Always Right Match Committee - Round 8, 2018 vs Brisbane Lions

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Originally Posted by bornadog

In Bont, Webb
out jong and English

no ruck in

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Bont is in. He and Dunkley will do a bit of work.

Ruckman for ruckman - Bont in for Jong

Hope this is just taking the piss out of us all.

English having a rest. Not a bad thing very early in his career. He has been very good this year.

Great that Bont is back!

I hope Webb can do what he can do at VFL level and translate that to the AFL. How many times have we said that?

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Originally Posted by G-Mo77

If we're playing games like this at the selection table then we've lost the actual already.

Anyway baffling selections?

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Well that's what Bevo said we did last week. We knew Thursday Bont wasn't highly unlikely to be right. This was confirmed on Friday, but we withheld making it public til the last minute as we knew GC would be putting a lot of their planning around Bont being in.

This was a very strange selection process. You wouldn’t need for Tom Boyd to get an early injury as there is very little back up against the in form Martin. With such an inexperienced team you wonder what the experienced Trengrove needs to do to gain selection. Without a key marking forward this would have been the ideal game to play Schache against his former Club. The MC has had a rapid change of mind to recall Webb who is yet to prove that he is good enough at senior level. The BL looked a lot better last week than a Club that is yet to win a game. One can only hope that Bont is fully fit and that Macrae Hunter and Maclean play out of their skin as we saw last week to give us our third win on the trot.

The irony that the so called experts talk to our current list imbalance having brought in too many talls but we can’t find a spot this week for a ruckman e.g Roughead, Trengove, Campbell against the in form ruckman in the league; ooh and we decide that this is the week to rest Tom English. Stef Martin must be licking his lips at the prospect of feeding his mids.

Like others I’m staggered we’re not playing another big .
I’m Wondering why we picked up Trengove! Mobile ruck swapping with Boyd would have thought.
Please tag or run with Zorko . Please .....

Surprised we lose English for not Trengove but otherwise i don't mind it conceptually.

None of our rucks can match Martin aerobically, so no point having one of them lumbering along in his wake. Boyd works hard enough to negate him somewhat and Dunkley/Bont can try to punish him going the other way. Last week showed that getting smahsed in the hitouts doesn't mean you get smashed in clearances.

They have three tall defenders in Andrews, Gardiner and Eagles. Andrews is a gun but none of them are dynamic rebounding types and Andrews and Eagles are much more your safe kicking slow moving guys so we won't get punished the other way by them and can hopefully expose them by forcing them to play high on mids who can outrun them. Gardiner might fall in that category too but I don't pay enough attention to him to notice.

Their forwardline is also tallish with McStay, Hipwood and McInerney. They are all pretty mobile but Hipwood is the only one that is a particular threat. Effectively it is going to be 7 talls for Brisbane with maybe two of them being overly threatening vs our 4 talls plus Bont and Dunkley.

As usual with Beveridge we are going to trust that our system will cover their taller side and that we can outrun them. If we do concede a few goals from being short it will be compensated for by the goals our extra mid/flanker types generate.

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Originally Posted by soupaman

Surprised we lose English for not Trengove but otherwise i don't mind it conceptually.

None of our rucks can match Martin aerobically, so no point having one of them lumbering along in his wake. Boyd works hard enough to negate him somewhat and Dunkley/Bont can try to punish him going the other way. Last week showed that getting smahsed in the hitouts doesn't mean you get smashed in clearances.

They have three tall defenders in Andrews, Gardiner and Eagles. Andrews is a gun but none of them are dynamic rebounding types and Andrews and Eagles are much more your safe kicking slow moving guys so we won't get punished the other way by them and can hopefully expose them by forcing them to play high on mids who can outrun them. Gardiner might fall in that category too but I don't pay enough attention to him to notice.

Their forwardline is also tallish with McStay, Hipwood and McInerney. They are all pretty mobile but Hipwood is the only one that is a particular threat. Effectively it is going to be 7 talls for Brisbane with maybe two of them being overly threatening vs our 4 talls plus Bont and Dunkley.

As usual with Beveridge we are going to trust that our system will cover their taller side and that we can outrun them. If we do concede a few goals from being short it will be compensated for by the goals our extra mid/flanker types generate.

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Young Naughton and Cordy, we have their three talls covered. What we do have is a small forward line.

Maybe the MC are aware that Bont won't be a starter and Trengove will replace him. Just keeping Brisbane in the dark for a while longer. Maybe.

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Originally Posted by GVGjr

Bont is in. He and Dunkley will do a bit of work.

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Bont has had a very gentle week on the track to nurse his hip. If he rucks against Martin, we have seriously lost the plot.

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Originally Posted by PeanutsPeanuts

Bont has had a very gentle week on the track to nurse his hip. If he rucks against Martin, we have seriously lost the plot.

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I doubt he would ruck. Going by last week, Dunks will do the second ruck work.

I would imagine Bont will be our tall forward.

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Originally Posted by bornadog

I doubt he would ruck. Going by last week, Dunks will do the second ruck work.

I would imagine Bont will be our tall forward.

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Bevo last week said in the post match that we were exposed in the Ruck and our strategies needed to be addressed. To drop English and replace him with a midfielder just doesn't add up. Surely Trengove is a late in.

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Originally Posted by PeanutsPeanuts

Bevo last week said in the post match that we were exposed in the Ruck and our strategies needed to be addressed. To drop English and replace him with a midfielder just doesn't add up. Surely Trengove is a late in.

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If not, he has planned something out. Just hope it works.