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They play different positions to be fair. Hannan's last quarter was good last week and was always likely to stay in.
Unless Bont, Libba, Treloar and Macrae are out and Toby can get inside mid time, it looks like he’ll have to play the waiting game. I do wish we could find a spot for him though, he is a jet.
Have you heard it's only a week off for Baz? Calf injuries can take a while.I also think the MC would be wary in adding another poor/slow user to the defensive mix. O’Brien isn’t amazing but probably safer than Gards.
I’m happy with that decision, it’ll give us a real opportunity to see O’Brien in the role he should be playing as a 3rd tall. His intercept marking was really strong in his first few games but he just wasn’t suited to being a genuine key defender, so I’ll hold out some hope he may go okay.
Sucks with Baz but a week off might do him good, McComb out is great and Hannan might be alright especially if it’s wet and his sloppiness is neutralised and his big body for crashing packs could be an asset in a contested game.
Yeah I thought especially with Bailey Smith out though, there's some extra rotations available in the middle now that Toby could have stepped in to. Oh well, should be sub at least hopefully...
Who takes the mid rotations, Bont, Libba, Macrae, Treloar only seems light on a touch….Yeah I thought especially with Bailey Smith out though, there's some extra rotations available in the middle now that Toby could have stepped in to. Oh well, should be sub at least hopefully...
Other than that he was solidHannan ? His duffing a kick in the GOAL SQUARE is forever etched into my frontal lobe.. Never again..
Isn't Toby an emergency?Who takes the mid rotations, Bont, Libba, Macrae, Treloar only seems light on a touch….
Cody maybe but probably not first week back
Has looked pretty done at AFL level too I’ve thought unfortunately, hope he can turn it around but not exactly confident.Duryea wasn't all that great in the VFL. Looked slow and was caught a lot. Looked like he was nearing the end. Hopefully, we can get still get some good games from him
Hopefully sub but point still standsIsn't Toby an emergency?
I'd say Weightman will also pinch hit in there.Hopefully sub but point still stands
Because he's been one of the better performing defenders in the VFL.
I can think of three:
1. He is another of the Hawthorn production line that followed Bevo over.
2. He had a pretty good game in the VFL last week from all reports, better than Gardner.
3. Keath is out due to concussion protocols.
$3m bucks please.
He has been in better VFL form than Gardner I guess and is probably getting one more chance at AFL level to succeed before getting delisted.
My guess is that if Gardner was 100% then he’d definitely be in the team ahead of him but he hasn’t quite looked right yet*
*Ive only seen bits and pieces (not full games) so can only take that with a grain of salt
I feel it’s because he can play the intercept marking role whereas Gards is a pure lockdown type.$1 million to anybody that can provide a logical reason for Tim O’Brien being selected in the 22
Wines is carrying an injuryI don’t understand not including Toby given he’s pretty much a direct replacement for whatever role McComb was playing with the added benefit of picking up some of Smith’s midfield absence.
We’re going to see Caleb play significant midfield minutes and Port have a few bigger powerful midfielders.
Come on .. this crap of "X player wasn't picked, will probably leave at the end of the year" each week on this board is a bit over the top.Any danger of playing Buku in his natural position as an intercepting defender, rather than picking TOB?
Won’t be at all surprised if Buku gets picked up elsewhere in the off season.
There were no games including west coast or north melbourne in those stats mate. As I said above, in games between top 8 teams only. I literally did your work for you and disproved your own claim.
I'd suggest you might watch our games but I doubt you watch every single game, and therefore don't really have a good grasp on our relative performance. The data speaks for itself.
Yes, sometimes we dominate possession and don't score, as happens to every single other team in the league at times. There is nothing showing this happens to us more than other teams. In fact scoring efficiency would show that it happens to us LESS than other teams. Multiple-season long data sets show that we're stacking up well against our peers in terms of scoring performance.
Again, find me any metric that supports your claims and I'll consider it. As it stands every metric shows otherwise to what you're claiming.