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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.

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.

can we trade CJ and our first round pick for judd? is that a bit like selling our soul (father son) for the devil?

obviously the typical description of laconic didnt apply to TJ this time. using it would definitely be a malapropism who says i don't learn stuff on demonland lol

suspended? that means you send someone else to do it next time

very well said fan. bell will get a big run in the centre this year, but not until our injuries work out a little bit... i cant imagine sylvia playing across the HBF, unless they are playing a 5 man forward line and sylvia is the loose man. he cant be held responsible for someone else, but he would provide good run i believe. i'd like to see him pushed into the middle more this week.

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

yze has been playing pretty good footy further up the ground getting close to 30 touches a week.id rather him up there than davey atm. pickett is out. but even if he was in he has never really played in the forward pocket. the goals he has scored have come playing across the half forward or running from the midfield...

scrap that comment he is an emergency...

did they say if pickett was injured or omitted?

if col and davey are on the wing who is playing short in the forward line?

it seems that this thread was really lost on the majority of people around here doesnt it?

is that a bold prediction or the beauty of hindsight dfjezza?

newton kicked 52 for sandy 2nds last year, including a haul of 12 in one game. brad miller is currently leading our clubs goal kicking with 7 goals for the season. make of that what you will. im not saying he is a scoring force but he has been doing his job. he kicks more goals when he is played closer to goal. when neitz came back he was moved outside the forward 50. thats a pretty good indication that ND is playing him up the ground rather than as a goalkicker. i stand corrected

lol fair enough...i have always thought of him as a little bit slighter than some of the other mids we have... buckley h 189cm w 87kg maloney 182 88 CJ 188 87 the above is from the melb website, he is smaller than maloney but about the same size as CJ...tbh i didnt realise buckly was so tall...

they aren't. i was being a bit sarcastic. before the terrorists struck the world in the name of islam no one looked twice at a muslim. now there is focus on them all the time. your average run of the mill muslim is no different from your christian or your atheiest. the corrupt side of things is the same no matter what religion it is. in islam the popular opinion is 'terrorist' for catholicism its the 'pedophile priest'. who cares what religion he is. my point is that no one would have cared before 9/11 we live in a different world now though.

yeah i was thinking that too. it does suggest that maybe garland was mentally ready for those types of challenges whereas newton isnt and bucklys small body might not stand up to it? maybe the coaching and selection staff put more thought into this than we give them credit for...

how bout houli is the first muslim post 9/11, the date that people became "aware" that muslims were different from everyone else.

i think we're going to be a lot taller than the doggies. whether thats on purpose, and a good idea or not time will tell.

i was going to point out that top 3 draft pick doesnt mean everything. then i read your member name...

i'd like to hear the opinion on some of the guys who get to sandy every week on this. from what i can tell he has had 2 great weeks in a row but hadnt done much before that this year. he went missing in the preseason games. he only just turned 20 (like last week). that makes him very young, even in football speak, for a tall forward. he could debut next season at the age of 20. this is his 3rd year on the list, and while he has obvious talent maybe he isnt as mature as some of the other guys. if the club is waiting for all aspects of newton to be ready for the pressures of afl footythen this might be a good thing. if he is being held back for another reason i'd like to know as well...

you havnt been following melbourne long enough then... yup...was meant to be studying. unfortunately that took a back seat for a while as i read every website i knew. twice. lol

i find it very strange that they would name frawley on the bench for the afl side after playing only half a game in the sandy reserves in which he got a broken nose, apparently a concussion and the team got belted. sounds like the treatment reserved for an established star. either they rate him very highly or they think someone won't get up and he is the cover. they won't drop pickett. so i think someone will pull out of the 18...

i was saying a similar thing in the thread called 'structure' or similar. it is up to the half forwards and the mids to make sure there is room for the forwards to lead into...

im one off the pace...pity there is no prizes in this oen, just glory! in the other comp im up for 6-700 first prize and bout 80 for 6th. im currently 3 off the lead but about 12 on the ladder (ive got the best margin for those on 28 points). is there a TBO hotdog in it this year?