Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

[G-Mo77]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Heard Pavlich could be out with a hamstring injury.

This season I want to face the best as often as possible and at full strength so I'm disappointed their best player may miss.

[jeemak]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Heard Pavlich could be out with a hamstring injury.

This season I want to face the best as often as possible and at full strength so I'm disappointed their best player may miss.

Understand the sentiment, for sure, but if Pavlich missing is an out just like Boyd is then I'll happily take the win.

That might be a bit cheeky, I suppose, but Boyd out is still a big deal for us even if his position played and game style doesn't expose us with him being out that Pavlich does for the Dockers.

[Eastdog]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Understand the sentiment, for sure, but if Pavlich missing is an out just like Boyd is then I'll happily take the win.

That might be a bit cheeky, I suppose, but Boyd out is still a big deal for us even if his position played and game style doesn't expose us with him being out that Pavlich does for the Dockers.

Sandilands is another player out for Freo so that is in our favour too.

[LongWait]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Lot of talk in this thread about changing things up to match up against Freo. I think the game will be won and lost on who gets to play the style of game they want to play. We have recruited and trained to play a certain way, we should always aim to play in that fashion.

This game will be a test of whether or not we can 'control' a game against quality opposition.

I agree completely gogriff - it would be a mistake to deviate from our game plan and go too negative. Let's try ourselves against Freo on our terms as we'd like to play.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

@TonySheahan: Freo Captain Matthew Pavlich unlikely to line up against the Western Bulldogs. Hamstring strain said to be cause

[jeemak]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

I agree completely gogriff - it would be a mistake to deviate from our game plan and go too negative. Let's try ourselves against Freo on our terms as we'd like to play.

While I agree our back six worked well together last week, and we need to take opportunities to allow them continue on that path I think taking Picken out from there if it will give our midfield an advantage isn't such a bad idea.

He's our best tagger, and Fremantle have at least two or three players worth tagging, so it kind of makes sense to me to tag early and get a midfield advantage early on.

If it happens that we gain an advantage off the back of that in the first half, then we can easily send Picken back. It will take the Fremantle midfield time to adjust if that was the case.

We need to be flexible with our defensive structures, and I'm not really sure Picken's going to be the answer down there long term when he's so good at what he does playing on midfielders anyway.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Fremantle
B: Kepler Bradley, Zac Dawson, Michael Johnson
HB: Paul Duffield, Luke McPharlin, Lee Spurr
C: Tendai Mzungu, Michael Barlow, Clancee Pearce
HF: Ryan Crowley, Matthew Pavlich, Nathan Fyfe
FF: Hayden Crozier, Chris Mayne, Michael Walters
Foll: Jonathon Griffin, Stephen Hill, David Mundy
I/C: Danyle Pearce,Nick Suban,Matt De Boer,Cameron Sutcliffe
EMG: Tom Sheridan,Jack Hannath,Lachie Neale

Just looking at Freo's team, If Pavlich does miss, that makes there forward line extremely small.

You would expect Bradley to spend majority of the time forward, Roughead is a great match up for him.

Morris would go to Mayne.

Where does that leave Young? Does he have a match-up? Are any of Freo's emergencies tall forwards?

Even though Young was great last week, Would it be an option to bring in Wood for him? Or even bring in Macrae to give us more midfield depth and speed.

[GVGjr]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

Fremantle
B: Kepler Bradley, Zac Dawson, Michael Johnson
HB: Paul Duffield, Luke McPharlin, Lee Spurr
C: Tendai Mzungu, Michael Barlow, Clancee Pearce
HF: Ryan Crowley, Matthew Pavlich, Nathan Fyfe
FF: Hayden Crozier, Chris Mayne, Michael Walters
Foll: Jonathon Griffin, Stephen Hill, David Mundy
I/C: Danyle Pearce,Nick Suban,Matt De Boer,Cameron Sutcliffe
EMG: Tom Sheridan,Jack Hannath,Lachie Neale

Just looking at Freo's team, If Pavlich does miss, that makes there forward line extremely small.

You would expect Bradley to spend majority of the time forward, Roughead is a great match up for him.

Morris would go to Mayne.

Where does that leave Young? Does he have a match-up? Are any of Freo's emergencies tall forwards?

Even though Young was great last week, Would it be an option to bring in Wood for him? Or even bring in Macrae to give us more midfield depth and speed.

If Pav doesn't play I'd expect them to throw Johnson forward so I suppose it would be Young to match-up on him.

[Happy Days]

Re: Match preview. Dogs v Dockers. Sat. April 6

If Pav doesn't play I'd expect them to throw Johnson forward so I suppose it would be Young to match-up on him.

You would think Hannath would come in for him too, which would give Griffin scope to go forward; not even close to as talented a forward, but not small either.