Changes Round 5

[Bulldog Revolution]

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I don't think we will win this week, we seem to struggle against Carlton, and with Pratt seriously ill in hospital, they will be playing for him.

I'll be bitterly disappointed if we put forward another spineless performance against Carlton

[Bornadog]

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Eade says Murphy will play but Cooney is 50/50

Also mentioned Grant and O'Keefe are possibles. No mention of Welsh.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I'll be bitterly disappointed if we put forward another spineless performance against Carlton

Same.

No excuses.

We're better than Carlton and have been for a while - it's about time we actually play some quality football and beat them.

Eade says Murphy will play but Cooney is 50/50

Also mentioned Grant and O'Keefe are possibles. No mention of Welsh.

I find it strange Murphy is listed to play but Welsh isn't.

Murphy's barely played ANY football this entire year. Very limited game time on the weekend and struggled v Melbourne in the pre-season.

Hopefully Grant gets a gig though. I think he should too, if Eade was serious in the pre-season about playing him 10 or so games.

[dogman]

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If Murphy does play, I doubt Grant will get a game as they are similar players. But I think Eade will pull Murphy out at the last minute. I think he is to underdone to play this important game. We can't afford to play him and have him on the bench for 50% of the game. I believe he needs a full game in the VFL first.

I even heard on the radio that he wasn't even training with the main group today. Surely its one of those Eade comments, that are meant to get Carlton thinking about Murphy and not others like Johno and crew.

[Bornadog]

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If Murphy does play, I doubt Grant will get a game as they are similar players. But I think Eade will pull Murphy out at the last minute. I think he is to underdone to play this important game. We can't afford to play him and have him on the bench for 50% of the game. I believe he needs a full game in the VFL first.

I even heard on the radio that he wasn't even training with the main group today. Surely its one of those Eade comments, that are meant to get Carlton thinking about Murphy and not others like Johno and crew.

The bigger game is the week after so he needs to be ready for that one.

[Rocco Jones]

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Why would we be dropping Tiller and not replacing him with a tallish defender?

Carlton's forwardline will probably set-up something like the following:

F: Betts, Fev, Cloke
HF: Wiggins, Kreuzer, Houlihan

Carlton will try and stretch us so we need to play 3 tallish defender's with back-up from Morris & Hargrave.

Just a few things:
-Cloke and/or Kreuzer will spend time in the ruck supporting Jacobs.

-I would be happy for them to go with 3 tall forwards. I actually think Morris is our best match up for Fev, as Fev is really a conventional power forward. I think he relies more on his explosiveness, which suits Dale. It also frees up Lake to do his million marks from opposition kicks. Lake to take Cloke and Williams on Kreuzer.

[Mantis]

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-I would be happy for them to go with 3 tall forwards. I actually think Morris is our best match up for Fev, as Fev is really a conventional power forward. I think he relies more on his explosiveness, which suits Dale. It also frees up Lake to do his million marks from opposition kicks. Lake to take Cloke and Williams on Kreuzer.

I think we all thought Morris would go to Fev in rd 17 last year, but Lake did a very good job up until a point late in the 3rd qtr when our midfield gave the Carlton midfield (Judd in particular) a free ride and served the ball on a platter to Fev.

Will be interesting to see which way we go this time around.

[dogman]

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I hope we don't get Fev back in form like last year. From memory he had a few shockers before he played us but he had a great game against us, especially last quarter. He then managed to finish off the year on a high.

[LostDoggy]

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I hope we don't get Fev back in form like last year. From memory he had a few shockers before he played us but he had a great game against us, especially last quarter. He then managed to finish off the year on a high.

I could have played ff against us in that last quarter and kicked goals. The game was won and lost in the midfield, when we stopped running, they killed us.

[Rocco Jones]

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I think we all thought Morris would go to Fev in rd 17 last year, but Lake did a very good job up until a point late in the 3rd qtr when our midfield gave the Carlton midfield (Judd in particular) a free ride and served the ball on a platter to Fev.

Will be interesting to see which way we go this time around.

Yep. When Williams/Morris are as good/nearly as good an option to play on a dangerous opponent as Lake I would prefer to have Lake freed up to exploit a weaker opponent. Callan coming into the side means we don't need Morris to play on Betts.

We always have to free up Shaggy has to play on small/mediums (preferably the former).

[alwaysadog]

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Eade says Murphy will play but Cooney is 50/50

Also mentioned Grant and O'Keefe are possibles. No mention of Welsh.

Rocket wouldn't play mind games, would he?

[GVGjr]

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Rocket wouldn't play mind games, would he?

I actually think everything he says with regards to team selection or injuries is a bluff.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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If Murphy does play, I doubt Grant will get a game as they are similar players. But I think Eade will pull Murphy out at the last minute. I think he is to underdone to play this important game. We can't afford to play him and have him on the bench for 50% of the game. I believe he needs a full game in the VFL first.

I even heard on the radio that he wasn't even training with the main group today. Surely its one of those Eade comments, that are meant to get Carlton thinking about Murphy and not others like Johno and crew.

The problem with that theory is that we need to get game time into Murphy. If he doesn't play with us then he'll have to play with Willi on Saturday and that might be a bit of a giveaway.

[GVGjr]

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The problem with that theory is that we need to get game time into Murphy. If he doesn't play with us then he'll have to play with Willi on Saturday and that might be a bit of a giveaway.

Willy is playing on Sunday this week I think at the same time as well

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Just a few things:
-Cloke and/or Kreuzer will spend time in the ruck supporting Jacobs.

-I would be happy for them to go with 3 tall forwards. I actually think Morris is our best match up for Fev, as Fev is really a conventional power forward. I think he relies more on his explosiveness, which suits Dale. It also frees up Lake to do his million marks from opposition kicks. Lake to take Cloke and Williams on Kreuzer.

They would never let Lake take Cloke, I'd try it for sure, but they will either take Cloke off the ground or tell him to stand about 8 rows deep into the crowd in the forward pocket and make sure Lake goes with him.

Morris might have to go to Wiggins.