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Backs: Lewis Young Oscar McDonald Zac Williams
Half-backs: Nic Newman Mitch McGovern Adam Saad
Centreline: Will Setterfield Patrick Cripps Lochie O'Brien
Half-forwards: Matthew Owies Jack Silvagni Zac Fisher
Forwards: Corey Durdin Harry McKay Tom De Koning
Followers: Marc Pittonet George Hewett Adam Cerra
Interchange: Jordan Boyd Matthew Cottrell Ed Curnow Matthew Kennedy Jack Martin Luke Parks Lachie Plowman
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No Paddy Dow again! The coach sees something he doesn't like?!?!
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(03-02-2022, 06:56 AM)townsendcalling link Wrote: No Paddy Dow again! The coach sees something he doesn't like?!?!
Perhaps Dow's already pencilled in for Round 1 :-\
A few fringe players made it to the interchange bench but Fogarty's cameo wasn't enough to get him a game.
Lewis Young gets a chance to press for selection in Round 1. At this stage he's third banana behind Weitering and McDonald.
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re Dow...
Vossy said in an interview, specifically about him, that there is only so many people you can play in the team at once....and only so many positions a player can play.
Dow is clearly a mid.
We have plenty of other mids who need time in the middle - Cerra, Hewitt, Cripps as starters (with Walsh out) and with Kennedy, Ed (who didn't play last week) and a few others basically fighting for the same spot.
I think Dow needs another string to his bow, so we can rest him forward (or back) when he isn't used in the middle.
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(03-02-2022, 07:47 AM)kruddler link Wrote:re Dow...
Vossy said in an interview, specifically about him, that there is only so many people you can play in the team at once....and only so many positions a player can play.
Dow is clearly a mid.
We have plenty of other mids who need time in the middle - Cerra, Hewitt, Cripps as starters (with Walsh out) and with Kennedy, Ed (who didn't play last week) and a few others basically fighting for the same spot.
I think Dow needs another string to his bow, so we can rest him forward (or back) when he isn't used in the middle.
We do need some outside run and none of those above give us breakaway pace. For that reason I think it’s a mistake not investing more time in Dow.
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Given Young has experience as a ruckman, he might be able to pull double-duty as the tall defender taking boundary throw-ins inside D50. Some teams will have their power forward taking those stoppages and throwing a non-rucking KPD into those contests is risky. Giving away frees in that part of the ground is disastrous and you don't want to allow guys like Hawkins to rip the ball out of the air and have a ping at goal. That'll allow Pittonet & TDK to limit their area of operations.
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(03-03-2022, 12:07 AM)Mav date Wrote:Given Young has experience as a ruckman, he might be able to pull double-duty as the tall defender taking boundary throw-ins inside D50. Maybe, not sure that is fair for Young when he is in as a Weiter's substitute, although in the absence of English I believe he did that very role for the Dogs at stages last season!
Personally, I'd be more inclined to let Pitto camp on the defensive side after the bounce, and let Young and De Koning get on their bike pushing forward both kids have reasonable wheels and should be capable of matching Gawn on the run.
PS; I've heard Gawn might be a late out or on reduced game time.
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Does anyone know if the VFL game will be televised anywhere, think it is on before the AFL game? Would love to see Doc's take the field.
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Young has mainly been a tall defender and was thrown into the ruck last year as English was needed to replace Josh Bruce up forward and Stefan Martin was injured. The consensus seems to be that he was monstered by the big ruckmen and when Martin came back from injury he lost his spot to him in the PF & GF. That resulted in his request for a trade at the start of Trade Week. I'd imagine he's hoping to carve out a spot in defence rather than as a 2nd string ruck with us. But his experience in the ruck and his height give him a point of difference that might help him do this.
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(03-03-2022, 12:42 AM)NudeNut link Wrote:Does anyone know if the VFL game will be televised anywhere, think it is on before the AFL game? Would love to see Doc's take the field. It isn't on Fox Footy, I can tell you that. Unless Kayo is doing it, you'd have to scour the internet to see if there's any app for VFL matches, but it's unlikely there'll be any coverage of VFL practice matches.
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Can anyone confirm who sits on the current MC?
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