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On the other hand their back up rucks are as bad as ours, their defence is setting up terribly and their forwards are not playing well. No Mundy to bully us into submission as well. And they are slow, painfully slow.
Rowe can match up Pav and Doc and Plow can take Ballantyne and his mate.
I give us a fighting chance if we're fair dinkum and (unlikely as it seems) with get a fair run with officialdom.
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(04-17-2016, 10:06 PM)Professer E link Wrote:On the other hand their back up rucks are as bad as ours, their defence is setting up terribly and their forwards are not playing well. No Mundy to bully us into submission as well. And they are slow, painfully slow.
Rowe can match up Pav and Doc and Plow can take Ballantyne and his mate.
I give us a fighting chance if we're fair dinkum and (unlikely as it seems) with get a fair run with officialdom.
They report he's a chance, but I doubt it if his calf is anything more than a bruise.
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(04-17-2016, 09:29 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Crash,
I tried to follow your format. Please correct it if you need to.
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Dockers found some real form today against very good opposition, kicking over 100 points, which could easily have been more.
Dockers by 7 goals. No problems with the format, mate.
I wish I could argue with your conclusion, but they are playing at home and we can't kick enough goals.
I liked our play after half time against the Dogs, but we really found it hard to kick a goal then. We simply shouldn't have lost by as much as we did. The positive is that Freo don't score like the Dogs, which gives us a chance. But their effort was a big improvement and they are a more mature team. 
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(04-17-2016, 10:17 PM)crashlander link Wrote:No problems with the format, mate.
I wish I could argue with your conclusion, but they are playing at home and we can't kick enough goals.
I liked our play after half time against the Dogs, but we really found it hard to kick a goal then. We simply shouldn't have lost by as much as we did. The positive is that Freo don't score like the Dogs, which gives us a chance. But their effort was a big improvement and they are a more mature team.
Yes, even though they are winless like us and sit just above us on the ladder, I reckon they can smell some easy prey, and will be primed for their first win.
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In Smith, out Buckley.
Freo took it right up to North for most of the game yesterday, we won't get within 6 goals of them in Perth.
Jones needs a few good VFL games on the trot as far as I'm concerned.
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Out: Phillips, Buckley.
In: Jones, Armfield.
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Our main need will be for some more goal kicking ability so Jones, Jaksch and Everitt must be in with a show, although I would rather see Jones perform consistently in the VFL for a couple of more weeks before he get's another chance in the seniors.
We also need more F50 pressure so maybe Armfield and Clem are in with a show - I wouldn't be surprised to see Murph "rested" after his knock.
Don't think Phillips will be dropped - he went OK IMO. Buckley looks likely to be gone though.
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To drop Phillips over Kreuzer would just be wrong IMO, Kreuzer is literally hopeless and seems to have lost his ability to play, definitely a stint in the twos for him.
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(04-18-2016, 04:16 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:Our main need will be for some more goal kicking ability so Jones, Jaksch and Everitt must be in with a show, although I would rather see Jones perform consistently in the VFL for a couple of more weeks before he get's another chance in the seniors.
We also need more F50 pressure so maybe Armfield and Clem are in with a show - I wouldn't be surprised to see Murph "rested" after his knock.
Don't think Phillips will be dropped - he went OK IMO. Buckley looks likely to be gone though.
The tall in the gun will be Casboult, these sort of stats don't cut it;
Code: Player Name K H D M HO T FF FA G B SC Rat
Levi Casboult 5 3 8 6 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 49
I think we will need to go for pace as the best option to carve up Freo.
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(04-18-2016, 05:49 AM)LP link Wrote:The tall in the gun will be Casboult, these sort of stats don't cut it;
Code: Player Name K H D M HO T FF FA G B SC Rat
Levi Casboult 5 3 8 6 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 49
I think we will need to go for pace as the best option to carve up Freo.
I'd play Jones and Jaksch and use Casboult as the second ruckman around the ground....agree Freo on a dry track will probably require some more pace but I think we need to kick goals to win and I'd be using an extra tall down forward rather than just going with Casboult alone..
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