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[LuvtheKangas]

Anyone think Warren holds his spot specificaly to play on Bruest?

I can't work out who he played on. Some people are giving him credit for keeping Mayes quiet. If he was assigned to Mayes for the whole game, then he did his job and should stay.

If he was supposed to take Green or Zorko in the 2nd quarter, de-list.

 

[Heaps of fun]

I can't work out who he played on. Some people are giving him credit for keeping Mayes quiet. If he was assigned to Mayes for the whole game, then he did his job and should stay.

If he was supposed to take Green or Zorko in the 2nd quarter, de-list.

He's a first gamer and Green will captain Brisbane one day (bookmark it).

 

[Rushed_Behind]

FB: Lachie Hansen, Scott Thompson, Luke McDonald
HB: Shaun Atley, Michael Firrito, Liam Anthony
C: Nick Dal Santo, Ben Jacobs, Levi Greenwood
HF: Brent Harvey, Aaron Black, Aaron Mullett
FF: Lindsay Thomas, Drew Petrie, Ben Brown
R: Todd Goldstein, Andrew Swallow, Ben Cunnington
I/C: Sam Gibson, Kieran Harper, Brad McKenzie
SUB: Leigh Adams

OUT: Bastinac, Warren, Ziebell (rest/inj)
IN: Harper, Anthony, Hansen

Brown survives another week. Shouldn't have played last week with wet weather forecast. See how he goes under the roof on a fast track. Match-ups could go:

Petrie - Lake
Black - Schoenmakers
Brown - Spangher
Thomas - Stratton
Harvey - Duryea/Shiels

Harper comes back in and avoids the subs vest. Adams has been decent in his two games as sub this year, so this is his last chance before he goes back to the twos. Gibson on thin ice but survives given extreme lack of depth at the moment. Anthony back in to rack the pill up and also play a negating role on someone like Bradley Hill. Ziebell given a rest due to his sore knee/poor form. Hansen back in. Backline has a huge job coming up, having a fit Grima would be ideal.

Thompson - Roughead
Firrito - Gunston
Hansen - Hale
Atley/McDonald - Breust

Breust is the one to stop. Having no Cyril helps a lot but I rate Breust higher. Sublime player.

You'd expect the Hawks to stick with Ceglar in the ruck, and surely you'd expect Goldstein to have the advantage over him, but we thought that with Stef Martin..

Litherland would take black and Schoey should start forward, trying to stretch your backline. Also Im not sure if Firrito is the right match up on Gunston, just my opinion though. I think Hansen would probably be better and I'd risk(because of height) firrito on Hale as he's not that mobile and is out of form.

 

[Event Horizon]

Litherland would take black and Schoey should start forward, trying to stretch your backline. Also Im not sure if Firrito is the right match up on Gunston, just my opinion though. I think Hansen would probably be better and I'd risk(because of height) firrito on Hale as he's not that mobile and is out of form.

Hansen should go onto some absolute Spud (or the closest thing you've got to it) as his main strength is intercept marking, rather than actually stopping a good player. Firrito is better one on one, arguably. I would play Hansen on Schoenmakers, and Firrito on Gunston.

 

[justroyal]

I am actually shitting my pants about team selection and match ups. At the start of the year we had deph, especially as far as height in defense was concerned. Seeing where we are now, it's bitterly disappointing..

 

[Event Horizon]

I am actually shitting my pants about team selection and match ups. At the start of the year we had deph, especially as far as height in defense was concerned. Seeing where we are now, it's bitterly disappointing..

I don't think we had depth in that area at all. That's why many of us were concerned about letting Delaney senior go. Drafting Tippett was supposed to go some way to rectify that issue, and as much as young Tippett ended up a pretty good rookie pickup, his long term injury reduced our KPD depth back to skeleton staff. Grima simply can't be relied upon, and we knew that. Cam Delaney has also been very injury prone. So the current scenario would have been very plausible in the offseason. In fact, we are lucky that Spud is having such a good season, or we'd have really been in trouble.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

If only Macmillan was fit so he could make Gunston disappear again.

 

[Firrito24]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

 

[tazaa]

If only Macmillan was fit so he could make Gunston disappear again.

The sheer incompetence by our medical team this year is farcical. Everyone's position in that field of the club must come under review, even Saunders.
What a disgrace that Wells, Grima, Tarrant, Garner, Curran, Delaney and Macmillan have had their years wasted due to not understanding the severity of their injuries.
That's 20% of the list out of action.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

The sheer incompetence by our medical team this year is farcical. Everyone's position in that field of the club must come under review, even Saunders.
What a disgrace that Wells, Grima, Tarrant, Garner, Curran, Delaney and Macmillan have had their years wasted due to not understanding the severity of their injuries.
That's 20% of the list out of action.

