Changes Round 5 vs Hawks

[cleveland]

How did Buss look in the magoos?

 

[Libbaaaa]

Just need to hope the Hawks and Geelong have heaps of injuries today

Can’t stand either side but come on now. Neither team is that good that we can’t go into either confident of winning. Wishing injuries on other teams is bush league.

 

[The Inbetweener]

Feel like Smith might be an OK match up against the Hawks’ rucks. Don’t want to take Lobb out of the backline.

 

[Mojorisin]

If McNeil comes out and Hynes doesn’t come in, that’s 2 spots needing to be filled. Who do we go to?

Gallagher maybe. VDM is the only other option I see for forwards unless we go with an extra tall

VDM is injured aswell. I'd be bringing in Emmett, Buss and Carmichael.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Feel like Smith might be an OK match up against the Hawks’ rucks. Don’t want to take Lobb out of the backline.

Meek (pre rule change) ate Tim’s lunch and so have their midfield every time we play them recently. Intrigued to see how it plays out this time around.

 

[TheHound]

At least our game against the hawks is in Adelaide and freo/swans are marvel. Makes it much more winnable in my opinion

 

[Chalky White]

Unfortunately McNeil is our most natural crumbing forward behind West and Jones and with Cody missing for so long.

He gets to the right spot frequently, but fails to execute.

This is why he keeps getting opportunities, but we need to move past him and essentially have (he is pure depth now).

I think English and Arty will miss - our coaching philosophy is very conservative when it comes to injury - a philosophy that I support.

Hopefully Ed was precautionary/conservative.

Out: English, Arty, McNeil
In: Emmett, Ed, Hynes

Pretty hard on him when he already played a game.

 

[cleveland]

Who played well in the vfl? What did smith look like and Buss?

 

[The Inbetweener]

Meek (pre rule change) ate Tim’s lunch and so have their midfield every time we play them recently. Intrigued to see how it plays out this time around.

For sure. More meant at least they are more physical ruckman unlike Jackson and Grundy in a few weeks who would run Smith off his feet. Will be interesting. No real ideal option.

 

[JTCWBFC]

Put Lobb in the ruck and just go small down back and try run and gun more

JOD to lobbs spot, khamis becomes 2nd tall and roll Williams back as 3rd tall

Davidson, baker and bramble for the wings.

 

[Optimistic Dog]

Can we beat the hawks without Ed, Tim, Libba and Arty. Unlikely but not impossible if everyone plays their role. Including West, Davidson and Croft who have done very little this season cannot afford passengers.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Feel like Smith might be an OK match up against the Hawks’ rucks. Don’t want to take Lobb out of the backline.

From what I have seen of him he’s reasonably aggressive and he held up well against a much bigger Crossley in the VFL grand final. He’s might be a good match for Meek in some respects.

He’s not a like for like swap for English but if he can compete physically and help the mids he might do enough.

I suspect it’ll be an all hands on deck strategy (ie whoever takes over will be relieved by a mix of Darcy, Croft, Naughton and Lobb at times).

 

[RWnBluey]

Can we beat the hawks without Ed, Tim, Libba and Arty. Unlikely but not impossible if everyone plays their role. Including West, Davidson and Croft who have done very little this season cannot afford passengers.

GWS were decimated by injury and beat the Hawks comfortably. Sydney were without both Heeney and Gulden and only lost by 3 goals playing Hawks away at G. We’ll go in underdogs but I’m still confident we can win it.

 

[Struggle]

Has it been reported when the injury occurred though? As far as I’m aware it could very well have happened in the warm up last night.

Hopefully. I was going off reading battling knee soreness which makes it sound like an ongoing thing but that was probably just misquoting the actual statement

 

[bigbulldog67]

Yeah bit of a disaster to be honest but we’ll adapt, huge opportunity for guys like Freijah, Hynes & especially Sanders to go to the next level, this is the opportunity they need hopefully they take it. Just need to win 2 of the next 4.

Absolutely praying it’s only 2-3 for English & Richards. If it’s multiple months that will really stretch us

I think it has to be Lobb in the ruck to be honest, the ruck is so important this year we can’t just accept defeat in there. Let’s be/Darcy can cover it. Jedd Busslinger looks pretty ready to go, I think he can come in and do a role which is all we need him to do

 

[Doggies_13]

Has it been reported when the injury occurred though? As far as I’m aware it could very well have happened in the warm up last night.

Felt something in the light warm up when players go out early for a jog/kick or two at goal. So was pre-warm up but clearly happened on the night.

 

[Zgope1]

I think we’re better off keeping our backline as our backline, keeping our forward line as our forward line (without Arty) and accept that our midfield will be weaker without Ed, Libba and English

 

[Doggies_13]

Put Lobb in the ruck and just go small down back and try run and gun more

JOD to lobbs spot, khamis becomes 2nd tall and roll Williams back as 3rd tall

Davidson, baker and bramble for the wings.

Don’t mind it but I wouldn’t be rolling Williams back he’s had a great start to the year and seems to be playing a defensive wing role. Rather us bring in a Coffield/Cleary to play that third tall back role and maintain Williams on the wing

 

[BEaston]

I don't think Lobb would do that much better in the ruck, than say Croft, to make it worthwhile moving him out of defence.

I'd be keeping him there.

 

[Werewolf]

I'm OK with McNeil playing next week, as long as he doesn't kick backwards

 

[dergert]

Busslinger shouldn't play seniors again imo. Would rather ryan gardiner lol

 

[dergert]

Lol McNeil did nothing in the vfl either.

 

[TheScriptorWL]

3 of our starting midfield out for a minimum 2-3 weeks. Does Bevo have this tactical class up his sleeve? Time for the Pups to graduate. Hynes, Sanders, Freijah stepping up becomes important. No other line changes. Croft and Darcy take turns in the ruck.

Blast Tooth and Nail 24/7. Go to the Queen Victoria market and get a Rabbits Foot and rub the shit of it. Any Irish supporters? We need a Four leaf clover. Get it all for chrissake

 

[lachy]

Smith would be fine against the Hawks rucks.

Either Croft or Emmett as the second ruck/fwd, prefer Emmett.

Buss only comes in if Lobb is going to ruck. Would prefer to keep our backline in tact.

Would therefore go:
Outs English, Jones, Mc Neil and Croft
Ins Smith, Hynes, Gallagher and Emmett

Still a strong team to compete with the Hawks

 

[Doggies_13]

Another thing compounding our injuries aside from our opponents coming up are:
V hawks - 6 day break ( hawks off 5)
V Cats - 6 day break (cat off 6 and then 5 days)
V swans - 6 day break (back to back 6 day breaks)
V Freo - 8 day break

Outside of Libba doubt any of the others come back until Freo at earliest. But also last night we couldn’t manage minutes of key players and we will be unlikely to be able to manage minutes in this period or rest players as we probably would have wanted to other than standard management.