Serious Question: Are the selectors drunk? :-)

[jeemak]

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I think a WOOF cleansing is required. No rules, open slather, he/she who stands wins...........

Or just lay off the defenciveness, and actually respond to the specific content of posts and replies and stop hammering the same point time and again because it suits your narrative. It's getting tiring from all sides.

Things are never as complex or simple as they seem, things are likewise polarised. Let's just tone it down.

[SlimPickens]

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If they’re drunk, at least Kingy will drive them home.

[jeemak]

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If they’re drunk, at least Kingy will drive them home.

Ouch.

[SlimPickens]

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Ouch.

You spelled “sharp” wrong!

[GVGjr]

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I wouldn't mind seeing us play Trengove as the main Ruck this week and try Boyd and Schache both forward for significant periods. Still not ideal but would balance it out a bit. Team selection for the rest of this year is really more aboutlearning for the future now anyway.

I think that is a reasonable option. Not sure it will happen but worth considering

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

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And to provide a balanced view without blindly following the club or using injuries as an excuse could people also justify why they think the selectors have got it right?
Just following the selectors or being critical of one or two soft targets is the fairly easy option

Good thoughts here and from BAD. Given our poor attack I would like to see both Adams and Dunkley play forward. I still think Cordy is our best option to play on Brown. Wallis as a tag on Higgins who has had a dream run this year with little run with opposition. Never move JJ from half back. Crozier could be an option at half forward. Our lack of depth is a concern with Tom Boyd, R Smith Daniel Honeychurch and JJ all needing to play out of their skin. I also believe that Williams has the ability to give a lift by playing further up the field. Our weaknesses continue in the midfield and up forward.

[soupman]

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Iwould have brought Jong, Morris, Greene, Dunkley in for the same outs.

Biggs needed to be dropped. He has been terrible all yer and did not earn his recall.

We need to see if Greene can offer something at the level, amd he has some ok form at VFL to justify it.

Jong and Dunkley come in to help qith running power and to give our midfield some ball winners to replace Macrae.

Morria comes in but not really sure why. I probably prefer Naughton tbh but don't really have a role for either in mind.

Cannot believe the side we are going with. If there is one thing Beveridge has gone out of his way to avoid while at the helm is being an overly tall side. So this is baffling.

I think we will see Trengove play the key forward slash ruck role he played in JLT, the role o rexkon we stupidly sold tp him to come across for.

Adams will play forward, and they'll hope he and schaches relative mobility for their size wont make pur forwarldine too top heavy. Unfotunately if they play dunkley as an almost permanent forward as usual then it that just makes it worse.

This can and probably will get really ugly.

[merantau]

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Fact is: the cupboard is bare. But, I would be playing Jong and Campbell. Jong always gives his all. He has the ability to snag a goal. He may not be the most skilful but I don't recall him stuffing things up and gifting goals to the opposition.
The refusal to play Campbell is beyond understanding. I think it's time Tom Boyd got a decent run as a 80% permanent forward. Campbell is the best tap ruckman we've got. We should run with him to remove/confirm any doubts we have about him.

[Remi Moses]

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Biggs has been beyond terrible
Campbell deserves his chance , and I’d have given Jong a shot .
It says how terribly lopsided the list is .

[Mofra]

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I agree with a lot of the sentiments over the last page:

- I really would have given Greene a run, we lose nothing by giving him a chance

- I rate Naughton highly but he's an 18 year old 195cm KPP in his first season, rushing him back while we're top-heavy seems strange.

- Morris to go to Higgins when he plays forward. He's their best player (along with Cunnington). If he goes to a wing, the Badger to run with him.

- We need to sit on Cunnington, heavily. He's going to get the ball anyway but we need to try and affect the quality of his distribution. I would have been tempted to bring Jong in for this but Jong hasn't actually been able to play run with roles well in the past which is strange for such an amazing athlete. Perhaps a new role for Dunkley?

- Agree with the posters above re: Trengove rucking. Trengove probably wins no position on the ground he plays in but will bust his gut until the last second for his teammates.

- Under no circumstances do we play Daniel as a backman.

- Dahl to spend more time on the ground, less time on the wing. Our only chance at an upset is to get some semblance of the crowd involved and the best way to do that is having the Dahl of old scrounge a goal or two in his 150th.

- Hire someone to slap Beveridge if he even considers putting Gowers in the ruck. Yes he's a poor kick for goal but I'd rather someone who is only 50/50 from 30m in front having a shot than our mids kicking the ball blindly for Tarrant and Daw to continually mark. Gowers presents, that's very important.

[Dry Rot]

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Well, some one has to say it.

We almost pinched this game with this odd lot of selections.

Thought we looked better down back and up forward than most games this year.

[mjp]

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Well, some one has to say it.

We almost pinched this game with this odd lot of selections.

Thought we looked better down back and up forward than most games this year.

100%.

It almost felt like 2015/16 all over again...seemingly random changes - consistent good form.

[AndrewP6]

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100%.

It almost felt like 2015/16 all over again...seemingly random changes - consistent good form.

Radio commentators were saying that a lot.

[josie]

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Our marking around the ground was outta sight compared to 2017 and 2018. Credit to Bevo and MC. Love that Adams, Cordy, Naughton and Trengove can go forward or back. Cross fingers Moz can go around again in 2019 as he is a great leader.

[soupman]

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In 2015 and 2016 almost every bizarre decision Beveridge made came off. Since then nothing. Until last night. I don't know how it worked bit it did.