Crouch, Grundy, Schmidt added to Sunday's squad V W. Bulldogs

[Damien]

WESTERN BULLDOGS v SYDNEY
Sunday, 1.10pm AEST, Manuka Oval

WESTERN BULLDOGS
B: Sam Power, Brian Harris, Dale Morris
HB: Lindsay Gilbee, Cameron Wight, Ryan Hargrave
C: Nathan Eagleton, Scott West, Jason Akermanis
HF: Daniel Giansiracusa, Brad Johnson, Adam Cooney
F: Andrew McDougall, Luke Darcy, Shaun Higgins
FOLL: Peter Street, Daniel Cross, Matthew Boyd
I/C (from): Dylan Addison, Cameron Faulkner, Mitch Hahn, Jarrod Harbrow, Will Minson, Farren Ray, Matthew Robbins

In: Faulkner, McDougall, Minson, Power, Robbins
Out: Ryan Griffen (Hamstring), Jordan McMahon (Thigh)

SYDNEY
B: Ted Richards, Leo Barry, Jared Crouch
HB: Tadhg Kennelly, Craig Bolton, Ben Mathews
C: Luke Ablett, Brett Kirk, Nick Malceski
HF: Ryan O?Keefe, Michael O?Loughlin, Jude Bolton
F: Nick Davis, Barry Hall, Amon Buchanan
FOLL: Darren Jolly, Adam Goodes, Nic Fosdike
I/C (from): Jarrad McVeigh, Peter Everitt, Adam Schneider, Paul Bevan, Tim Schmidt, Heath Grundy, Sean Dempster

In: Crouch, Grundy, Schmidt
Out: -

[573v30]

Crouch in the starting 22, bring on Aker!

[hammo]

That's a huge vote of confidence in Crouch. Surely one week wasn't enough, especially based on the RWO reports of the reserves last week. Picking on reputation is back this week.

[liz]

That's a huge vote of confidence in Crouch. Surely one week wasn't enough, especially based on the RWO reports of the reserves last week. Picking on reputation is back this week.

Not necessarily. I think it is the Aker factor.

And if you watched the reserves without any regard to what you expected from each player, you'd have picked Crouch as one of the stand-outs. It is just that, quite naturally, you'd judge him against different standards to the Jacks, Moores and Thorntons of this world.

Either Dempster or Bevan is going to be slightly stiff to miss though, because I don't think anyone deserves to be dropped after last week's effort.

[ScottH]

RSS: Crouch v Aker?

Jared Crouch will return to the Swans line-up to play the Western Bulldogs in Canberra on Sunday

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[Nico]

Fair dinkum if they bring in an out of form Crouch because of the Aker factor then I think that is very disappointing. So he "found" form against the backyard juniors, big deal. Thornton, Brabazon, Schmidt etc have "found" form in the 2's all season and consistently.
Surely that stands for something compared to an unfit and out of form fading handy footballer who cant keep up, who goes back for one week after a slap over the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf. Did someone say he is not in the leadership group, well if he is not he is surely is in the clique. His form has been very ordinary in the big time to say the least.
Isn't it time we started to blend the next generation with the existing one and let go of some of the past. It is inevitable, it has to happen sooner than later, lets move on.

[Nico]

The mail in Melbourne is that Johnson is only a 50/50 chance of playing and hence Robbins named on interchange. Wight is also doubtful.

[RogueSwan]

No Vogels? I would have thought that if he was going to get a run against any one this year it would be the Doggies. He has a great record against them!

[BigD]

The reason they sent Croucher back to the 2s was to find form. I can't see how his form could possibly have improved that much in one week.

[ROK Lobster]

The reason they sent Croucher back to the 2s was to find form. I can't see how his form could possibly have improved that much in one week.

It was his turn to pick the team

[Matt79]

This week's umpires...

WESTERN BULLDOGS vs SYDNEY
Vozzo, Ryan, K.Nicholls

[SimonH]

Not necessarily. I think it is the Aker factor.

And if you watched the reserves without any regard to what you expected from each player, you'd have picked Crouch as one of the stand-outs. It is just that, quite naturally, you'd judge him against different standards to the Jacks, Moores and Thorntons of this world.

Either Dempster or Bevan is going to be slightly stiff to miss though, because I don't think anyone deserves to be dropped after last week's effort.

Dropping either McVeigh or Schneider just won't happen (barring huge shocks). Dropping Dempster would be a surreal decision after last week. So, all of the Bevan-haters here might be about to be made very happy. Trouble is, many of them are Crouch-sceptics, too, so I suppose they'll just keep their residual level of grumpiness static.

[hammo]

Premiership credits:

Crouch, Dempster, Bevan >>>>> McVeigh

On a serious note, you'd hate to be a fringe player in this team. Not much of an opportunity to settle in the team before you're sent back to the reserves. Whether its Bevan or Dempster, they can both feel very hardly done by just as Jack and Schmidt before them.

[voodooguru]

Crouch in for Bevan to play on Aker.

Up until he was beaten by multiple injuries, Crouch was an intrinsic part of the team. Another tagger yes, but possibly the best in the business. Able to play on a midfielder or a dangerous small forward. HAD speed and a penetrating kick on the rebound, I'd be happy if he got back to that.

Bevan was good enough last week and one week in the 2s for Crouch wouldn't seem to be enough, but Aker would know that Crouch lit the fuse that blew him out of Brisbane.

Glad to see that matchup nightmare Griffo is out. He was just running into a bit of form.

On his form last week, McVeigh escapes the axe - bye bye Bevo?