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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    With Morris out, Naughton to forward, Mclean to play forward then here is another go:

    B. Suckling Cordy Duryea
    HB Wood Trengrove Crozier
    C. Hunter Macrae Richards
    HF. Lloyd Schache Maclean
    F. Wallis Naughton Dunkley
    R. English Bontempelli Macrae


    Int. Daniel Williams Liberatore Gowers
    Macrae is good but is he play in 2 positions at once good?

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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    Macrae is good but is he play in 2 positions at once good?
    Whoops, thanks for the pickup. Amended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    Macrae is good but is he play in 2 positions at once good?
    Sometimes it seems there are two of him out there!
    What should I tell her? She's going to ask.

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    Smith to debut

    Bailey Smith will make his AFL debut when the Western Bulldogs open their 2019 AFL campaign against the Sydney Swans.

    Senior coach Luke Beveridge announced the news at a team meeting prior to training on Tuesday afternoon.

    The highly-rated teenager joined the Bulldogs with pick seven in last year’s NAB AFL Draft.

    After an interrupted pre-season, Smith featured in both JLT Community Series, playing a half of football in each game and collecting nine touches against Gold Coast and 12 against St Kilda.

    On Saturday night, the 18-year-old will fulfil a lifelong dream.

    “I’m still on cloud nine, I’ve got no words really,” Smith told westernbulldogs.com.au.

    “It got announced in the meeting, I didn’t have a clue – I was just shocked. As I said in the meeting, without everyone at the Club, I wouldn’t be where I am today and I’m so grateful.

    “To run out in the red, white and blue, with so much history that the Club has is just an honour and something I don’t take lightly.

    “I’ll do my best to do the jumper proud.”

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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    Macrae is good but is he play in 2 positions at once good?
    It’d be nice

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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    A more than pleasant surprise for the fans given Smiths interrupted pre-season.

    I wonder if there might be another surprise on Thursday night
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    With the fantastic news Smith is going to make his debut and the news Naughton will play forward, I have updated my team:

    B: Crozier, Trengove, Wood
    HB: Williams, Cordy, Daniel
    C: Suckling, Macrae, Hunter
    HF: McLean, Schache, Lloyd
    F: Wallis, Naughton, Gowers
    R: English, Bontempelli, Liberatore
    I/C: Dunkley, Duryea, Smith, Dickson

    Unfortunately Richards misses out due to a bit of a disappointing JLT series.
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    With Morris out, Naughton to forward, Mclean to play forward then here is another go:

    B. Suckling Cordy Duryea
    HB Wood Trengrove Crozier
    C. Hunter Macrae Richards
    HF. Lloyd Schache Maclean
    F. Wallis Naughton Dunkley
    R. English Bontempelli Liberatore


    Int. Daniel, Williams, Dickson, Smith
    Updated with Smith in Gowers out
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Updated with Smith in Gowers out
    If with rotations, we have Dickson in the forward line rather than Dunkley, it starts to shape up as a good mix of front 6, and one that might get us to 100 points... provided Schache and Norton kick straight.

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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    It would be a brave call to play Trengove as a backman when he doesn't seem to have spend a minute there during the preseason (even early, the boys on instragram joked about his shin pads so he started the pre-season as a ruck too).

    We're likely to play short in the backline which means we might be erring on the side of a shootout which would not be in our favour as our forwardline is still a work in progress.
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    It would be a brave call to play Trengove as a backman when he doesn't seem to have spend a minute there during the preseason (even early, the boys on instragram joked about his shin pads so he started the pre-season as a ruck too).

    We're likely to play short in the backline which means we might be erring on the side of a shootout which would not be in our favour as our forwardline is still a work in progress.
    You are right about Trengove, I doubt he will play FB, but that is where us posters have put him. Bevo on SEN did mention we could go short in the backline or we could even consider Roberts and Young.
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    You are right about Trengove, I doubt he will play FB, but that is where us posters have put him. Bevo on SEN did mention we could go short in the backline or we could even consider Roberts and Young.
    I still see Young as a work in progress - he can play an intercept role but not a KPD role, and we already have Wood & Crozier playing intercept.
    I don't mind Roberts but Reid is athletic and Buddy is... Buddy. We might just be forced to roll the dice anyway on a shorter backhalf.
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    A more than pleasant surprise for the fans given Smiths interrupted pre-season.

    I wonder if there might be another surprise on Thursday night
    I presume you are thinking that Will Hayes might be the other?

    Its worth giving him a go, smart footballer, neat kick, good tank

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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Revolution View Post
    I presume you are thinking that Will Hayes might be the other?

    Its worth giving him a go, smart footballer, neat kick, good tank
    That now becomes another consideration - Smith in his first season after an interrupted pre-season surely means line ball decisions on other players makes their running capacity an even more important consideration.
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    Re: Round 1, 2019 Team

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    ...or we could even consider Roberts and Young.
    Hasn't he had an interesting career? Was his last AFL game the 2016 grand final?

    It is interesting when you think about our structure that day. Hamling and Roberts effectively played 'twin post' roles down back with Wood and Morris also down there...so for all our concern about lack of run and carry from defence, look at the foundation of the group that won us the flag?

    I understand the move of Cordy to the d50 - he is not a natural forward - but we have been very quick to throw away Roberts who was always a limited but quietly effective player...IF he does play this week, it would almost be as a replacement for Morris and would (to me at least) make some sense in terms of the structure of the side.

    Would that leave us with a back seven of:

    Wood, Crozier, Cordy, Duryea, Suckling, Daniel and ROBERTS?

    If so, how does that look across the other lines? The forward seven would be:

    Naughton, Schache, Lloyd, MacLean, Wallis and...

    And the on-ball group (eight) would be:

    English, Bont, Hunter, Macrae, Liber, Dunkley (holy hell, that is first class), Richards, Williams and Smith?

    I'm still two short...I guess that ONE needs to be Trengove (though I think we just got very big and slow) and I would like to think Dickson is the other??
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