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Changes vs Collingwood

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Jeez, where do we start? Do we have enough players?

Possible Outs:
Neagle - Injury?
Monfries - Injury?
Welsh - Injury?
Laycock - No comment.
Micheal - If Fletcher comes in?
Rama - Didn't watch the game, heard he wasn't that good.
Atkinson - Will he keep his spot?

Possible Ins:
Gumbleton - Unlikely, heard some rumours he might be back.
Dempsey - Might play VFL first
John Williams - Who knows, with an injury team like ours
Cale Hooker - Been pretty good in VFL
Fletcher - Not sure about his injury
Tom Hislop - Still sore?
Hocking - Still sore?
Houli - Still injured?
Bellchambers - In for Laycock?

Once again, these are just possible ins and outs.
 
So many injuries, a have a feeling that a rookie will be again be elevated and fill some holes in our line-up.

Also word out of BomberBlitz that Houli might be out for the season.
 

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Theres not really much to say this week. I wouldn't really say anyone in the side played bad enough that they have to be dropped and with so few fit players its probably just a case of finding the best replacements we can for any injuries that don't pull up. Truth is we don't have enough available fit players to be too picky at the moment. Should hopefully be getting a few of the kids back in Bendigo over the next 2 weeks and that will again put some pressure on the underperforming players but at the moment we just need to work with what he have.
 
Re: Ins & Outs vs Collingwood

OUT: LAYCOCK!!!!!!!!!!

In: Fletcher

thaths the only change that shopuld be made unless we have injuries.
 
In: Bellchambers, Fletcher, Hooker, Magin
Out: Laycock, Michael, Neagle, Monfries

Bellchambers has to come in for Laycock if fit. Clearly, our reserve ruck stocks are hopelessly empty and we must give Bellchambers some time now.

Fletcher in for Michael hopefully.

Hooker....I'm just pulling out names now, I have no idea if he's even fit.

Magin, again, is he fit? Surely he could be elevated if he hasn't already.

Atkinson, Dyson and Rama are no chance of being dropped, yet they're probably not in our best 30.

Damn these injuries are annoying.

And god help us if Welsh is out.
 
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
 

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Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Agree. When we lose, some supporters just have to find someone to blame. But the fact is, it's the team that lost, not Laycock...
 
Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Agree! Zero on the bench cost us today. No rotations.
 
Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Don't rate Laycock at all but it wasn't his fault we lost. Bellchambers is not ready and would struggle more so. Let Laycock play the season out to try and save his career.
 
Me calling for Bellchambers' inclusion has nothing to do with Laycock's game.

We MUST get some games into this guy, because we have NOTHING else.

Say Hille does his shoulder round 1 next year, really good one, at least 12 weeks.
What do we do then?

Gotta start thinking of the future, and Bellchambers needs the 6 remaining games!
 
warney7 said:
Me calling for Bellchambers' inclusion has nothing to do with Laycock's game.

We MUST get some games into this guy, because we have NOTHING else.

Say Hille does his shoulder round 1 next year, really good one, at least 12 weeks.
What do we do then?

Gotta start thinking of the future, and Bellchambers needs the 6 remaining games!
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And so does Laycock
 
warney7 said:
Me calling for Bellchambers' inclusion has nothing to do with Laycock's game.

We MUST get some games into this guy, because we have NOTHING else.

Say Hille does his shoulder round 1 next year, really good one, at least 12 weeks.
What do we do then?

Gotta start thinking of the future, and Bellchambers needs the 6 remaining games!
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Man, ruckman take years to develop, not 6 games. Might as well stick it out with Laycock for the rest of the year, we've gone this far.

Laycock, presented and took marks when the game depended on it. We've all been asking for him to stand up, he did today, unfortunate that the kicks he had didn't go through, but that's footy.

Bellchambers will be better off in the long run playing out the year in the VFL and have a full pre-season THEN i think we can decide on whether he should play over laycock.
 

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Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Spot on Daytripper. Normally he is a good kick and just had a bad day in front of goals. Bellchambers would have struggled to run the match out, let alone be in a position to kick a few goals.
 
Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Agree. Bellchambers is not close to being ready.You dont bring in 18 year old ruckmen unless you have to.
Laycock may be having a poor run but at least he has actually got to a few contests and taken a couple of marks in the last few weeks.
 
warney7 said:
Me calling for Bellchambers' inclusion has nothing to do with Laycock's game.

We MUST get some games into this guy, because we have NOTHING else.

Say Hille does his shoulder round 1 next year, really good one, at least 12 weeks.
What do we do then?

Gotta start thinking of the future, and Bellchambers needs the 6 remaining games!
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And if it did happen Bellchambers with 7 games under his belt would still not be ready. We would still be in the shit.
 
Daytripper said:
All you blokes calling for Laycocks head need to wake up to yourselves. He got himself into good marking positions and is starting to produce.

Ask yourself this question. Would Bellchambers have taken those marks in our forward 50 today ? The answer is an unequivacle NO.

Give the kid a F**KING break.
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Gotta agree on this.

I was spewing about the misses and cursing him but looking back on it, he was our most dangerous forward in the last and was winning the ball and competing well.

He is usually a pretty good kick for goal so it's kind of strange he had an off day.

We have to persevere and just get more games into him and hope after another pre season he can step up a notch.
 
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