wool, and start again in October.

And without knowing anything about physiology or sports science, I dare suggest that we need to look at the fact that in Bodan's first season at the club, we've had more injuries than I can remember.

Probably not his fault, but we can't rule it out. Especially given we'll review the entire football department in the next few months.

Whilst I don't really know for sure, I would like to cut Bodan some slack. It would not have been his Idea for the players to all lose weight to gain 'bigger engines' & more speed. We know from Paul Gardner himself that the football staff decided to 'go all out running' this year which in itself resulted in Bodan's appointment & his brief therefore was to build both extra stamina & speed into the players both @ the same time. Building extra speed & sprint training results in more highly tuned leg muscles which of course are likely to break down, like any ultra light high performance vehicle. You trade some reliability for added speed.

The ostioitus problems are a common ill thru the league, i don't think we can blame bodan for that, especially where some players have carried the complaint for some years, (sylvia).

2-3 with a calf?? far out, that boy is getting troublesome! didn't people who watched his last sandy game say he was favouring one arm?

Whilst I don't really know for sure, I would like to cut Bodan some slack. It would not have been his Idea for the players to all lose weight to gain 'bigger engines' & more speed. We know from Paul Gardner himself that the football staff decided to 'go all out running' this year which in itself resulted in Bodan's appointment & his brief therefore was to build both extra stamina & speed into the players both @ the same time. Building extra speed & sprint training results in more highly tuned leg muscles which of course are likely to break down, like any ultra light high performance vehicle. You trade some reliability for added speed.

The ostioitus problems are a common ill thru the league, i don't think we can blame bodan for that, especially where some players have carried the complaint for some years, (sylvia).

I'm not sure how it works but weren't we supposed to become a super fit team that would finish off matches full of running? All that's happening these days is we're getting run over!