Always Right Match Committee Round 23 VS North Melbourne

[Hotdog60]

I've worked it out Treloar, Bontempelli and Richards to half back and Freijeh, Garcia and Harmes in the middle and if their mid so much look at the ball palmed down to them we tackle the crap out of them. We run our center clearance of the half back line.

[Jeanette54]

Whatever happens, I would much prefer Darcy not to play as the main ruckman. He has been largely injury free so far this year.

[jeemak]

Whatever happens, I would much prefer Darcy not to play as the main ruckman. He has been largely injury free so far this year.

It's good point J54, and especially so given Naughton's issues whatever they actually are.

[1eyedog]

Seriously? The renaissance man forgets he play Ruck, CHB, FWD after a game maybe two? Lobb is thriving on being needed in AFL games. He's made it known he needs to play AFL not VFL and it doesn't matter what position, he will give his all and he has. He's become the ultimate team man when many of us witnessed him appearing to be on autopilot earlier in the year. Sure an uninterrupted go at CHB would be ideal for his development but he's proved himself to be more talented and truly versatile than any of Bevo's wacko positional punts. He'll click back in to CHB because he's learnt the reward of stretching his skills. His success at CHB is largely from his rucking experience not his fwd experience. Not many players prosper in multiple roles but he does, it suits him and I reckon he deserves more trust than what he's being afforded at the moment.

I don't he's at his third club and up until 6 weeks ago was more than halfway to his fourth. I'd like to see some continuity there first because trust is hard to build and Rory has a history of flopping in and out of football conciousness.

Vote 1 for 2 metre Keath in the ruck.

[Grantysghost]

The Western Bulldogs will make at least three changes against North Melbourne this Sunday.
Tim English will miss the clash with an ankle injury, while Riley Garcia (omitted) and Nick Coffield (omitted) will also miss.
Joel Freijah is the only confirmed inclusion at this stage, with Harvey Gallagher, Arthur Jones, Alex Keath, Jack Macrae and James O’Donnell making up part of the extended interchange

[bornadog]

Please not Keath - he is cooked

[bornadog]

WESTERN BULLDOGS


In: J.Freijah, H.Gallagher, A.Jones, A.Keath, J.Macrae, J.O'Donnell
Out: N.Coffield (omitted), T.English (ankle), R.Garcia (omitted)


Last week's sub: Caleb Daniel

[Grantysghost]

Wonder if that's curtains for Garcia.

[bornadog]

[bornadog]

Wonder if that's curtains for Garcia.

You can say what you want, but he had his chances and he hasn't played well.

[hujsh]

Given G's reports it looks like Coffield is the mystery omission as expected and given Freijah is named on the wing Poulter should be the other omission once the bench is confirmed.

Thinking back to Brisbane I would not be surprised if J.O'Donnell was brought in as a forward to either second ruck or swing back and cover Lobb when Lobb rucks

Given that my guess on final changes

Out: N.Coffield, T.English, R.Garcia, Poulter
In: Gallager (sub), JOD, Macrae, Freijah

[Bullies]

Given G's reports it looks like Coffield is the mystery omission as expected and given Freijah is named on the wing Poulter should be the other omission once the bench is confirmed.

Thinking back to Brisbane I would not be surprised if J.O'Donnell was brought in as a forward to either second ruck or swing back and cover Lobb when Lobb rucks

Given that my guess on final changes

Out: N.Coffield, T.English, R.Garcia, Poulter
In: Gallager (sub), JOD, Macrae, Freijah

Would Buku not go forward and JOD go back? I would actually prefer to see JOD on wing in place of Poulter.

[GVGjr]

We should be able to confirm the line-up early tomorrow as it's more or less a captains run for the VFL players. They'll hold and extra player back though.

I'm going with 4 inclusions this week with Freijah (confirmed) Macrae, Gallagher and JOD coming in
Outs English, Garcia, Coffield (all confirmed) and Poulter. Poults should stay in Melbourne
I'm tipping that Williams might play forward this week.

[1eyedog]

Wonder if that's curtains for Garcia.

They don't like what he does do they.

[hujsh]

Would Buku not go forward and JOD go back? I would actually prefer to see JOD on wing in place of Poulter.

I'm partly going by the named side with Buku back. Assuming that's accurate it makes more sense to me to ruck Lobb in support of Darcy since he's named as the starting Ruck. Darcy+Buku feels like it's putting extra pressure on Darcy in a way.