Who comes in for Saddo ?

[liz]

Originally posted by BAM_BAM
I don't think our first half performace rests solely on Saddo's shoulders. He was unlucky with at least one the goals Brown got. If he controlled that mark I'm a monkey's unlce.

It's ridiculous and unfair to suggest it was down to Saddo on his own. Brown was on fire and had the umps cheering him on as well, as suggested above. That mark was dubious, the free was soft, and his next mark he was standing behind Saddo with his arms wrapped around Saddo's waist, before moving around him to get front position. Clearly there's "holding", and there's "holding".

And without taking anything away from Bolton's performance for the rest of the game, Brown still had three more scoring shots on goal, each from legitimate marks, and he probably should have scored goals from each of them.

The whole team was outplayed for most of the first half. It's just to their credit that they minimised the damage and didn't panic.

[caj23]

If Doyle is ready it will be a straight swap. I'd guess that given his lack of match fitness they'll use him as a pinch hitter at full forward from the bench. His inclusion should not have an impact on Meilkejohn.

If he's not ready then it will be from Powell, Warfe and Nicks (please no!).

My choice from those would be Powell as I think he would be another option to play on Tarrant should he have another one of those games against us.

[CureTheSane]

Originally posted by TheHood
Seymour Butts? You have got to be kidding me!

His best days are so far behind him, he needs a memory transplant with Arthur Tunstall to recall.

Don't get me wrong, Butts has had some great days with our club but he has been slow, clumsy and ineffective for over a year and yes a lot of it is injury related, but it's too much to overcome.

Based on what?

His form in the reserves?

Being a contracted traditional backman playing for a club with shortcomings in the back line.

A player who has faced some injuries?
Bet, Doyle, Ball, O'Keefe and James etc might give him the befefit of the doubt

If you have some sort of genuine reason for not letting him have a run, state it.....

[Rod_]

I feel sorry for Saddo - IMO he is one the best half back flankers - unfortinately we need him to fill a key position (CHB)and 50 - 60 % of the time he can do it.... However the size and umpiring issues made him look BA on Sunday.

Being injured won't won't give us a better player on the ground (Pending what Heath can do.... he is short a of run or 2 in the seniors)

Is LRT up to the CHB position?

If Doyle is fit enough he gets my vote.... (needs 2 games to let us know if he is good enough If not Powell or Seymour as a preference to others..

[sharp9]

MJ should definitely stay IMO. He is a big unit and got his hands to the ball a reasonable amount of time for someone so young (shame that the Lions sharked all his good taps!!!!)

He looks like a"proper" ruckman (compared to Goodes and LRT) and God knows we could do with one.

James looked a half a million bucks and must stay now.

Powell is the obvious straight swap for Saddington....and I, too, wonder why LRT hardly ever seems to be a CHB when we all thought hea was being groomed to play there.

BTW did anyone notice the improvement in LRT's kicking? His handballing is already good but he sent one perfectly weighted flat 40 metre pass onto the chest of Micky that made a few of the efforts by Crouch, Fossy and Jude look even more ordinary.

Also a fantastic spoil from behind of two big Lions (in our forward line) which, think, ended up with a shot on goal....should have laid out Aker, though

Watching the replay I also saw a few more times when we were ****ed by the umps. Bazza thunped in the nose by Scott (in front of goal) Aker eye-gouging after the free (in front of their goal - should have been reversed) Brown holding Saddo to claim that dinky kick (in front of goal) Schauble pinged (didn't score, luckily) ridiculously soft free to Brown (where were the other forty not paid during the game?) and a non mark paid to Brown. That's four goals they shouldn't have got and one for us that we should have.

Could have been a bath instead of a close win