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The more I focus on who we already have in the better I feel.
Also, could Skipper be played forward???
Re Breust: he needs to be elevated before he can play seniors. And that raises the question of who gets demoted?
Ohhhh yeah.
Cameos probably as opposed to an expected positional move but if we can get the mismatch we want he can make a huge difference early in the match - provided we kick to his strengths - kicked 4 goals in the first quarter against Geelong in either '06 or '07 from memory.
JKT?
Done nothing wrong but his role seems to be ably filled by Birch and Young atm - if worse came to worse, he's only demoted for a week anyway?
Dermies comments may have ruined him, i hope not but since then we havent seen or heard from him...
Re Breust: he needs to be elevated before he can play seniors. And that raises the question of who gets demoted?
I believe anyone can play after rd 11....I am not 100% sure, but believe any rookie can play seniors. Can someone pls confirm
I would have though that we would look to bring in experienced players, to ensure that our game plan does not suffer too much.
Out: Brown In: Ladson
Yeah Ladson has been down on form, and people say he hasn't been all that impressive at Box Hill, however he rarely plays well when the rest of the team is down. But i would imagine he would have gotten some hunger back in the 2s, so he should grab the opportunity with both hands to play in the seniors.
Out: Hooper In: Bateman
This is a pretty obvious one as Changa is easily in our best 22. I would look to move Cyril into the 50 at Buddy and Roughies feet along with Osbourne. And use Bateman's run in the Middle.
Out: Franklin In: Shoenmakers
This one is a little more difficult one, but Shoey played most of his juniors in the forward line and this should take a little pressure off him up forward and let him sneak under the radar.
FB: Murphy - Gilham - Guerra
HB: Birchall - Stratton - Ladson
R: Renouf - Hodge - Sewell
C: Burgoyne - Mitchell - Lewis
HF: Bateman - Shoenmakers - Peterson
FF: Rioli - Roughead - Osborne
I/C: Skipper - Whitecross - Young - Ellis
However it doesn't really matter who we bring in, because if the boys come to play the games is ours for the taking. We should know in the first 5 mins if we are switched on.
If there's a bogey team for the Hawks, Port are the ones. Have dreadful memories of this team hurting us bad. Those awful 100 + floggings over there and killing our 2007 season dead in it's tracks down in Tassie with those 2 goals in the last minute spring to mind.
Can only remember 3 wins over these guys in the last 10 years (glad to be corrected), The Semi win in 2001, a win in 2007 over there and a win in Tassie in 2008 (after being 40 points down).
I reckon Williams will be talking up their chances in house reminding them of their hold over us.
Can not take this mob for granted.
Maybe Burgoyne can enlighten the coaching staff of what the blueprint Port pull out of the drawer every year is! Because it usually works a treat.
A must win for the Hawks if we are any chance to be a factor in 2010.
In Bateman - Out Hooper
In Shoenmakers - Out Buddy
In Shiels - Out Brown
Replace smalls with smalls and talls with talls, pace with pace (Bateman/Hooper), mongrel with mongrel (Shiels/Brown)
Keeps the balance of the winning side.
port have more key players out than we do atm so i really cant see us losing if we come to play. The only negative i see is that buddy misses out on a bag, carlile is leaking goals every week and is out of form. Put skipper up there and rotate him in the ruck i think, schoey comes in to play on westhoff imo, If ebert plays our boy stratts will be on his shoulder and let gilham take schultz who i have no doubt port will bring into the side so to try and expose our height in the backline. Teams are doing this every week atm, seems to be an assumption that our backline is crap and the more big blokes down there the more goals will be scored, disagree with this, it is our midfield which is now coming into form which is not allowing easy inside 50s like we were seeing a few weeks ago.
I would have though that we would look to bring in experienced players, to ensure that our game plan does not suffer too much.
Out: Brown In: Ladson
Yeah Ladson has been down on form, and people say he hasn't been all that impressive at Box Hill, however he rarely plays well when the rest of the team is down. But i would imagine he would have gotten some hunger back in the 2s, so he should grab the opportunity with both hands to play in the seniors.