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Round One team (the one TFS made up.. use the other thread)

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Bartram Miller Whelan

Davey McLean Jones

Moloney Robbo Newton

Green Neitz Yze

White Bruce Junior

 

Hooray for Rivers (stupid me didn't pick that up on The Footy Show. Glad not every Demonland member is blind ;)).

Very strange that Bell has been named on the bench. He is the perfect match-up for Williams, so not sure what the deal is there.

Bench would probably be Petterd, Bell, Dunn and PJ/Jamar. Mind you, Buckley deserves to play, so perhaps Dunn will miss out, or perhaps a late change with one of Whelan or Bartram not playing.

Miller and Carroll to take on Buddy?

And I would love to see Bartram play a run-with-role on Mitchell. If we shut him down, we are half way there given no Hodge and no Crawf.

Interesting that Green has been named in the forward line and Davey in the midfield.

BRING IT ON! :D

Frawley Carroll Holland

Bartram Miller Whelan

Davey McLean Jones

Moloney Robbo Newton

Green Neitz Yze

White Bruce Junior

I/C Petterd Maric Dunn P Johnson Bell Rivers Buckley Jamar

Pretty 'big' squad so one imagines Frawley, Holland, Jamar won't play and question marks over Bartram, Whelan possibly Maric.

Decent side, albeit on the slow side.
 

It's not hard and fast but usually the 18 named are fixtures. New coach, so I'm unsure.

It's not hard and fast but usually the 18 named are fixtures. New coach, so I'm unsure.

I doubt if the coach picked that team

More likely a squad of players were given to channel 9 and they picked the side.


i dont like the line up but i am interested to see what happens

would have liked to have seen buckley in the top four on the I/C if that is anything to go by these days

i dont think marric is ready yet

i think morton should atleast be on the extended bench

i dont like robbo at CHF and Miller at CHB

i dont think Whelan is ready yet going by what i heard on the weekend

IMO, i hope this is just a bit of a quick think up from the club trying to get some sort of line up going to show on the footy show but will change a lot in the next couple of days before the match and surprise the hawks

if not, bailey is the expert and not me, and i hope things work out with whatever he does

I doubt if the coach picked that team

More likely a squad of players were given to channel 9 and they picked the side.

More likely you're wrong. The team/squad would have been submitted by MFC.

And Nugget. FFS, don't worry about the named positions.

Yes the MFC picked the squad but not the team....Channel 9 have doing that for years when they do the Wednesday nights footy show for weekend games.
 
More likely you're wrong. The team/squad would have been submitted by MFC.

And Nugget. FFS, don't worry about the named positions.

yeah i know mate, but it is still such a bad line up IMO and that's why i said this

i dont think Whelan is ready yet going by what i heard on the weekend

IMO, i hope this is just a bit of a quick think up from the club trying to get some sort of line up going to show on the footy show but will change a lot in the next couple of days before the match and surprise the hawks

we dont know if it was a quick fix or if the club sent in a list of players in the squad


I presume that is not even the official squad that would be submitted to the AFL, as we still have at least a day to do so. Therefore quite a few changes, even to that squad could take place before the deadline.

channel 9 just had a go at making that up... there's no way the team will look like that...

only the sides playing tomorrow have had to release any type of official squad, we will name a squad of 25 tomorrow i would think, with the 22 named friday night/saturday morning... i mean they've named whelan on a half back flank, carroll holland frawley and miller all in the one backline? don't think so

channel 9 just had a go at making that up... there's no way the team will look like that...

only the sides playing tomorrow have had to release any type of official squad, we will name a squad of 25 tomorrow i would think, with the 22 named friday night/saturday morning... i mean they've named whelan on a half back flank, carroll holland frawley and miller all in the one backline? don't think so

Both Foxtel's AFL Teams programme and The Footy Shoe selected make believe teams for their audiences (apart from the ones for tonight's games).

Yes the MFC picked the squad but not the team....Channel 9 have doing that for years when they do the Wednesday nights footy show for weekend games.

Why do they bother doing these teams on a Wednesday night? Seems like a waste of time.

Hope Bartram and Rivers get up.

I'll be stunned if Whelan plays.

Buckley deserves a round 1 start


I doubt if the coach picked that team

More likely a squad of players were given to channel 9 and they picked the side.

If channel 9 picked the side, I'd imagine they would've put Rivers in the starting 18 considering he's our premium defender.

wheels! :wub: wow how pumped are we that the season is only 8 and a half hours away, or more to the point a little over three days

very interested to see maric got named in the squad. did he play the last two rounds of pre-season with the dees or sandy? pretty sure he played the last with sandy, so bailey must be pretty impressed with him to see him get at least a mention.

yze gets a go? great to see names like bartram moloney rivers whelan in the team, even if they don't get up this week

GO THE DEES

channel 9 just had a go at making that up... there's no way the team will look like that...

only the sides playing tomorrow have had to release any type of official squad, we will name a squad of 25 tomorrow i would think, with the 22 named friday night/saturday morning... i mean they've named whelan on a half back flank, carroll holland frawley and miller all in the one backline? don't think so

Stewart Dew was named in a back pocket. That says it all. The named squad is just a taster, a show filler.

Stewart Dew was named in a back pocket. That says it all. The named squad is just a taster, a show filler.

Yeah and i prefer it too. How bad would a simple list of players be?

Great to see that our new gun ruckman from Adelaide has impressed over summer.


Given what we paid I doubt our FD considered him to be a "gun".

And you needed to waste your time responding ?

And you needed to waste your time responding ?

Probably not but it's an issue that's worthy of it's own discussion, especially if the trend continues

 

squad gets released this afternoon right?


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