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In: Roughy for Will, and maybe for the remainder of the season. Everitt, has been stiffto miss the last few weeks.
Where's Moles gone???????
Hill? He has to grow a set.
I really respect the work Mitch has done, but his style is not effective at the moment ( 9 touches ) The more poor games Mitch has the more this frustration with Everitt builds.
I can't see Everitt not being able to do what Mitch gives us frankly speaking.
Everitt, Moles, a runner who can get to the contests.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
There was a moment in the game when I had a look at our forward line when the ball was at the other end. It included the following:
Hall
Hahn
Gia
Johnson
Minson
Some top players yes, but the slowest forward line going around
Minson will be out I, so I read today. So hopefully we can get some leg speed into the forward line. My suggestion is Everitt. Any others?
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
I think it would be remiss of our MC to ignore the fact that we are playing in Darwin off a 6day break after the Blues game. This would be a massive factor in my mind about whether to risk Johnno and/or Minson, especially with Higgins and Ward just coming back.
My stab at it.
IN: Everitt, Callan, Roughead, 4th spot is lineball for me- depends on how they went today against Willy but I would like to see Jones get a game. If we are going to have so many immobile forwards who neither offer defensive pressure, a target or a crumbing option we might as well give a tall like Jones a guy.
OUT: Minson, Johnson, Hahn, Reid
Not ideal but IMO we might as well take the risk/do it for his development when the other options are so ordinary. I agree with mjp that Hill is clearly in our best 22 but it's not about whether he is good enough at the moment IMO. He seems to play as if he knows he is good enough and is happy to accept his lot as being a player who keeps his spot by doing a few nice things every game. He is better than that IMO and I think the short term pain of dropping him is worth the potential long term gain.
I expect Liam Jones to get a call up this week for an out of touch Mitch Hahn.
Rightly so, why so many credits for Mitch? Will gets dropped for some silly errors earlier in the season, yet his form was not as bad as Mitch's at the time.
Everitt is supposed to be the everywhere man, so what better time to call him up than when we need backup for Hudson in the ruck?
Was a very good workout for Roughead yesterday having to compete with an experienced and big bodied Steven King. Dre did perform the back up ruck duties although his overall performance on the day was not exceptional. Both Williams and Dre played down back with Williams showing a bit more than Dre's overall effort. I would be inclined to think Roughead and Williams would get call up ahead of Everitt based on what I observed yesterday although Carlton's smaller forward line is likely to come into play.
I like what Josh Hill can offer our forward line. However if judging him based purely on his performance against the Zebra's it would seem unlikely that the MC would promote him unless they feel forced through injury.
I feel the call ups for this week are more likely to come from Jones, Roughead, Williams and possibly Callan.
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