Agreed!! As soon as we lose everyone is too quick to jump on the bandwagon of who should be dropped. People are saying Dunn needs to come in just because of experience? If they can't see him playing a role in helping the team to a win he shouldn't come in. People saying Tyson should go out. At least he has some experience as well if we are wanting to go with experience over Hawthorn. Yes, he was terrible today but also not the only one who was. He is capable of a much better game and shouldn't be dropped off today's game. He missed last week with illness, do we actually know what the illness was yet? Didn't train Tuesday as far as I saw and then travelled up to Alice possibly a bit flat coming off illness. I doubt he will still be sick next weekend he has a weeks break before we play again and we play at home, so I'd be concerned if they played him this week but pulled him next week due to illness again. ANB also not great today but I think deserves another chance off the back of last week and VFL form. It's not a handful of players that are to blame for today, it's the team as a whole it really looked like all of them were missing in action today.
Also so agree on Harmes, Wagner etc. I think they look tired and the club needs to determine how they will manage our younger guys coming in to the bye. Petracca is going to be a gun. He's played a handful of games and is still finding his feet. He's missed a lot of footy. People saying Mccartin a better option, for us to be honest I don't think he is. The saints needed that and we didn't. I too believe petracca will be the better player. We also took some key forwards in last years draft, and of we are patient with him and he is given time to develop I think Weideman has the potential to be a much better player than Mccartin so I think we may have won that one.
Will be be interested to see what happens at match selection this week when the time comes!