Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

By that thinking, why don’t we try Friday and rest up for QF? Would mean needing to win only 3 finals rather than 4.

[comrade]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Balls to the wall this week. No rests, no mercy.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Balls to the wall this week. No rests, no mercy.

Oh I definitely don’t want to rest. Just saying QF makes more sense than this week.

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Oh I definitely don’t want to rest. Just saying QF makes more sense than this week.

Win the next two and we get a rest.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Win the next two and we get a rest.

Absolutely. My point is this week is as big as a final.

[Axe Man]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has conceded his side can’t “flick the switch” against Port Adelaide on Friday night but would have to be better with a top-two finish a potential reward for victory.

Ruckman Stefan Martin’s magnet will go on the table when Beveridge and his coaching staff try to work through the best team to take on Port.

Beveridge said the shuffling to get the best forward mix, which changed when Josh Bruce was cut down by an ACL injury, was all part of that selection puzzle.

The premiership coach also said No. 1 draft pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan might not be the answer to that forward line problem after being omitted last week.

“Marra has had a look at the competition and we have seen some of his gifts and talent come to the fore,” Beveridge said.

“Now we have to work out whether he is ready for some of these big games and finals. “

Up to 20 Dogs players will stay in a hotel this week as all players and staff endure three Covid tests before Friday’s top-four showdown with Port Adelaide as part of strict rules.

But Beveridge, who opted to stay at home, which in turn meant his wife, a nurse, took unpaid leave to fit in with the AFL’s restrictions, said the extra imposition wouldn’t impact his team’s ability to get “pulsing” for the pre-finals clash.

Beveridge joked he would need to be “reimbursed” for his wife’s pay from the AFL.

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[ratsmac]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Being a finals like game I'd bring in JUH just to see whether or not he is up to it.

Roarke has to play for mine just to defend a wing. Hawthorn cut us up with the switch kick. Roarke doesn't have many tricks but he seems to be one to follow the task he has been given.

Martin must play if he's any chance for September action.

In JUH, Martin, R Smith, Gardner

Out - Garcia, Hannan, Young/Cordy, JJ/Vander

Easton Wood on notice

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Hearing the presser, here is my daily ins/outs update

In- Stef, Gardner, Roarke
Out- Zaine, Hannan, Garcia

[Axe Man]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Was it against Melbourne that Hannan was given the task of preventing May from intercept marking (and did so effectively)? Could he be called upon to play the same role on Aliir?

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Hearing the presser, here is my daily ins/outs update

In- Stef, Gardner, Roarke
Out- Zaine, Hannan, Garcia

English, Stef, Young, Gardner, Naughton, Keath, Cordy

Are we top heavy?

[comrade]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

English, Stef, Young, Gardner, Naughton, Keath, Cordy

Are we top heavy?

He had Cordy as one of the outs (I can only hope he's right!)

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Same I've had just about enough as well. Peace.

Come on guys I have been sitting in Bundaberg Hospital since Friday on dialysis with a collapsed lung and blood and guts spurting out 2.5 litres of muck .....no get betters please not about me....and I am not going to give up on my doggies this year. We have come so far as a club this year and as a WOOF community. Please all hang on till the wild ride ends friends.

[Bornadog]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

He had Cordy as one of the outs (I can only hope he's right!)

Yes, sorry.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Was it against Melbourne that Hannan was given the task of preventing May from intercept marking (and did so effectively)? Could he be called upon to play the same role on Aliir?

That's a great point. I think (wild guess?) that part of why Hannan plays a lot is he is suited to (according to Bevo) bigger games.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Always Right Match Committee Round 23 Vs Port Adelaide 2021

Replaying the game in my head (I won’t watch it), we lacked genuine leading options. Marra does that really well and has the pace to burn off his opponent. Plus Derm says the best ‘Shimmy Step’ TM.

I like that wide Cody & Naughton to lead too. Creates space for others. Hannan is not doing that. I get he’s more physical than Marra, but Marra can actually hit the scoreboard and has some X factor, plus lead really well. I’m prepared to accept the drawbacks of swapping out Hannan, for the benefits.