Not sure anyone is going to be resting players with the bye before finals.
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It's not about resting players to keep them fresh, it's about managing players with niggles so that they don't turn from niggles into full blown injuries.
If Hodge, Mitchell, Gibson, Burgoyne, Lewis, Rioli, Gunston or Frawley had a niggling calf or hamstring complaint then we'd want to be able to play it safe and give them a week off to get it right. If we're sitting 6th (where we would currently be if we had lost one more game) then we may not feel like we could risk not playing them as it would be imperative to win this week to simply stay in touch with the pack. But if course the risk then is that they play and do the injury. Which in turn hurts your chances for weeks to come and makes it far less likely you'll be able to take the risk of resting other players in later weeks. Snowballing the effect.
All the teams in the 8 are in this precarious position now. If we win tomorrow then we really set ourselves apart. If we go on to win the flag from 1st place with a fit list then I will consider it having effectively been won in July from a strategic point of view due to this advantage we've given ourselves.