Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

[Mofra]

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1002376/martin-in-the-mix

He's underdone and may suck as the game wears on this weekend, but I'm backing him in.

I don't think we're winning anything with English as first ruck. I do thing English is a threat forward of the ball - a 208cm, bloke who can mark and kick is bound to attract attention.
Martin in allows English to spend more time forward to cover for Bruce. Stef can bash and crash whatever first ruck the other team put up and English is comptetive against any second ruck in the comp.

It's a higher risk strategy but who ever achieved anything in life by playing it safe?

I don't want us to try and just scrape a win in a final. Let's be greedy, let's be hungry. let's roll the dice in an all or nothing shot at taking the whole damn thing.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Agree straight in for all the reasons you mention.

Apart from Bruce and McLean we have a pretty clean bill of health. Time to go hard or go home.

[MrMahatma]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/n...tin-in-the-mix

He's underdone and may suck as the game wears on this weekend, but I'm backing him in.

I don't think we're winning anything with English as first ruck. I do thing English is a threat forward of the ball - a 208cm, bloke who can mark and kick is bound to attract attention.
Martin in allows English to spend more time forward to cover for Bruce. Stef can bash and crash whatever first ruck the other team put up and English is comptetive against any second ruck in the comp.

It's a higher risk strategy but who ever achieved anything in life by playing it safe?

I don't want us to try and just scrape a win in a final. Let's be greedy, let's be hungry. let's roll the dice in an all or nothing shot at taking the whole damn thing.

It's not massively high risk though. I mean, say we have Young as the Medi Sub. If Stef goes down, we roll out the sub and we more or less line up as we would if Stef didn't play. Sure, there's a chance we cop another injury but in the scheme of things, the injury sub makes a move like this much, MUCH lower risk than when there wasn't an injury sub.

Bring it on! I really, really hope he plays and gets through the game. It's the biggest improvement we'll have outside of the rest of the team who have been down finding form (or Naughton kicking straight...). Actually, we've got loads of upside. Bring on the weekend!

[Bornadog]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Could be the Clarke Keating of the finals - come on Stef, we need you

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

We need to go with three tall defenders against Port.

Keath, Gardner/Cordy & Schache. Schache also the third line of ruck after Tim if Stef goes down. Or to run with Ladhams and/or take D50 ruck contests to save Stef having to run huge miles.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

He has to play - especially now the pre finals bye has been cancelled, he just has to play now.

Would be crook to lose him during the game, but can be covered by English in this scenario.

Play him

[comrade]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Unleash the silver fox.

[jazzadogs]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Win this week, win next week, get a week off and freshen up for a prelim. EASY!!!

[MrMahatma]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Win this week, win next week, get a week off and freshen up for a prelim. EASY!!!

Then get another week off before the GF.

[The Underdog]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

We need to go with three tall defenders against Port.

Keath, Gardner/Cordy & Schache. Schache also the third line of ruck after Tim if Stef goes down. Or to run with Ladhams and/or take D50 ruck contests to save Stef having to run huge miles.

Totally this. Reckon it’s probably too big a risk to go in with Gardner and Martin off long breaks, but Keath, Cordy and Schache with Schache as the break glass back up ruck option is the go for me.

[EasternWest]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Help us stupid, sexy Stef. You're our only hope.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Help us stupid, sexy Stef. You're our only hope.

Can you record you giving that message so a droid can later play it to Stef to rescue us?

[Danjul]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

It's not massively high risk though. I mean, say we have Young as the Medi Sub. If Stef goes down, we roll out the sub and we more or less line up as we would if Stef didn't play. Sure, there's a chance we cop another injury but in the scheme of things, the injury sub makes a move like this much, MUCH lower risk than when there wasn't an injury sub.

Bring it on! I really, really hope he plays and gets through the game. It's the biggest improvement we'll have outside of the rest of the team who have been down finding form (or Naughton kicking straight...). Actually, we've got loads of upside. Bring on the weekend!

Do we really want Schache in the ruck with a suspect knee? One centre bounce knock could put him out of the game if there is a problem. Your suggestion about Young is a good idea.

[EasternWest]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Can you record you giving that message so a droid can later play it to Stef to rescue us?

Pfft. Implying I haven't already.

[jeemak]

Re: Cometh the hour, cometh the Stef...

Do we really want Schache in the ruck with a suspect knee? One centre bounce knock could put him out of the game if there is a problem. Your suggestion about Young is a good idea.

If he's not fit enough to be able to do that you'd question whether he's fit enough to play at all, given he's still a speculative prospect as a key defender anyway?

Not sure he's the player we take into contests underdone one way or another.