Ouch!

Reckon that is the plan if we want to go more mobile! 🤣

just to remind Josh Schache that he's not alone?

TBH you could tell at Goody's presser yesterday that Fullerton was not going to get called up.

Only thing I can think of is that we are going smaller and mobile. It makes us unpredictable etc... But unless it's going to be wet, can't work it out, unless Fullerton is injured he should be playing. I could understand thinking Verral is still too raw. But playing Petty in ruck, he'll get injured. JVR rucks really well for his height, but constantly worry he's going to get hurt in there too. Makes no sense, and worse it sends a signal to the other talls at our club that the coaches don't rate you.

To be fair has a hard tag by Philips, but Viney, Sparrow, Tholstrup and Rivers stepping up, Oliver might need to play decoy and wear it tonight.

Nice to get an early one from Chandler and Petty! We need to see a 4 quarter effort tonight.

The other thing with this is that I am pretty certain Goody or someone within the coaching group, or Richo has said publicly that they wouldn't play a first gamer as the sub, as it's a special occasion, they look after the family, fly those from interstate etc... PS,... Tholstrup looking lively

nice 80m penalty! Surely Umps can work out a way to measure the distance, that's embarrassing!

... spoke too soon :D

Boys look a bit more switched on. Early days though. Rivers connecting well thru midfield.

Asking the wrong guy :) but he looked ok in the VFL a couple of weeks back, but did very little in the AFL in his first 3 games. Maybe he's been asked to work on some areas of his game in the VFL and will get another crack soon.

Fortunately for you, we have the match committee to do that role, you can take the night off 👍 10 players had 10 or less touches for the game when we played the Pies a couple of weeks ago. The kid isn't going to be a midfielder yet.

Not sure, but suspect it's based on the club seeing AMW as a defender, and therefore has to replace, Bowie, McVee or possibly Salem. Not saying they are in great form, but they aren't our poorest contributors either. Brown seen more as a small forward currently, and as such there is an opening in the team.

Not that it's science either, but every single fox sports tipster has gone Melbourne and none are tipping the roos either.

I too would like to know if anyone spits on our forwards.

unless training is at Casey 😁 otherwise looking forward to WCW's incoming report!

I think I am agreeing with you, my issue is that if what we assume to be the case is correct, Turner and Hooch (sorry Petty) are going to be playing as key forwards, we have essentially have named 5 key defenders against the Roos! JVR is still young, but he seems to have good forward craft, and going missing could be as much to do with our delivery into the forward line than him not being the right player. He needs another key tall in there that does know the craft. We just don't have anyone yet.

Or another idea, lets not play Turner as a defensive forward and give that role to Petty until he builds confidence and form. Not sure both fit in the forward line with Fritsch and JVR anyway. Oh, and perhaps give Petty a few runs in the ruck instead of JVR to allow him to get involved in the contest. JVR does a bloody good job as a chop out ruck, seems to time his taps very well (top of his leap) but always nervous seeing him contesting the ruck contests at his age, and at 194cm he's undersized (but he does compete very well in there!) As good as TMac has been, has that been at the cost of Tomlinson and Turner's development in our seniors as defensive key posts. I'm not complaining, but in a couple of years time TMac will likely be retired. Saw we are mentioned as being interested in Josh Battle recently, so thats potentially another key back if he agrees.

Remember last year, we refused to play Grundy in the seniors, and he was playing exclusively for a stretch in the VFL as a forward. Didn't work then, but perhaps Petty and Turner might 🤔 ... there wasn't a tongue in cheek emoji sorry.

I guess, at least pup plays with effort and gives his all. Surprised me at the start of the year in that praccie match.

Have to think that that Tholstrup likely sub based on who is named on the bench? We don't typically play first gamers as sub. Almost hope Turner is the sub, but only cos I can't quite see how he fits in the team with Petty, TMac and Tomlinson. As the armchair selector, I wonder whether we could have selected another running player or small? Cos lets be honest we have named 5 tall defenders. Woewodin, Laurie, McAdam, Billings or Sestans seem to have allowed for better balance, and Goody would feel comfortable subbing Woewodin or Laurie... 🙄

Or perhaps they are looking for other things that you and I don't see. One thing I did get from the preseason was that effort of Brown was massive, and there was nothing much left in the tank afterwards. I imagine and hope, there will be a few more changes announced tomorrow, and AMW is likely not going to get a shot unless a smaller defender goes down. Sestans can't be too far I wouldn't think.

I also think that we looked better when Brayshaw played as a defensive wing, and we looked to attack through Langdon's wing. we also might have had Hunt on that half back as well, but we looked to run and carry and were a lot more attacking albeit one sided. Don't think we've looked as dominant down the wings when we bought Hunter in on the other wing and balance it up.

It was mentioned that Lever would have minor surgery and that they were targetting him being back for the first game after the bye. Haven't heard anything since, but it's also somewhat consistent with the injury reports. Guess the true test will be watching training and whether he's participating.

yep agree 100%, combined with us as a team that don't have a lot of players who are precise by foot & missing targets, especially whilst under pressure from a fleet footed football team (say that three times after a few beers!) and our backline is never going to cope.