Outside of Hep for Langford can’t see many other changes
Zlarke will stay in, ordinary for most of game but slowly worked his way into it. You’d think the coaches/players should be able to ensure better connection from ruck/mids after the review. Smack stays fwd/ruck. Hooker needed for Ben Brown.
Snelling is pressing hard but not sure where you’d get him in. They aren’t going to drop Fantasia for him, so perhaps it’s LAV who had no impact and Snelling then genuinely playing that Smith role of manic pressuring fwd/mid
I’m a bit worried about our backline without Ambrose. I’m a bit worried about our mids - especially if Heppell is out & I’m worried about our ruck and our forward line!!
I just had a quick look at the Tribunal rules document.
The rules don’t allow for a bad record to be an automatic suspension and there is no maxing out of fines so to speak. They do allow for a bad record to mean the player can be sent directly to the Tribunal though.
However as the rules describe the penalty $ amounts for ‘third and subsequent offences’ it implies that a player can get multiple fines and that’s ‘OK’ i.e. it is only if a player has a bad record of more serious offenses that he might get sent to the Tribunal.
Oh I’m sorry. Did you miss Anzac day? You might think that falling across the line against Sydney it didn’t hurt us. But he’s going to need to kick some of those in the next few weeks if we’re going to be a chance.
We have looked so average without Hooker up forward over the past 2 weeks. Make that change now as if we don’t, we will be 6 goals down on Saturday by the time the move is made
The accumulation of his fines for indiscretions /bad record this year may well see him miss this week
AFL trying to stamp out off the ball punches and that was a blatant incident of it, complete brainfade really given ball with Saints player to his right instead.
