Stevens to play?

[WalkerTexasRanger]

I know he was named in the side and from all reports he should play tonight (I hope he does!!), but I heard Andy Maher on SEN trying to say that there was a rumour Stevo won't play! Anybody heard any news on this, apart from the almost incomprehensible statement from Maher in which he first said "there is a rumour that Stevens will play....blah blah... I mean won't play"?

Wouldn't be much of a rumour this morning if he would play as he was named. If he doesn't play I hope Pfeiffer is the emergency to replace him, because I think Russell hasn't earnt it over the last couple of praccie matches.

thoughts?

PS Pretty excited about tonight...work will be hard to get through!!!

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

We can not afford another major out for tonight or we should justifiably be underdogs.

 

[Beloved]

Three words, 'SEN said that'.

Stevens will line-up against the Tigers tonight.

 

[Jeremias]

I'm confident he'll play. But if he doesn't, I'm not confident we'll win.

 

[Beloved]

I'm confident he'll play. But if he doesn't, I'm not confident we'll win.

I'm with you, without our 'main' ruckman in the line-up, the Tigers are almost guaranteed to win most of the ruck contests. Stevens is probably the best at sharking taps in our line-up, without him it becomes increasingly hard to gain possession from the midfield.

 

[HBF]

Since when did anything reported on SEN ever be close to being true. I'd be pretty surprised if Nick didn't play tonight.

 

[Jeremias]

I'm with you, without our 'main' ruckman in the line-up, the Tigers are almost guaranteed to win most of the ruck contests. Stevens is probably the best at sharking taps in our line-up, without him it becomes increasingly hard to gain possession from the midfield.

Cloke is our number 1 ruckman and he is in the side. Having said that, we're missing our 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ruckman which will make it tough. Hopefully Cloke can match it with Simmonds from the hitouts (people tend to forget how good his ruckwork was early last year), and as average as Setanta is in the ruck, I'm confident he can counter Pattison's influence on the game.

Stevens caps off our big advantage in the middle. If he doesn't play, we gain less of an advantage for sure. With our injury list we need all the advantages we can get heading into the match and losing Stevens would be a disaster.

 

[bloods01]

If he doesn't play it would be a savage blow to all DT'ers out there.

 

[dane]

Lock this shit down.

 

[BlueWorld]

Let's see who to believe:

SEN- a rumour he might not play

Yesterday's training report: Stevens - moved freely and showed no signs of injury - is a certain starter

 

[Sam The Doc]

foooooooootys backkkkk

 

[Pamam]

foooooooootys backkkkk

yep it is!!!

woo hoo!!!

 

[Bomba Sheldon]

Cloke is our number 1 ruckman and he is in the side. Having said that, we're missing our 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ruckman which will make it tough. Hopefully Cloke can match it with Simmonds from the hitouts (people tend to forget how good his ruckwork was early last year), and as average as Setanta is in the ruck, I'm confident he can counter Pattison's influence on the game.

Stevens caps off our big advantage in the middle. If he doesn't play, we gain less of an advantage for sure. With our injury list we need all the advantages we can get heading into the match and losing Stevens would be a disaster.

Yeah I was surprised on how good a tap ruckman he was. I wasn't surprised on how hard he is at the contest, he gave us a bit of grunt before his shoudler went on him.

One thing I did find out about him is that he should handball at every available opportunity, whilst not a sh*t house kick (most times) he just loves to bomb it long.

 

[thylacine60]

If he doesn't play it would be a savage blow to all DT'ers out there.

Thank God this rumour was only started today. Knowing all those DTers would be suffering a savage blow, how would I have slept?

 

[parrot]

Ratten was pretty clear on Steven's availability at yesterday's press conference. Perhaps the Blues spread the rumour to torment Terry.

 

[WalkerTexasRanger]

Ratten was pretty clear on Steven's availability at yesterday's press conference. Perhaps the Blues spread the rumour to torment Terry.

I hope so... or maybe Andrew Maher feels that he needs to be a sh!t stirrer so that he seems a bit objective when talking about his team. I don't know, but lately he seems to talk a fair bit of cr@p about our Blues.

Only a few hours to go....!

 

[Sam The Doc]

4 hrs 8 mins

 

[Bluebear]

SEN reporting (I know......don't laugh) that Betstar believe Stevens won't play.

Bookies tend to get some pretty good info.............

 

[FordGTHO]

SEN reporting (I know......don't laugh) that Betstar believe Stevens won't play.

Bookies tend to get some pretty good info.............

Pickering just said on SEN that he has a good mate at Carlton, and he just called him and was informed that Nick Stevens is right to go and will be a certain starter .