Preview Round 7, 2021: Saints v Hawks, at Marvel, Sat 1st May @ 4:35pm

[LMGjr]

you've had 2 cracks at this and they've both been terrible

Having an absolute mare here mate.

I see what you did

 

[theiaofseed]

Howe the emergency you would imagine

 

[WWSD]

ROUND 7 TEAM
St Kilda v Hawthorn
Saturday 1st May, 4.35pm AEST

IN: Jack Gunston, Emerson Jeka, Finn Maginness

OUT: Chad Wingard (managed), Jaeger O'Meara (managed), Shaun Burgoyne (ankle)

B: Blake Hardwick, Kyle Hartigan, Changkuoth Jiath
HB: Jack Scrimshaw, Sam Frost, Harry Morrison
C: Tom Phillips, James Worpel, James Cousins
HF: Dylan Moore, Jack Gunston, Liam Shiels
F: Jacob Koschitzke, Tim O'Brien, Emerson Jeka
R: Ben McEvoy, Tom Mitchell, Luke Breust
INT: Mitch Lewis, Finn Maginness, Oliver Hanrahan, Jarman Impey

Emer: Damon Greaves, Conor Nash, Michael Hartley, Dan Howe

 

[Dew2KFC2Flag08]

JOM and Chad. Wow.

 

[TylerDurden]

Chad hurts.

Howe the sub I reckon.

 

[PT Bar None]

Wingard has been copping a lot of heavy attention the last week or few.

Understandable he's sore in hindsight.

 

[theiaofseed]

Jeez that really hurts our midfield. I was looking forward to Chad getting more rotations through that space but now we look veeeeery light in that space.
Going to be an interesting setup for us now!

Mitchell, Worpel, Cousins, Maginness Very young midfield.

Breust named as a rover is interesting.

 

[spudmaster]

Sheesh, a tough debut for a forward with our midfield missing those two.

 

[Roddy]

Wingard and O'Meara 'managed'....all I can think is that we must be pretty confident of beating the saints.

 

[rei154]

Mitchell, Worpel, Cousins, Maginness Very young midfield.

Breust named as a rover is interesting.

Yep- can't help but feel that Shiels is going to be expected to carry a lot of the creativity load by foot which is why we've gone so tall up forward (for those who don't like the bomb it long strategy, look away).
I'm hoping with JOM and Wingard that they come back in they come in in good nick and rotate out a couple other senior heads.

 

[LegendLewis]

Mitchell, Worpel, Cousins, Maginness Very young midfield.

Breust named as a rover is interesting.

Rapt about that. Reads the drop of the ball so well. for CBA and clearances Breust must be up there I reckon.

 

[eldorado]

Hey Heroes I'm questioning his info on Jaeger being out, nothing to do with Jeka!

OUT: Jaeger O'Meara (managed),

 

[WWSD]

This will be the youngest Hawthorn team under Clarkson this year.

23 and under
Morrison 22
Lewis 22
Worpel 22
Hanrahan 22
Scrimshaw 22
Cousins 23
Jiath 21
Maginness 20
Koschitzke 20
Moore 21
Jeka 19

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Losing Chad and JOM has really exposed our lack of depth in the midfield.

If we lose two half back flankers we have plenty of quality options to chose from but we lose two of our best mids and the cupboard looks very bare indeed (Bruest as rover?)

Such a pity as I feel we were just building into some decent form but the Saints are struggling so still in with a big shot of winning.

Quite interested to see how the forward line of Kosy, TOB and Jeka goes as well.

 

[WWSD]

I would love to see Impey play in the midfield.

 

[Mrzohs]

 

[burger09]

Chad was our 'mystery' out!

Can understand the secrecy.

Hopefully not a calf.

 

[WWSD]

I guess we will find out if Cousins can step up in the absence of O’Meara and Wingard. Perhaps this might give Worpel a bit more freedom in the midfield.

 

[Mrzohs]

Bang on the money with the two big names.Two players we can I'll afford.
Very interesting the 2 fwds swap with 2mids. Gunners half back impey on ball?

 

[SA HAWK]

50/50 just turned into 25/75.

Can't see us winning without JOM & Chad.

If Saints can't beat us this week they are toast.

 

[LMGjr]

Wingard and O'Meara 'managed'....all I can think is that we must be pretty confident of beating the saints.

I've been saying that the "pivot" is in and that the freo game would be the catalyst.

 

[robiecampbellbrown]

Will be hard to assess Jeka with the ball not going there much now that JOM and Chad are out :{

 

[VandoHawk]

Losing both our best midfielder & our most creative playmaker hurts our chances badly. But I'm still super excited to see the Lewis-Jeka-Kosi combination. All of them play different styles that compliment each other well IMO. There will probably be a bit of getting into each others space but worth persisting with. And the freedom Gunston is given cannot be understated.

Cousins & Maginness will probably be given more central roles in the midfield. Hope they're both up for the challenge.

 

[CHUBBSS]

Makes sense resting wingard and jom in the game at marvel, I think of it as an opportunity to for the younger mids to push their claims

hopes are strong we will torch the saints!

 

[Dinsdale]

not happy with the managed bit. cant see how taking out one of our best midfielders this season and inserting Gunners and/or Jeka will help anyone but saints
unless there are niggles to Chad and JoM that they arent telling us about...

means we are going in very tall...tally HO ! Huzzah!!