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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    Still, who do you drop for Libba? There are only so many spots in the side and coming off an interrupted pre-season where his knee has taken longer to recover than expected... I'm going to go with the fit guys who are ahead of him right now.
    I expect he returns via the VFL and has to earn his spot back the hard way.

    Libba can only play midfield.
    Not disagreeing - my focus is on who can turn into *that* guy? Who can wind up Heath Shaw? Who can shut down Josh Kennedy? Who can say enough when it's enough?

    We need that guy
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    I wouldn't be surprised if Libba is done. Sad to say but he's nevery really got back to his best post knee injury with a slight exception in 2016.

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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    Still, who do you drop for Libba? There are only so many spots in the side and coming off an interrupted pre-season where his knee has taken longer to recover than expected... I'm going to go with the fit guys who are ahead of him right now.
    I expect he returns via the VFL and has to earn his spot back the hard way.

    Libba can only play midfield.
    If a fully fit Libba anywhere near 80% of his best form is kept at Footscray, it will mean we are going very well.
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by hujsh View Post
    I wouldn't be surprised if Libba is done. Sad to say but he's nevery really got back to his best post knee injury with a slight exception in 2016.
    From memory he started last season very well. The test may be if his knee can stand up throughout a long season.

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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    Who does he come in for though? Most best 22 teams struggle to fit him in. Bont, Macrae, Dunkley, Lipinski and Smith are our first choice mids right now with Hunter on the wing. I like Wally forward but he can take the odd rotation too.
    Hayes was taking up a spot late last season wasn't he? Would easily replace him with Libba.

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    Dickson out of this week’s match with a slight adductor issue according to our site. Reckon it’s going to be a long year for Tory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    Dickson out of this week’s match with a slight adductor issue according to our site. Reckon it’s going to be a long year for Tory.
    Is it the old case of going one year too long
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by hujsh View Post
    I wouldn't be surprised if Libba is done. Sad to say but he's nevery really got back to his best post knee injury with a slight exception in 2016.
    He wasn't moving freely at all on Saturday but got better later in the session. A set back could be devastating for him
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by CarnTheScray View Post
    Hayes was taking up a spot late last season wasn't he? Would easily replace him with Libba.
    On paper you would but they are playing different roles.

    Hayes is trying to be that hard running link up wingrr like Hunter. Liberatore isn't equipped for that role.

    For Liberatore to get a gig it has to be as an inside mid (really tough as he is behind Bont, Macrae, Dunkley) a as a flanker rotating through the middle (a role arguably all of Lipinski, Wallis and Mclean have been performing better in). Atm the only point of difference Libba offers to those guys is his attitude, but all of those guys offer more in other areas (link up play, scoreboard impact, pace and forward nous respectively).
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    Oh do t doubt Libba's forward nous I love him with the ball atound goal.
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by soupaman View Post
    through the middle (a role arguably all of Lipinski, Wallis and Mclean have been performing better in).
    Mclean had a shocking 12 months and was lucky to be in the team
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Mclean had a shocking 12 months and was lucky to be in the team
    Oh i agree but it was still better than Libbas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Mclean had a shocking 12 months and was lucky to be in the team
    Hoping he has a big 2020.
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    Re: Injury List - 2020

    It seems to be out of Hayes and Roarke Smith for the 2nd winger's position. Be interesting to see if Smith plays today too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    It seems to be out of Hayes and Roarke Smith for the 2nd winger's position. Be interesting to see if Smith plays today too.
    Roarke can take a taller mark and is a quicker outsider, Hayes is more an in the pack type player to me.
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