Changes vs GWS (2020, round 10) - speculation

fck me dead just end the season now

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No changes

Out TBC and probably Ham
In: Smack and Langford

And I thought Smack needed to be dropped, but if TBC was struggling in the ruck he’s a bush league key forward.

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So we have a 7 day break. It is probably our last chance to win a game before the really tight schedule hits. Play the best team we can field - one last roll of the dice. I would go…
In: Langford, McKernan, Hibberd, McKenna
Out: Cahill, Ham, Belly, Redman

Gleeson BZT Saad
McKenna Hurley Ridley
Langford Shiel Cutler
AMT McKernan Smith
Townsend Stewart Snelling
Draper Merrett McGrath
Parish Francis Hibberd Zaka

Reality - who gives a sheet.

Our team balance was well off tonight. I’d look at giving Mozzie a go and giving Cahill a rest. You can’t carry all 3 of Gleeson, Redman and Francis.

IN: Langford, McKenna, McKernan, Mosquito

OUT: Bellchambers, Gleeson, Redman, Cahill

Saad - Hurley - Ridley
McKenna - BZT - Francis
Langford - McGrath - Cutler
Walla - McKernan - Smith
Mosquito - Stewart - Townsend

Draper - Shiel - Merrett

INT: Zaharakis, Parish, Snelling, Ham.

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IN: Kicking the ball to a teammate
OUT: Kicking the ball to a pack of opposition players

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In: Mozzie
Out: Cahill

In: Langford
Out: Tbell

In: Mutch/Clarke/Begley/Guelfi
Out:Zaka

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In: A foward in that actually makes a run at the ball carrier.

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seriously what the actual fkg point of dropping guys like Cahill, ham for plodders like mutch, hibberd and Begley

it makes zero sense. zero

start by dropping some guys who are COOKED and consistently bad. who will not improve and play one or two good ones then 6 sh*t ones

Zaharakis, Townsend and bellchambers can fck off forever as far as I’m concerned. all of them are terribly inconsistent and have been for years, and it’s not any detriment to the side if they don’t play. do we lose anything if none of them guys don’t play? i don’t think so

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The frustrating thing is that in a normal season i think the likes of those you’ve mentioned do get dropped to the VFL.

I think the point is that they’re not physically ready to play every week yet. I think it hurts their development to keep playing them at the moment. I’d give Ham a couple of weeks off then bring him back. He’ll probably bounce back well.
I like Cahill and think he’s got something, but I’d give him a longer spell and try Mozzie for a little while. The taste will have done Cahill good and now he needs time to work on a few things before getting another go. But in his case, that next go mightn’t be til next season when he’s had a chance to get a bit bigger and stronger

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Langford for Ham
McKernan for Bellchambers
Mozzie for Cahill
McKenna for Redman

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kids aren’t going to be consistent every week. it’s all part and parcel of playing them. they will get better the longer they play…we all bemoan we don’t ā€œplay the kidsā€ and then want to drop them all after a few weeks

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worsfold said Langford is the only guy likely to come in

Take out the umpires and we are a 4 goal better side.

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Some dead set sooks in here. We lost a game of footy with a depleted side. We’ve won 5. Get some perspective and dry your eyes.

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We’ve got little to no chance of winning many more games for the season let alone being finals relevant, so stick with the kids, let Rutten/Caracella have a good look at everyone across the list in action so they can properly assess them without any VFL, get a pick around 6 and decide how they’re going raise this club out of the mire of mediocrity. I’m giving them 2 and half seasons from now.

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I don’t believe he meant that. I think he was referring to who comes back from being unavailable.
There is no chance of being only one change

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Would they really be dropped on form? If Cahill or Ham comes out of the side it’d be to freshen them up. Particularly over the condensed run of games. Ham looked pretty cooked yesterday.

The forward line looks lost. I’m not sure what they do - shuffling in and out 3 new players isn’t going to fix it. Not in one week anyway.

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yeah which I took as McKenna and McKernan would be unavailable again. guys who you listed as in