Match Committee- Round 6 vs Collingwood

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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Obviously no-one on here watched the press conference after the game where Brandan said that Gia will be in the team next week.

Gone a little early here, he could have had a shocker with willie.

[Rocco Jones]

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Gone a little early here, he could have had a shocker with willie.

Gia was out injured, he didn't play for Willy.

[Ghost Dog]

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In Shaggy, Marko um...good God is this going to make ANY difference?
The coach is going to have to roll the dice to even come close.
Their forward line is far too mobile for our backline at present. We will need more leg speed down there to keep up with the likes of Beams, Sidearse, Goldsack and crew.

Marko to Cloke I guess. If it becomes a hail of balls down there like it was against Westcoast, don't blame him.
Picken will need to shut down Swan. Should try a small forward line IMO to give us as much overlap as possible into the HF line, players that can run back fast the other way, Dahlhaus, Djekurra, Tutt if fit, cannot afford to have any players go without adding to the tackle count ( Vezpa?? What the hell was Saturday all about? ) Collingwood's defenders are too classy for our current forward line so we are going to have to have players who have confidence to bang it in from 50; Murphy to forward line or SOMETHING different. God we are predictable at times. Dawes has had a bad run and may be dropped. Hope so.

[Ozza]

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Out: Austin; Cordy; Wood

3 ruckman is 1 too many - but although the weekends game didn't reflect it - Roughead is a better option to 2nd ruck at this stage.

In: Hargrave; Gia; Markovic

B: Hargrave; Lake; Murphy
HB: Veszpremi; Markovic; Addison
C: Sherman; Boyd; Wallis;
HF: Higgins; Jones; Cooney
F: Grant; Roughead; Dahlhaus
R: Minson; Griffen; Picken
Int: Cross; Libba; Gia;
Sub: Djerkerra (probably stiff to be sub - but also probably most suited out of this side).

[Bornadog]

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Out: Austin; Cordy; Wood

3 ruckman is 1 too many - but although the weekends game didn't reflect it - Roughead is a better option to 2nd ruck at this stage.

In: Hargrave; Gia; Markovic

B: Hargrave; Lake; Murphy
HB: Veszpremi; Markovic; Addison
C: Sherman; Boyd; Wallis;
HF: Higgins; Jones; Cooney
F: Grant; Roughead; Dahlhaus
R: Minson; Griffen; Picken
Int: Cross; Libba; Gia;
Sub: Djerkerra (probably stiff to be sub - but also probably most suited out of this side).

Be a shame to drop Cordy now that he would have gained a lot of confidence from the weekends game. 6 marks was a good effort which we haven't seen from our talls in awhile.

[Ozza]

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Be a shame to drop Cordy now that he would have gained a lot of confidence from the weekends game. 6 marks was a good effort which we haven't seen from our talls in awhile.

I just think we are too tall and need another runner, its not a pot on Cordy.

[Bornadog]

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I just think we are too tall and need another runner, its not a pot on Cordy.

I prefer to drop Roughead.

[Ozza]

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I prefer to drop Roughead.

Thats fine. But you're basing it on how they went on the weekend just gone when Roughead didn't really get a genuine opportunity. The week before, Cordy was hopeless and Roughead went well in defence, and was ok in the ruck against Jamar also.

At some point this week, whoever the second ruckman is - is going to have to go against Jolly in the ruck, and man up on him when he pushes forward. I think at this stage in their careers, Roughead is better equipped for this.

[Missing-Dog]

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Thats fine. But you're basing it on how they went on the weekend just gone when Roughead didn't really get a genuine opportunity. The week before, Cordy was hopeless and Roughead went well in defence, and was ok in the ruck against Jamar also.

At some point this week, whoever the second ruckman is - is going to have to go against Jolly in the ruck, and man up on him when he pushes forward. I think at this stage in their careers, Roughead is better equipped for this.

I would leave Cordy up forward I think he showed he is gaining confidence and can take a grab. Might be just what we need against the pies :s

Then again too top heavy against the pies is never a good thing and I doubt Roughy is quick enough to keep up with Dawes. Etihad will suit us though as it is a smaller ground Picken to Swan is a must although Pendlebury might be the other option (more damaging imo).

Who takes sidebottom? He is on fire this season and does not stop running! Cross would be fit enough but clearly no where near fast enough.


Ins: Markovic, Hargrave
Out: Austin, Wood/Vez

[Mantis]

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I just think we are too tall and need another runner, its not a pot on Cordy.

And you've picked Gia as that runner??

Hopefully the week off has helped his running capabilities, because he was labouring in his first 4 games.

[chef]

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Does anyone know the latest on Marko and Hargrave?

[Cyberdoggie]

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And you've picked Gia as that runner??

Hopefully the week off has helped his running capabilities, because he was labouring in his first 4 games.

Yeah it's a worry when his favourite trick ( running under the flight with his opponent then double back around and running onto the ball) which he learned from Johnno doesn't work because the opponent has beaten him to the ball after being 5 meters behind him at the turn. He can't even rely on his smarts because he's too slow to even get the pill to use them.

Having said that our entire forward is a mess at the moment because we can't get the ball in quick enough, or with any skill and creativity. It's no wonder, Cordy, Jones, Gia, Grant are all struggling.

[jeemak]

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Yeah it's a worry when his favourite trick ( running under the flight with his opponent then double back around and running onto the ball) which he learned from Johnno doesn't work because the opponent has beaten him to the ball after being 5 meters behind him at the turn. He can't even rely on his smarts because he's too slow to even get the pill to use them.

Having said that our entire forward is a mess at the moment because we can't get the ball in quick enough, or with any skill and creativity. It's no wonder, Cordy, Jones, Gia, Grant are all struggling.

Spot on. There wouldn't be many harder things to do in modern football than play in our side as a medium sized forward, let alone a developing tall forward!

Slow movement and terrible kicking from our back six through the midfield, coupled with inexperience in our taller targets' positioning is rendering us ineffective more often than not. I struggle to see where we'll turn it around to be honest.

I'm still finding it hard to determine what our game plan will evolve in to as I've only seen us live against WCE (I spent the majority of the STK game in the bar!). I need to see more games to see how we'll improve our ball movement.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Wood is absolutely dreadful at the moment, he's probably desperate himself to be dropped he's playing that badly!

Roughy unlucky.

IN: Markovic, Hargrave, Giansiracusa
OUT: Austin, Wood, Roughead

[Bornadog]

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Wood is absolutely dreadful at the moment, he's probably desperate himself to be dropped he's playing that badly!

Roughy unlucky.

IN: Markovic, Hargrave, Giansiracusa
OUT: Austin, Wood, Roughead

I think this is what will happen.