Round 1 2016 team

[Templeton31]

If you'd told me during pre season that Rd1 team would not have any of Campbell Minson Hamling Roberts Collins Redpath in it I would've been shocked.

The only thing I can say now that its the case is watching Blues v Tiges last night I was struck by how the game seemed like 17 midfielders vs 17 midfielders (each team still had a ruckman) with the tall guys not helpful. Maybe its a Round 1 thing with the frenetic pace of Round 1.

[GVGjr]

Don't have KPs who are AFL quality? Don't play them. That seems to be Bevo's take.

If it works then great, if not he and the match committee have some explaining to do

[F'scary]

Heave-Ho has named 3 ruckmen in their line-up. Certainly a contrast to our selections. The big risk for us, imo, is that if things go in a certain direction, Roughead could end up going back to the FB line and Toyd has to be spent as first ruck. What we want is that their tall forwards are fairly ineffectual, Roughead holds his own in the ruck for 90% of the game, Toyd gives their backs a problem and our smaller mix of players runs rings around and through their lines.

[GVGjr]

Could the thinking be that we want to test the fitness of Freo's selected side and try and run them around?

[ReLoad]

Heave-Ho has named 3 ruckmen in their line-up. Certainly a contrast to our selections. The big risk for us, imo, is that if things go in a certain direction, Roughead could end up going back to the FB line and Toyd has to be spent as first ruck. What we want is that their tall forwards are fairly ineffectual, Roughead holds his own in the ruck for 90% of the game, Toyd gives their backs a problem and our smaller mix of players runs rings around and through their lines.

We've all heard of a resting ruckman up forward, ours is a resting ruckman in defence.

Last year Bevo pulled this kind of stuff every week and it worked more often than not, so whilst I'm amazingly dubious against a big tall Freo side, I'll run with it.

Our mids are going to have to kick 10 goals between them for us to win.

[G-Mo77]

Congrats to Josh Dunkley and Marcus Adams on their debuts. Both haven't put a foot wrong since arriving at the club.

Yeah good luck to the first gamers. Fingers crossed their first career game is a win.

[Eastdog]

Dickson out is a huge blow but not really a surprise. Got to find a scorer somewhere against a pretty stingey opposition

Hopefully guys like Wallis, Hunter, Dalhaus etc chip in with a few. Hoping both T Boyd and Stringer have a good games. Stringer was there in the last nab game but didn't impact it very much and we need a bit more from him on Sunday. Hoping all our forwards have a great year.

[Eastdog]

Congrats to Josh Dunkley and Marcus Adams on their debuts. Both haven't put a foot wrong since arriving at the club.

Best of luck to both of them.

[Mantis]

If it works then great, if not he and the match committee have some explaining to do

If nothing else he and his team are consistent with their selections.

[always right]

Excited and nervous. High risk selection....should be a high octane game. At the end of the game Bevo will either be hailed a tactical genius or someone who may have got a little ahead of himself.

[Bulldog Revolution]

The positive is he hasn't shown any inclination to want to gamble on underdone players (Campbell, Dickson, Hamling etc) and previously has had a good read on which kids should play and when

The one selection that particularly surprises me is Dunkley over Jong

[Eastdog]

The positive is he hasn't shown any inclination to want to gamble on underdone players (Campbell, Dickson, Hamling etc) and previously has had a good read on which kids should play and when

The one selection that particularly surprises me is Dunkley over Jong

Yes you would think that Dunkley being his first real AFL game wouldn't be thrown in the deep end and Jong who I think has the potential to have a good year would have been selected but I'm not the coach and they are the ones that know whats going down.

[Remi Moses]

Johnson and Dickson out nullify each other.
Are we one tall short forward ?

[Remi Moses]

The positive is he hasn't shown any inclination to want to gamble on underdone players (Campbell, Dickson, Hamling etc) and previously has had a good read on which kids should play and when

The one selection that particularly surprises me is Dunkley over Jong

Dunkley selection is a bit of a surprise, but thought Jong was poor against the pies.
I'm glad we're not throwing all our eggs into the round one basket, it can bite you in the arse having underdone players

[GVGjr]

If nothing else he and his team are consistent with their selections.

For sure, we certainly select teams a bit differently since Bevo arrived. I'd have to go back to Wallace who had an obsession with pacy players and I think Bevo might also have some strong but different thoughts on team selections.