Last Practice Match v Sydney

[ElwoodBlues1]

So based on tonight, the following won't be playing rnd 1:
Ed C
Honey
LOB
Plow
Dow
Owies

The following are on shaky ground
Durdin or Young  will fight of the second tall roll. Young was ordinary
Both rucks didn't impress me which is a worry
Jesse Motlop needs to do a truckload more than that, for a bloke who supposedly had a massive preseason, dunno. Is he struggling with the training load? What will save Motlop is Owies very ordinary performance and C Durdin's injury.
The rest be there about at selection but they'd wanna be better than that as a collective.
Its a preseason hit out at the end of the day, plenty to work on and time to correct it. Ball use better be way better than that v Rich.
No injuries which is a great thing.
Moo and Dutchy will be in very strong contention rnd 1.

Think you would still go with Young over S. Durdin...agree though that Young was poor tonight.
Reckon the rucks will be TDK as No 1 and Pittonet off the bench, both were average tonight and Ladhams was the most effective big bloke on the park.
Motlop always looks like he is cruising and could go up a gear, hoping round 1 he gets a bit more hungry...
McGovern will come in for Plowman I would expect..
Hollands and Cowan have probably played themselves into the round 1 team although playing raw newbies vs that hard experienced Richmond lineup concerns me a bit but I guess its about the future and both look good long term players in the making.