02-25-2017, 09:05 AM
Different teams will have different priorities at this time of the year.
Melbourne's win over the Bulldogs indicates that they're using this series of matches to really push hard.
Whether that benefits them in a long season is to be determined.
Seven of our players played less than half of the game, so our priority today was giving them a taste. (Gorringe's injury apart, though it's likely he would have been less than 50% as well.)
I'm sure that experimentation applied to positional play as well.
We had different priorities to Melbourne today.
Winning wasn't one of them.
Those priorities will probably be different again next game culminating in the best possible line-up for when it really counts
Melbourne's win over the Bulldogs indicates that they're using this series of matches to really push hard.
Whether that benefits them in a long season is to be determined.
Seven of our players played less than half of the game, so our priority today was giving them a taste. (Gorringe's injury apart, though it's likely he would have been less than 50% as well.)
I'm sure that experimentation applied to positional play as well.
We had different priorities to Melbourne today.
Winning wasn't one of them.
Those priorities will probably be different again next game culminating in the best possible line-up for when it really counts
