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Preview R8: Changes vs. Carlton - Nicks Sucks and Must be Sacked
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Nobody to blame but....
Crouch being out doesnt hurt our chances of winning IMO
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So atleast 3 changes this week?
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Unfortunately Muzz out, Hinge out, and TT (injured and will likely struggle), Fog(doubtful) - does, however hurt our chances.
How the hell do both Crouch and Murray play with existing injuries, and end up missing weeks/months?
Terrible player management in this day and age.
Terrible player management in this day and age.
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So we’ve finally stopped playing Crouch injured, geniuses
TT didn't look like he struggled when he came back on last week, he'll be fine.
Murray is a loss, especially if we pick Borlase in his place.
Hinge similar, but we do have cover... as long as that cover isn't B Smith
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The way Filthy looked at training yesterday tells me he wont be playing this week
4 changes i think.
Out: Crouch, Murray, Thilthorpe & Hinge.
In: Butts, Berry, Burgess & Sholl
4 changes i think.
Out: Crouch, Murray, Thilthorpe & Hinge.
In: Butts, Berry, Burgess & Sholl
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The cover will be Sholl...
Now we had a whole back and forth on whether we are still playing injured players. You responded to another poster saying we weren't. I suggested Crouch and you stated "nope". I'm not sure where you got the idea that I thought you'd said he was hampered, because based on the convo, I clearly know that you don't reckon he's been hampered because you're stating that we no longer play injured players. Well, have a little look at the below from the AFC website. Do you now accept that we continue to play hampered players and Crouch is evidence of that???
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I think Laird suggested yesterday Butts was pulled early from the SANFL game to ensure fresh to play afl
Should of been dropped anyway.
I can't see how we could offer him a contract for next year so not out of the realms of possibility he has played his last AFL game.
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so,
out: Hinge, Murray, Crouch, Thilthorpe, O'Brien,
In: Edwards, Dowling, Cook, McAndrew, Ryan,
Could be a reprieve for a couple, including possibly ROB. E.g. Nank, Milera and Keane who haven't been playing well.
out: Hinge, Murray, Crouch, Thilthorpe, O'Brien,
In: Edwards, Dowling, Cook, McAndrew, Ryan,
Could be a reprieve for a couple, including possibly ROB. E.g. Nank, Milera and Keane who haven't been playing well.
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time for Edwards
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Crows midfielder ruled out of Blues clash
The on-baller has been managing a hip injurywww.afc.com.au
You can bet your bottom dollar there's won't be any changes outside the forced ones.
This is what I would have:
Out: Murray (inj) Crouch (inj) Hinge (susp) Taylor (omit)
In: Butts/Borlase, Berry, FOG, Draper (Taylor sub)
We have more than enough of a small/medium forward presence in ANB/Rachele, and then have Rankine & Draper roam through up forward, up their CBA's and have Dawson take Hinge's position (Curtin could also feasibly cover this position too). It's clear without Hinge and Murray we're going to need an experienced head back there to settle things down.
Either that or pop Nankervis into Hinge's position, and bring Dawson back when needed. I just feel like structurally to go from Dawson attending 75% CBA's to zero would be far too much of an adjustment for the midfield.
On paper this doesn't make us look too bad. Clearly Crouch has been playing with an injury for some weeks and has been an actual liability (I noticed the lack of contested stuff from him in the Geelong game and last week), so Berry coming might actually be a bonus.
Unlike previous years we actually do have depth, evidenced by Crows SANFL performances so far.
I think Draper/Berry makes sense considering they played in the same midfield last week...
Either that or Draper goes to sub, and Taylor is used as that mid/fwd rotation
Edit: Surely we have given up on the Sholl experiment....
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What was up with him, besides the obvious?
Nothing else
Why are we bothering with Cook ??
Thilthorpe with a busted finger is 10 times the player Cook is.
Not even shying away from it. So, not only did our midfield perform perfectly well against the Suns without him, they rushed him back and played him despite it being something he had to grind through. I understand Crouch's reason for coming back, he's putting himself ahead of the team, I don't understand how the selectors keep shooting themselves in the foot.
And oh yeah, trust in Burgess, he never gets anything wrong.
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He's been in our best in 3 out of 4 sanfl games
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