Schauble back!

[midaro]

Originally posted by DST
No mention that Schuable would come in to play down back !!!!

Yeah, good point.
Schauble could be useful at FF, whilst he gets some fitness.
But if Schnedier plays along side him, we'd probsbly want to get an oxygen tank put behind the point post to keep them both going.

Originally posted by DST
Fact is without LRT we lose a lot of flexibity.

Disagree here, with LRT OUT we lose NOTHING!

[stellation]

Originally posted by midaro

He's never exactly been an athlete - so unless he's needed for a specific job, I'd give him a month in the reserves for fitness.

I think a month is probably a little much considering how late in the season it is. One more full run in the reserves might be enough... I realize that it doesn't exactly relate to match fitness but he has been putting in the extra laps at training.

[stellation]

Originally posted by midaro

Disagree here, with LRT OUT we lose NOTHING!

No no no... with LRT out we lose our obvious matchup for Scott Stevens if he actually lines up at CHF

[midaro]

Originally posted by stellation
I think a month is probably a little much considering how late in the season it is. One more full run in the reserves might be enough... I realize that it doesn't exactly relate to match fitness but he has been putting in the extra laps at training.

Depends... he's not someone who strikes me as a naturally good mover.
...and he's had hamstring trouble for 15 weeks (?). If he hasn't been able to run during that period, I reckon he'll take some time.

But I do believe he is the kind of professional who would do the hard yards in the pool to keep his aerobic fitness up. So I don't know.

I just don't want to see more half fit players.

[Barry Schneider]

I thought O'Keefe was our "decoy" forward.If we want to really make it interesting for their defence we could rotate our ruckman through the forward pocket.

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by midaro
Depends... he's not someone who strikes me as a naturally good mover.
...and he's had hamstring trouble for 15 weeks (?). If he hasn't been able to run during that period, I reckon he'll take some time.

But I do believe he is the kind of professional who would do the hard yards in the pool to keep his aerobic fitness up. So I don't know.

I just don't want to see more half fit players.

I thought I heard somewhere that he's been running for six weeks now.

[Cheer Cheer]

Yes that 's correct, I believe in fact, he has been running for 7 weeks. In any case he has been running for a long time.

He should be ready.

[midaro]

Originally posted by Go Swannies
I thought I heard somewhere that he's been running for six weeks now.

If he's been running, why hasn't he been playing?

I'm not saying you're wrong - I have no info on this - but wasn't his problem a hamstring tear, come hamstring tendonitis? Isn't rest the only cure for tendonitis (of anything)?

If he's been running for weeks fantastic

He'll be a huge boost - free up Goodes