Yep. It's gone beyond bad luck and ventured dangerously close to incompetence.

Garner has had a 18 week Hamstring.

Tarrant has no tibia left.

Wells was misdiagnosed.

Curran is Curran.

Delaney is Delaney.

Macmillan has bones made of toothpaste apparently. His facial fractures seemed to heal a shitload faster.

And go knows what the **** is wrong with Grima.

 

[jess_1804]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

First part = Second Part =
If Ziebell, Thompson and Hansen all miss we are royally screwed. Massive ask to even come close to the Hawks without those guys and the injuries we've already got.

 

[GarnerSmash]

The sheer incompetence by our medical team this year is farcical. Everyone's position in that field of the club must come under review, even Saunders.
What a disgrace that Wells, Grima, Tarrant, Garner, Curran, Delaney and Macmillan have had their years wasted due to not understanding the severity of their injuries.
That's 20% of the list out of action.

Sorry mate, but without having any understanding of the diagnostic approaches of the medical team, nor the extent or detail of the actual injuries yourself I feel it is extremely short-sighted to be blaming the medical staff for the slow healing time of the players, especially given their previous track record.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

We are so ****ed.

 

[GarnerSmash]

Yep. It's gone beyond bad luck and ventured dangerously close to incompetence.

Garner has had a 18 week Hamstring. - He damaged the tendon which can be notoriously difficult to heal. Perhaps they decided for his long term durability to allow it to heal naturally rather than opt for surgery? As there is no detail forthcoming how do we know any different?

Tarrant has no tibia left. - Considering they have had to get multiple opinions on this injury it is clear that it is not something easy to fix nor something that happens very often. Its just bad friggen luck.

Wells was misdiagnosed. - Linsfranc injuries are notoriously difficult to detect and take a long time to heal. In short you will only find it if you are explicitly looking for it.

Curran is Curran. - Repeated broken bones in foot = loooooooong time out. Simples.

Delaney is Delaney. - Toes n feet. Both ****ing hard to get right.

Macmillan has bones made of toothpaste apparently. His facial fractures seemed to heal a shitload faster. - Not the medical teams fault his bone heals slowly. They could jack him with HGH but that'd be poor form.

Yeah, nah.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Yeah, nah.

All fair points. The frustration, and accusations, arise from the iron curtain the club employs with regard to injured players.

 

[jess_1804]

How about we look at it this way? Let's hope we can get all the injuries under control for the last month of the season. We get our best 22 back and give them a few games playing together. That way we'll have a few players feeling very fresh going into finals, provided we make it.

Too optimistic?

 

[GarnerSmash]

All fair points. The frustration, and accusations, arise from the iron curtain the club employs with regard to injured players.

Its an ultra competitive environment. You can't really blame them for playing their cards close to their chest.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Its an ultra competitive environment. You can't really blame them for playing their cards close to their chest.

I fail to see the competitive advantage of keeping injury severity secret.

 

[Wild Bill]

I fail to see the competitive advantage of keeping injury severity secret.

I would list every player as - test - and make the opposition do their homework on all our injured players. The more time spent on them the less time spent on the players that will actually run out.

 

[GarnerSmash]

I fail to see the competitive advantage of keeping injury severity secret.

As Wild Bill says, it just means that other clubs are as in the dark. No real advantage but there it is.

 

[Kimbo]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

As BT said, first bit, great. Second bit, not so.

Dumont for Bastinac (or someone) makes sense. Basti needs a rocket, Froggy needs a look in.
While Black hasn't scaled the heights of last year, I think he's suffering from Drew's poor form and not having Tarrant there. I'm less forgiving of Drew as I am of Black. Either way, good to see Wood get a go, if that's the case. Rewards form.

BJ for JZ I'd suggest, if Jack isn't right.

Lachie and Scooter not quite right? ffs. Injuries to KPD have cruelled us this year.

 

[the big lebowski]

Lol. So a tiring Spud could be our only KPD.

 

[Groucho]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

Yeah drove past Arden street today and saw they were training so had a look for a few minutes,saw Jack with his knee bandaged and standing on the sidelines doing nothing except talk to Wellsy occasionally ,who was doing very light running, just walked away shaking my head.

 

[Event Horizon]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

Shit, if any of any of Hansen, Thompson or Ziebell miss, our chances would almost be zero.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Little birdie tells me Black and Bastinac have already been told they are out for Wood and Dumont.

Hansen, Thompson (not sure what happened here?) and Ziebell all to undergo fitness tests. Ziebell unlikely to play.

Make of that what you will.

Does this go dangerously close to constituting a "statement" from Brad?