Changes for Rnd 4 v the Roos

[ernie koala]

I second this, no half fit players. Sick of seeing some of our past stars out there looking ordinary because of lack of a run. Can't play suspect players in the wet it will find them out.

Yet you want Armstrong in the team this week....Once again, the facts.... he's had NO preseason and ONLY 2 weeks of training and playing...?????

[Big Al]

Yet you want Armstrong in the team this week....Once again, the facts.... he's had NO preseason and ONLY 2 weeks of training and playing...?????

He seemed to run the game out well last week but only the coaches will know if he met all his KPI's and how he pulled up. From the outside it would be a risk to take a player with this limited preparation into an AFL game.

[wolftone57]

Probably no to both. Might be a wet game, so Tommy probably isn't ideal, while a dry day might encourage a midfielder type like Harry instead of TDL. I'm not too sure how much his forward pressure has improved, but certainly North will go into the game trying to run us off our feet and play on with every chance. We need to make sure our intensity and tackling pressure is up as M_B mentioned so that might work against him?

From what I have seen TDL's tackling and pressure have been good. Not that I have seen a lot of him in the forward line as he has played mainly in the mids. But he has rested a bit on the forward line and seems to really want to keep it in. I prefer him in the wet to Harry and Walshy.

[Rod_]

Moore for Goodes, and

Maybe Nipper Gordon for wet weather - out Everett?

Rod

[wolftone57]

Need some goals from somewhere in Goodes absence - I think TDL may be an option. Any word on Smithy? Thomas looked very dangerous indeed last week.

Smithy is still recovering from a middle ear infection and won't be available.

[wolftone57]

Yet you want Armstrong in the team this week....Once again, the facts.... he's had NO preseason and ONLY 2 weeks of training and playing...?????

Nor has ROK Ernie. Fact Armstrong has played most of the resies games. You got it wrong! The resies game against the GWS was cancelled, a pre-season match not a fixture. They then played the first fixture match against GWS, then a trial against GWS again, the Suns and Ainslie. He has played all the games from the GWS Trial game. That makes three as far as I can see.

ROK has had three games off and had a light pre-season as he had a couple of niggles as well. Didn't play in the Intra. Got injured in the NAB and is still in recovery and not match fit.

[Triple B]

Lol ... where's a 'shakes head' emoticon when you need one...

[liz]

Nor has ROK Ernie. Fact Armstrong has played all of the resies games. You got it wrong! The resies game against the GWS was cancelled, a pre-season match not a fixture. They then played the first match against GWS, then a trial against GWS again, the Suns and Ainslie. He has played all the games from the GWS Trial game. That makes three as far as I

ROK completed a full pre-season up to the point a couple of weeks before the NAB Cup started, when he sustained a knee injury. That probably cost him a couple of weeks of training. He is a player who has been in the system for more than a decade and who has developed excellent endurance over all those pre-seasons. A couple of weeks off (and no match conditioning in the NAB Cup) would have cost him a little touch but won't have significant set back his endurance base.

Armstrong has been in the system many years fewer and missed practically the whole pre-season with injury. The fitness base he will have built over the last month or so of training and playing reserves footy isn't comparable to that ROK would have built over 2 to 3 months of solid training leading up to Christmas and just after.

[Primmy]

What liz said.

Would be surprised not to see Bulldog in the mix for this week. Smart head, not fast, slow track, good decision maker.

IMHO, ROK to CHF. Nipper in for ROK, and/or Doggy.

Keep Andrejs (or Drey, as the boys call him) but as sub; he doesn't like it and keeps working to prove he is better utilised as a 21 team member.

If Benny is out, I wouldn't mind seeing Dylan McNeil get a gig but TDL has Got to be in the mix.

Armstrong just has not played enough yet in number of game time hours due to preseason injury etc, to get a call up over other players who are just as good and have managed a full pre season of match seasoning (you know what I mean, ignore the english).

It will be interesting to see how this all pans out. Especially with a wet track.

[Dosser]

Lol ... where's a 'shakes head' emoticon when you need one...

It's de ja vu all over again!

[Nico]

The last player who should come in if it is wet is TDL. He has shown that he is a soft player and a wet day would be too much for him. Moore is far too slow, and in an era when forward pressure is a must his lack of pace relegates him to a reserves player. He doesn't get enough of the footy in the 1's.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

According to the BoM it'll be wet from now on, which means we should have less worry about Petrie/Goldsmith/McIntosh which is good. On the other hand we are crap in the wet, we are so bad I sometimes wonder whether we should abandon the Swans emblem (God I hope no humourless sod sees that as a serious suggestion and decides to question my club loyalties again).

So Smith and LRT are still out, and with Armstrong unready?!?!
I suggest we include TDL instead of Drey, and bring Stumpy or Cunningham in for Goodes, let's go small in the cold and rain (I tend to)

[Nico]

Regardless of reserves form Morton might get a gig. Bigger body on a wet day.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Regardless of reserves form Morton might get a gig. Bigger body on a wet day.

Hell why not, they promoted 'Drey FFS

[Melbourne_Blood]

I thought ressies watchers had been pumping up TDL's improved defensive pressure, tacklnig etc. ? That coupled with his knack for a goal and his skills would make him as good a candidate as any to come into the team. Moore is too slow, the wet will only make him slower, and as you mentoned he deosnt get enough of the balls in the 1's.