Strategy 2024 | Let's Construct Our Best 22 | Part 4: Interchange

FootyGuy13 · Feb 22, 2024

Results from Part Three:

1| Jacob van Rooyen (93.1%)
2| Bayley Fritsch (93.1%)
3| Harrison Petty (89.7%)
4| Kysaiah Pickett (86.2%)
5| Shane McAdam (65.5%)
6| Alex Neal-Bullen (65.5%)
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7| Charlie Spargo (17.2%)
8| Jack Billings (17.2%)
10| Kade Chandler (13.8%)

Josh Schache, Tom McDonald, Joel Smith, Bailey Laurie, Matthew Jefferson, Oliver Sestan, Kynan Brown, Andy Moniz-Wakefield, Ben Brown, Jake Melksham, Tom Fullarton, Koltyn Tholstrup, Taj Woewodin (<10%).

Part 4 is looking at the Interchange:
INT: Interchange | Interchange | Interchange | Interchange | Tactical Sub

E: Emergency | Emergency | Emergency

Please vote for the four players you'd want to fill those positions. Voting ends Feb 29th.

Framework: We are pretending that everyone on the list is fit, uninjured and unsuspended, the only thing holding players back being age and inexperience. This isn't a Round O team either, just the Best 22 team against a random opponent in random weather conditions in a random round.

In the poll above is every player in the Melbourne squad that was not picked in the previous 3 threads. I know that Angus Brayshaw would have almost certainly been added to the bench prior to his latest scan but, since his retirement is effective immediately, he won't be in the poll.

Happy Voting! :smallfooty:

Post-2009 team:

booshboy · Feb 22, 2024

bloody slim pickings on that list.

Theseventhhamster · Feb 22, 2024

booshboy said:
bloody slim pickings on that list.

Reckon it's a solid bunch of non-tall depth but * me, I'm eyeing off Hore there as the best tallish option. Spectacular how bad Smith * himself.

FootyGuy13 · Feb 29, 2024

And here is the Melbourne BigFooty Board's pre-2024 Beast 22 team:
FB: Judd McVee | Steven May | Jake Lever
HB: Jake Bowey | Adam Tomlinson | Trent Rivers
C: Ed Langdon | Clayton Oliver | Caleb Windsor
HF: Kysaiah Pickett | Jacob van Rooyen | Alex Neal-Bullen
FF: Shane McAdam | Harrison Petty | Bayley Fritsch
R: Max Gawn | Jack Viney | Christian Petracca
INT: Jack Billings | Tom Sparrow | Kade Chandler | Christian Salem | Lachie Hunter (sub)

E: Kynan Brown | Bailey Laurie | Charlie Spargo

IN FROM 2023: Caleb Windsor, Judd McVee, Adam Tomlinson, Shane McAdam, Jack Billings, Kade Chandler
OUT FROM 2023: Brodie Grundy, James Harmes, Michael Hibberd (sub), Angus Brayshaw, Charlie Spargo, Tom McDonald

Okay, let's go over a few things. If you're a non-Dees supporter, you're probably wondering how McVee and Bowey have bumped Salem onto the bench. It's probably because you didn't watch many Dees games in 2023 because the line-up in defense would be of no surprise to frequent visitors to this board. However, even with Brayshaw's retirement, Salem almost became the sub early on in the vote which we'll get to later.

The midfield, for the 4th time running, has had 5 of the 6 players stay the same. I thought for sure both wings were gonna change but only Windsor could join Harmes, Brayshaw and Hunter in participating in the revolving door that is the Right-hand Wing Spot. I haven't seen any footage of Windsor play yet either so I hope we're not overhyping another rookie again. The forward-line was also quite predictable despite it being called "makeshift" by the experts. We don't even have to wait that long to see if the coaching staff go with something similar either and prove this thread correct! (they probably won't)

Which leaves us with the ins, the outs and the bench. I'm surprised Spargo didn't get in, but I guess with Windsor and Kynan in the squad now, we have his replacement for the title of "Best Kick in the Team". We almost had Kynan on the bench as well early days, however Salem was getting more consistent votes over time while Hunter came outta nowhere, stormed home late, and got the necessary votes to bump Kynan down to first Emergency. That'll most likely tick a few people off but hey, that's the votes. I also don't know where the Billings love has come from, though I suppose no news has been good news with this off-season.

And lastly, thank you for voting either once or in all 4 of the threads, these things run on activity so it was good to see every thread get a fair bit of a turnout again. Let's see that level of activity once we get to the 426 please... pretty please?... onto the new season!

Scythe94 · Feb 29, 2024

Brilliant work as always, FootyGuy13

Scythe94 · Feb 29, 2024

And yeah, vote in the 426 or get banned.

I don't make the rules

A11dAtP0w3R · Mar 1, 2024

I wish I could take back my Langdon vote after seeing him in the preseason.

booshboy · Mar 1, 2024

A11dAtP0w3R said:
I wish I could take back my Langdon vote after seeing him in the preseason.

* him off, put Billings on his wing and give Laurie first crack on the pine.

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Strategy 2024 | Let's Construct Our Best 22 | Part 4: Interchange

Which four players should fill the bench positions in a pre-2024 Best 22?

#3 Christian Salem

#9 Charlie Spargo

#12 Lachie Hunter

#14 Jack Billings

#16 Bailey Laurie

#18 Jake Melksham

#19 Josh Schache

#21 Matthew Jefferson

#22 Blake Howes

#25 Tom McDonald

#26 Jed Adams

#27 Marty Hore

#28 Will Verrall

#29 Joel Smith

#32 Tom Sparrow

#33 Tom Fullarton

#37 Kade Chandler

#38 Oliver Sestan

#39 Koltyn Tholstrup

#40 Taj Woewodin

#41 Kynan Brown

#42 Daniel Turner

#43 Kyah Farris-White

#45 Andy Moniz-Wakefield

#50 Ben Brown

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