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(02-23-2024, 04:37 AM)RiverRat link Wrote:H appears to have been coached and looked much more at home in the ruck than ever before. Maybe there is an intention to have him spend more time in the ruck this season. If so, hopefully he will be resilient because I don't know if we can afford for him to get injured.
TDK also seemed to have more strength to body up against his ruck opponents - not that the pussies are generally considered to be strong in that department.
I like the games of both Hollands brothers but the big positive for me was the fact that Cripps appeared to be more mobile and to have a bit more zip - maybe he has dropped a little weight and done some speed/agility work or maybe he is just injury free for a change.
Cripps was outstanding early but had a bit of a spell later in the game and dropped back to just very good. Based on his early game form, I’d say he is in for a big year.
Ollie Hollands was very impressive. Elijah was good but I don’t think he has Ollie’s footy smarts.
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Final tune up coming this week.
There is no more tinkering and experimentations. Best team to play.
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Id be trialling Sam Durdin at FB this week vs Melbourne but would also play Young in the backline, Weitering is such a hard player to replace we may have to use a combination of S. Durdin and Young to try and cover the FB position.
While you dont judge a player on one practice game I felt Young's lack of form was continuing where he left off last season and Id like a plan B. Martin will be equally hard to replace down the other end given his value is in the quality of possessions rather than the number and if he is also missing Id expect Fantasia to provide that creativity and would want to see him shine vs the Dees.
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(02-24-2024, 04:45 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Id be trialling Sam Durdin at FB this week vs Melbourne but would also play Young in the backline, Weitering is such a hard player to replace we may have to use a combination of S. Durdin and Young to try and cover the FB position.
While you dont judge a player on one practice game I felt Young's lack of form was continuing where he left off last season and Id like a plan B. Martin will be equally hard to replace down the other end given his value is in the quality of possessions rather than the number and if he is also missing Id expect Fantasia to provide that creativity and would want to see him shine vs the Dees.
Apart from the size mismatches with Geelong's two gorillas (plus Cameron) to our one gorilla minder, Kempy had a shocker and we didn't play our normal whole of team defence. I reckon Weiters would have struggled in those circumstances.
Melbourne's midfielders and small/medium forwards are probably more dangerous than their talls but they could still stretch our defence with Gawn, Schache and Verrall. Kemp should be more comfortable manning Van Rooyen but I'd like to see tall Durds out there with Young.
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Harry's copped a bit of flack regarding his goalkicking in recent times...
But Charlie is a bit off the boil too.
His last 8 games have produced...
1,2,5,3,1,1,1 and just 1 in the Geelong practice game.
We know he's just as likely to come out and kick a bag at any stage, but it would be good to see him amongst the goals in the next outing.
