Who is in your team for Round 1?

[LP]

B Newman    McDonald    McGovern
HB  Williams    Weitering    Saad
C     O'Brien    Cripps    Docherty
HF    Fisher    Curnow, C    Silvagni
F    Owies  McKay    De Koning
Fol     Pittonet  Hewett  Cerra
Int   Kemp, Kennedy, Durdin, Williamson
Sub  Setterfield
Emerg  Curnow, E, Plowman, Young

It's a pretty top heavy side compared to our pre-season running game. I'm not sure you get Williamson and McDonald in the one team, I think they are either / or for D50 and McGovern will have a HBF/CHB stitched up. Similarly, to me the F50 looks one starting tall too many, I can't say who'll get the gig or get the ar5e but somebody will because if you add some run you can't start all those talls on the bench.

Maybe only one of either Kemp or SoJ get a gig from the bench, because if Charlie is in I doubt we have all of BigH, De Koning and Charlie starting in F50. De Koning has enough run to start on the bench and play F50 or D50, I could even see SoJ or De Koning as a wing option for the hit up marking target if they want Charlie to stay in goal range and bring a small / rover inside F50, maybe the resting / rotating mid.

De Koning and Kemp and SoJ jumping at the footy in BigH's absence worked OK, but only because we basically had Durdin, Fisher and Owies at the feet all at once. Take one of the smalls away and the dynamic changes significantly.

McDonald vs Plowman might be one of those horses for courses selections, when we want change the mobility dynamic.

Weather is expected to be warm with showers, not really your ideal tall marking conditions.