Team - Round 2

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Team - Round 2

I've heard this a few times and it's simply not right. Williams showed some good signs, but got lost in traffic several times.

Buddy kicked 5 goals. He won the duel.

I was at the game and Williams DID play a great game against Buddy.

Buddy may have kicked 5 goals but at least 2 of them came from bad errors by Daniel Cross who handballed direct to Franklin in front of goal.

[comrade]

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Good to see Roughy in. He's much more suited to the modern game than Will. It'll be interesting to see how our forward structure goes with 3 talls at times.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Team - Round 2

Pretty telling for minson, although early in the year

Not a good sign for Will.

It seems that the MC don't share my enthusiasm for the big fellow.

If he is to languish at Williamstown he will dominate and figure in the Liston.

[Mantis]

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Good to see Roughy in. He's much more suited to the modern game than Will. It'll be interesting to see how our forward structure goes with 3 talls at times.

One would think that it won't happen for too long as both Hall & Jones will need a spell which will probably co-incide with the times that Roughy plays forward.

[Greystache]

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Not a good sign for Will.

It seems that the MC don't share my enthusiasm for the big fellow.

If he is to languish at Williamstown he will dominate and figure in the Liston.

Only for this year. In all likelihood Hudson will retire at the end of this season, next year Minson will probably be the number 1 ruckman and Roughead will play the role he's set to this weekend. Minson should be serviceable as the primary ruckman, might just be a year of pain in 2011

[Mofra]

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Pretty telling for minson, although early in the year

True - he is unfortunately a no 1 ruckman only.
I'd expect Roughy to spend more time forward than rucking - our hope woudl be to stretch their defence, perhaps play Hall as a decoy with Merrett following, which leaves Macguire on one of Jones or Roughy.
We should have one mismatch to try and exploit, let alone Grant probably being taken by a more mid sized player.

[LostDoggy]

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Only for this year. In all likelihood Hudson will retire at the end of this season, next year Minson will probably be the number 1 ruckman and Roughead will play the role he's set to this weekend. Minson should be serviceable as the primary ruckman, might just be a year of pain in 2010.

This all depends on Cordy. If he does well this year then Minson will probably go and we will recruit some new rucks.

[choconmientay]

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This is the team for Sunday, extracted from HS:
WESTERN BULLDOGS v BRISBANE
Friday April 1, 2011 16:44

Western Bulldogs
B: Brennan Stack, Lukas Markovic, Dale Morris
HB: Robert Murphy, Tom L. Williams, Liam Picken
C: Justin Sherman, Matthew Boyd, Daniel Cross
HF: Shaun Higgins, Liam Jones, Josh Hill
F: Jarrad Grant, Barry Hall, Daniel Giansiracusa
Foll: Ben Hudson, Adam Cooney, Ryan Griffen
I/C: Callan Ward, Jordan Roughead, , Nathan Djerrkura, Thomas Liberatore
Emerg: William Minson, Brodie Moles,Mitchell Wallis
In: Jordan Roughead
Out: Easton Wood (Ankle)
Friday April 1, 2011 16:44

Brisbane Lions
B: Jed Adcock, Daniel Merrett, Pearce Hanley
HB: Cheynee Stiller, Matt Maguire, Ashley McGrath
C: Jack Redden, Simon Black, Tom Rockliff
HF: Todd Banfield, Mitchell Clark, Rohan Bewick
F: Ryan Lester, Joel Patfull, James Polkinghorne
Foll: Matthew Leuenberger, Andrew Raines, Daniel Rich
I/C: Luke Power, Amon Buchanan, Jesse O'Brien, Claye Beams
Emerg: Tom Collier, Broc McCauley, Jared Polec
In: Luke Power, Matt Maguire
Out: Jonathan Brown (Face), Brent Staker (Knee)

[LostDoggy]

Re: Team - Round 2

I'd expect Roughy to spend more time forward than rucking

Me too. He moves well which is great, but even more promising is that he has genuine forward instincts.

[Greystache]

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This all depends on Cordy. If he does well this year then Minson will probably go and we will recruit some new rucks.

He's contracted until 2012, so unless we can trade him, he'll be at the club next year.

Cordy is a long long way from being proven, I don't think we'd be making too many decisions based on Ayce stepping up just yet.

[chef]

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AFL website have Roughead in Wood out. Emergencies Wallis Minson Moles

Is that it. Hoping to see more changes than that after our insipid effort.

[LostDoggy]

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That's terrific. The club seems to be following the wise course of action and is developing our talented young kids.

Yep, like that too.

[Happy Days]

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Just on Brisbane; Joel Patfull at full forward? Really?

[LostDoggy]

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Not a good sign for Will.

It seems that the MC don't share my enthusiasm for the big fellow.

If he is to languish at Williamstown he will dominate and figure in the Liston.

Thing is that Will and Roughy are are ruck combo for the future so we need to keep him.
Don't know how much longer Huddo has in him.

[the banker]

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Picken to Banfield?