Pre Season Hit Out vs Geelong

[DJC]

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.