Here’s a guess for crows. Still look quite strong.
B: Brown Talia Otten
HB: Kelly Hartigan Laird
C: Atkins Sloane Seedsman
HF: Lynch McGovern Douglas
F: Betts Jenkins Milera
Foll: Jacobs M Crouch Gibbs
I/C: Doedee Mackay Greenwood, Fogarty
Missing from best 22 – Walker, B Crouch, Knight, Smith
I think the missing players for them are a bit stronger than our outs as walker, smith & crouch are all very good.
Except they were better to start with!! We need all hands on deck against this mob so our list of outs is disappointing.
Bombers by 13 points
They’ve given Langford No 4- time to step up now when we need him. He has plenty to prove so here’s his chance.
Dea Hartley Saad
McKenna Hurley Goddard
Zaka Heppell Smith
Stringer Daniher Stewart
Walla Hooker Green
Foll: TBell Merrett Parish
Int: McGrath Langford “insert two names here”
What have we had
Colyer - no pre season R6 at best
Mutch - lost most of his preseason gains R3-5
Ridley - no pre season R3-5
Lav - lost most of his preseason gains R4-6
Fantasia - missed the last bit R2-4?
Ambrose - impact injury R4-8
Gleeson - impact R15-16 at best
McNeice - not ready R1
Myers - not ready R1
Hooker - missed a bit of preseason?
Hurley - missed a big chunk of preseason
TBell - think he missed a bit too.
Any more?
Lav looks like a missmanagement. Interesting that all three were immediate scans yesterday. I’d say they are not going to let a player call tightness and guess anymore. As it’s ruined another season start for Lav.
Allot of talk about it being a real tough preseason, hopefully not too tough that we have broken them again.
Probably toughest pre season they had in a long time.
This is precisely the game 2009 Essington would win.
Lel
This is a direct contradiction to what you said two weeks ago.
Gibbs to get 35 uncontested HB possessions completely off the chain.
what?
That really is the weakest backline I’ve seen from them for a long time.
Otten and Hartigan are barely best 25, and Doedee hasn’t played a game yet.
Someone that can take the game by the scruff of the balls for us for once!
I’d go with something like:
B: Saad Hartley Dea
HB: Goddard Hurley McGrath
C: Zaharakis Heppell Smith
HF: Stringer Daniher Stewart
F: Green Hooker Walla
R: Bellchambers Zerrett Parish
I/C: McKenna Baguley Langford Begley
Joe to run rampart I hope
The injury to Gleeson is also clearly worse than first though given it was initially advised as 10-12 weeks - he will be in a moonboot for 12. If he gets back by round 16 or 17 he has done well.
I would wright him off for the season get him ready for 2019
Our backline will be rampart with Hurley and Hooker.
If Langford doesn’t get a game this Friday night with Myers out just delist him.