V PA @ SCG Sunday. Out: Davis N In: Barlow E

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  • BSA5
    Senior Player
    • Feb 2008
    • 2522

    #31
    Originally posted by BBB
    If true, could only be thru injury.......surely.
    According to afl.com.au, he was omitted. Although that doesn't mean much these days, does it?
    Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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    • Triple B
      Formerly 'BBB'
      • Feb 2003
      • 6999

      #32
      Gee, I'm no Davis lover by any stretch, but that selection staggers me.
      Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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      • Robbo
        On the Rookie List
        • May 2007
        • 2946

        #33
        Is Paul Bevan Roosy's love child or something?

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        • liz
          Veteran
          Site Admin
          • Jan 2003
          • 16786

          #34
          Originally posted by stellation
          Could it be something to do with Davis being pulled by Roos in the last minute of the game last week? Taking the shot from 50 was fine when he got it, but poor team play when he missed?

          I'd be staggered if that was the case. When your team has farted around for two hours, only managed 6 goals with completely crap supply into a constipated forward line yet with minutes to go needs only one kick to steal victory, surely you'd encouraging the only guy in the team who'll make the distance 99 times out a hundred to at least have a shot?

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          • Robbo
            On the Rookie List
            • May 2007
            • 2946

            #35
            Do the ressies play this week?

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            • stellation
              scott names the planets
              • Sep 2003
              • 9723

              #36
              Originally posted by liz
              I'd be staggered if that was the case. When your team has farted around for two hours, only managed 6 goals with completely crap supply into a constipated forward line yet with minutes to go needs only one kick to steal victory, surely you'd encouraging the only guy in the team who'll make the distance 99 times out a hundred to at least have a shot?
              As would I, but Davis being benched in the final minutes of a low scoring game when we are down by 2 was something that stood out as really rather odd from the game last week. For all we know he came off because he felt a twinge somewhere.

              Maybe he didn't turn up to training one day this week? Just a really suprising selection decision, if we are dropping a forward who played well last week for the sake of match-ups then we really have just gone way too defensive.
              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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              • ugg
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                Site Admin
                • Jan 2003
                • 15976

                #37
                Originally posted by Robbo
                Do the ressies play this week?
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                • stellation
                  scott names the planets
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 9723

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Robbo
                  Do the ressies play this week?
                  Nope, not until the 6th of April I believe.
                  I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                  We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                  • stellation
                    scott names the planets
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 9723

                    #39
                    d'oh!
                    I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                    We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                    • Triple B
                      Formerly 'BBB'
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 6999

                      #40
                      Originally posted by stellation
                      For all we know he came off because he felt a twinge somewhere.
                      Maybe he didn't turn up to training one day this week?
                      As pointed out earlier, neither of those scenarios are consistent with him being selected as an emergency. In both cases he would be left out completely.
                      Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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                      • stellation
                        scott names the planets
                        • Sep 2003
                        • 9723

                        #41
                        Oh certainly, I was just suggesting maybe there is more to it than just his form in the first game. He isn't a saint
                        I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                        We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                        • elroy67
                          Parking Cars
                          • Mar 2005
                          • 419

                          #42
                          Is this just some weird foxing by Roos?? Is Ablett really to be the omission??
                          If the selection is on form you could mount an argument to drop Goodes (or any of a number of other players) before Davis?

                          If not, what dumb thing has Davo done this time??
                          We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

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                          • Plugger46
                            Senior Player
                            • Apr 2003
                            • 3674

                            #43
                            Originally posted by liz
                            I'd be staggered if that was the case. When your team has farted around for two hours, only managed 6 goals with completely crap supply into a constipated forward line yet with minutes to go needs only one kick to steal victory, surely you'd encouraging the only guy in the team who'll make the distance 99 times out a hundred to at least have a shot?
                            Spot on.

                            Must have done something off-field. His game last week wasn't all that bad. We are very light-on for matchwinners as it is, and now we drop Davis. Unbelievable.

                            Disgusted.
                            Bloods

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                            • AnnieH
                              RWOs Black Sheep
                              • Aug 2006
                              • 11332

                              #44
                              Maybe Davo's in trouble for being in the media trying to portray himself as a "family-man" (rather than a home-wrecker).

                              Had he kicked the final goal he so gallantly went for against the ainters last week, we would have won.

                              That's probably why he was dropped.
                              Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                              Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                              • Ludwig
                                Veterans List
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 9359

                                #45
                                The change could have more to do about getting Barlow into the team than Davis out. And when it came to deciding who was to be omitted, Davis seemed to be the least to sacrifice. The more obvious candidate, according to this forum, would have been Bevan. But Port have a number of players that require a physical type of shutdown, and Bevan is not bad in that role.

                                If the coaching staff think that putting a hard tag on Ebert, for example, is critical to winning, and Bevan's the man to do it, I couldn't really agrue with that.

                                Personally, I would have dropped Bevan and perhaps switched Grundy to defence. But again, perhaps there is a long-term plan to have Grundy as a key forward as opposed to a defender.

                                I am far from being anti-Bevan. My quibble about keeping Bevo in the team is that I just can't see how he is going to fit into the squad long-term. We just have too many upcoming midfielder types that seem just as tough and can offer a lot more in attack. (But in fairness to Bevan, he did participate in a few good attacking moves on Saturday).

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