Round #7 Match Committee

[Bulldog Joe]

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As good as everyone believes Roughy will be, he is not there yet.

He seems to be about the slowest player on the list, but struggles to hold his feet. He looks good going for a mark, unless he is impeded and it seems that smaller players still have too much strength.

So he lacks the strength to hold his ground in a contest and he lacks the speed to be a lead up player.
Time for him to go back to Williamstown and develop without having to contend with gorillas.

Hudson will do better forward than Roughy has the last 2 weeks and Minson is way ahead of him. With Barry still missing go with Hudson and Minson and see how it works.

[Hotdog60]

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Grant could be very lucky that Patrick Veszpremi is injured.

[westbulldog]

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Roughhead was pathetic from what I saw - was he playing with an injury ? If he was then that is a ridiculous match selection 2 weeks in a row, Hall was clearly out of commission with injury against Fremantle.
I would also omit Williams and Hill.
Grant will need to perform in Round 7.
Ins - from Giansiracusa, Higgins, Schofield (must be doing ok as named as emergency for the Collingwood game?), Stack and Djerrkura.
Will Minson the solo ruck, he was excellent today.

We won't make the top 4 and quite possibly won't make the top 8 so what is there to lose ?

[GVGjr]

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Does anyone know what Higgins' injury is? 'general soreness' always makes me highly dubious. Will he really only miss a week?

[LostDoggy]

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Does Hudo get back in to the team because of his leadership status? Frankly he doesn't deserve to be in over Minson given his performance today and i can't see him working as the #2 ruckman. I guess we could put Mino back to the #2 but he will clearly suffer for it.
I think this 'general soreness' could really lead to the end of Hudson

[Jasper]

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Pretty tough ask for Minson to continually have to play a quarter + without any relief at the end of games. Hudson spending 40% TOG up forward is terrifying, it shouldn't happen fullstop but you can turn that fullstop into a few exclamation marks when you consider that Barry Hall also plays for us.

If we are only talking about next week, Hall is not in the picture.

Also if Huddo subbed off at say 20min mark of 3rd quarter, then by my reckoning Huddo could do 40% rucking and 60% for Minson, and would have Huddo playing 6 minutes a quarter for 3 quarters fwd (and thats assuming 85% TOG for Huddo before he is subbed).

Obviously its a risk if we have to use the sub to cover another injury, but its worth considering.

And looking at Roughead's efforts today (and I am talking prior to his knock) I don't think we are losing much with Huddo fwd in any case.

[Sedat]

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If we are only talking about next week, Hall is not in the picture.

Ed Barlow might get a look-in this week to play against his old team. He played 2nd ruck for Willy today and was supposedly OK in the role.

[Jasper]

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Ed Barlow might get a look-in this week to play against his old team. He played 2nd ruck for Willy today and was supposedly OK in the role.

Isn't Barlow a like for like for Williams...?

[azabob]

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Ed Barlow might get a look-in this week to play against his old team. He played 2nd ruck for Willy today and was supposedly OK in the role.

I said the same thing about Barlow last week, he would've matched up well aginst Brown in the ruck and perhaps he could provide some support in the midfield. But his disposal isn't great and as a team we are struggling to hit targets.

[GVGjr]

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Ed Barlow might get a look-in this week to play against his old team. He played 2nd ruck for Willy today and was supposedly OK in the role.

The only problem is that if we want to play Hargrave at Williamstown we can't use a rookie listed player.

[Ghost Dog]

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Swans, have a few younger players they are giving a run, so would not mind at all if we blooded some as well - Schofield and Dahlhaus perhaps

[Bornadog]

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Roughhead was pathetic from what I saw - was he playing with an injury ?

Copped a corky in the 2nd quarter

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Four things IMO

1. Roughead is too slow - even for a ruckman.
2. Jones got it mostly right against good opponents and must be given more game time
3. Hill needs to be dropped and given time to prove himself.
4. Robert Murphy should go foward in games like that. foward 50 entries were bloody awful.

He hasn't had a great two weeks, but why would you drop Hill?

There's a dozen other players I'd drop before Hill, starting with Cooney.

It's easy to drop Hill, Stack etc.

How about dropping players that should be leading from the front, but are instead trailing from the back?

[Bornadog]

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In Hudson, Gia, Higgins, Skinner

Out: Roughead, Gilbee and Hill, Grant


Gilbee has lost it in my opinion and Grant is out of touch.

[AndrewP6]

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He hasn't had a great two weeks, but why would you drop Hill?

There's a dozen other players I'd drop before Hill, starting with Cooney.

It's easy to drop Hill, Stack etc.

How about dropping players that should be leading from the front, but are instead trailing from the back?

FWIW, I'd drop Hill too. Spoils some good work with lacklustre efforts too often.