Really?
I would thought the guy with finals experience, premiership player and all around better player made more sense..
Bedford as a sub makes zero sense imo. Whilst you say he's played a little bit of mid at Casey, he has not once been used in that position at AFL and nor will he be given an opportunity especially pressure cooker of finals.
And as for having experience of coming on as a sub. Well he's started off as sub in 12 games this and has only ever come on mid way in only 2 games. Would you say that's actually experience enough?
Between the two, Bowey offers more versatility as he was an elite junior prospect playing as a midfield/half forward. Not that they will use him in that position anyway if he was to be a sub and come on.
3 players stick out for me as sub options and they are Adam Tomlinson, Joel Smith and Luke Dunstan.