07-03-2017, 01:00 AM
Nobody seems to have worried about this game yet.
[1] Melbourne have injuries and they cannot cover them as well as some others do. They will be missing players they think of as being critical. To me, Viney is their biggest 'out'.
[2] We have played quite well against higher ranked teams of late.
[3] Alex Silvagni is a chance to be available. Not a certainty, but a chance. Lamb and Curnow may be back, if they have recovered from what Richmond dealt them. Boekhorst responded to being dropped the way we would like all of our dropped players to respond, with leather poisoning. Smedts likewise stood up. Palmer, like Kerridge, has probably done enough to get a recall, but do we go with another experienced player or a kid? SPS is also returning, hopefully with the hunger to get the ball again.
[4] Caleb Marchbank and Lachie Plowman both have some injury concerns. Neither are definitely out as yet. Both are hoping to be fit enough to play.
[5] Who, if anyone, do we drop? Silvagni's recent form has not been so good, but he is young and talented. Fisher didn't set the world on fire on Saturday, with 9 or 10 possessions. Cuningham likewise, although he was involved in a couple of very important pieces of play. Gussy Sheahan started like a house on fire (except that he couldn't hit a barn), but dropped out of the game (he defended well enough, but he had only 3 or 4 possessions after quarter time).
I wouldn't be dropping White. He did very well.
Sumner might put on good pressure, but he can't seem to get more than 10 possessions in a game. We cannot afford the luxury of guys like that.
[1] Melbourne have injuries and they cannot cover them as well as some others do. They will be missing players they think of as being critical. To me, Viney is their biggest 'out'.
[2] We have played quite well against higher ranked teams of late.
[3] Alex Silvagni is a chance to be available. Not a certainty, but a chance. Lamb and Curnow may be back, if they have recovered from what Richmond dealt them. Boekhorst responded to being dropped the way we would like all of our dropped players to respond, with leather poisoning. Smedts likewise stood up. Palmer, like Kerridge, has probably done enough to get a recall, but do we go with another experienced player or a kid? SPS is also returning, hopefully with the hunger to get the ball again.
[4] Caleb Marchbank and Lachie Plowman both have some injury concerns. Neither are definitely out as yet. Both are hoping to be fit enough to play.
[5] Who, if anyone, do we drop? Silvagni's recent form has not been so good, but he is young and talented. Fisher didn't set the world on fire on Saturday, with 9 or 10 possessions. Cuningham likewise, although he was involved in a couple of very important pieces of play. Gussy Sheahan started like a house on fire (except that he couldn't hit a barn), but dropped out of the game (he defended well enough, but he had only 3 or 4 possessions after quarter time).
I wouldn't be dropping White. He did very well.
Sumner might put on good pressure, but he can't seem to get more than 10 possessions in a game. We cannot afford the luxury of guys like that.
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