Yep. And as @Truck pointed out, given the layoffs that are happening in clubs due to financial issues, paying a $10-$20k fine to bring in someone external to our named squad would be poor form.
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Canāt see Melbourne kicking a winning score with that lineup.
Well one of them has to come in against Carlton cant play the rest of the season with an under sized midfield
We should just embrace the Sheil, Parish & McGrath clearance team.
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Interestingly, since Raz and Hepp arenāt fit theyāve elevated Lav and Phillips to emergencies. Must be a rule that if youāre playing on Sunday you donāt have to lock emergencies in until Friday when the final squad is named.
So technically they could have named Hibberd as an emergency and then played him without getting fined (player x has calf tightness). Theyāve just chosen not to.
*also might be a slick trick for getting a second ruck on the team without drawing too much attention to it.
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Further evidence they should just let Sunday teams announce their teams on Friday.
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Jones been dropped
Still have Oliver,Viney,Brayshaw
Zaharakis maintaining his spot must only hurt the team culture, surely?
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With Fanta not even an emergency Iāll be very interested to see if he plays any minutes in the scratch match. I hope he does as that would be pretty encouraging that everything is on track but they just didnāt feel he was AFL ready.
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He probably will. Thatās why they havenāt named him as an emergency iād say.
To compound heppās injury they reckon up to 3mm now.
Hepp is our best wet weather player and we look too top heavy if there is 3mm of rain
Melbourne are ā ā ā ā ā ā ā pathetic. The only 2 wins theyāve had in their last 10 AFL games are Carlton last week by 1 point andā¦ you guessed it, Carlton in round 16 last season by 5 points.
Walk in the park.
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who are the emergenciesā¦
- Matt Guelfi, 29. Patrick Ambrose, 15. Jayden Laverde, 34. Andrew Phillips
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Itās going to be a classic battle of āinside vs outsideā Melbourne opted in for Vandenberg and Hannan who add a bit of grunt and we opted in for Ham and McKenna who have elite endurance & speed respectively. Will be very interesting to watch. Iām praying to god (if he exists) that Zaka steps up whilst Hep is down, surely he can lift from his last performance. I think if we can contain Gawns influence we will have it in the bag.
Will be wet so I think theyāre one step ahead of us
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Their season was shot at the end of last season. 2020 is a new year for them. Gawn getting first use and Petracca in good form gives them some confidence going into Sundayās match.
true, but if we replaced ham with the replacement that replaced him in the emergencies list (ala hibbard) then we beat the system right ?
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ESSENDONāS ROUND THREE LINE-UP
Backs: 10. Aaron Francis, 26. Cale Hooker, 18. Michael Hurley
Half-backs: 42. Adam Saad, 27. Mason Redman, 14. Jordan Ridley
Centre: 12. Tom Cutler, 1. Andrew McGrath, 11. David Zaharakis
Half-forwards: 5. Devon Smith, 7. Zach Merrett, 43. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti
Forwards : 40. Will Snelling, 44. Shaun McKernan, 20. Jacob Townsend
Followers: 2. Tom Bellchambers, 9. Dylan Shiel, 3. Darcy Parish
Interchange: 25. Jake Stringer, 4. Kyle Langford, 45. Conor McKenna, 33. Brayden Ham
Emergencies: 35. Matt Guelfi, 29. Patrick Ambrose, 15. Jayden Laverde, 34. Andrew Phillips
In: McKenna, Ham
Out: Heppell (ankle), Guelfi (omitted)
Weather says that rain should clear up by midday and be dry for the remainder.
Iām a weather novice though - can anyone else confirm?