Changes for Round 5 v Saints

[BSA5]

If he does go I hope he doesn't get a roasting from the coach.

So long as he doesn't shank anything he should be right.

[Gezball]

So long as he doesn't shank anything he should be right.

If he gets a start and plays well on thursday many posters on here will be feeling pretty sheepish.

[swanspant12]

Out: LRT (if injured)
In: The Great White Hope

[swansrob]

Out: LRT (if injured)
In: The Great White Hope

This. White has been emergency every round so far - surely he's the one to come in for LRT.

[swanspant12]

This. White has been emergency every round so far - surely he's the one to come in for LRT.

Yep. Whitey had a great pre-season aswell. Honestly ive never understood the bagging of Whitey. He's a good all round ruckman and can go forward. He applies pressure and can kick a snag. Stop the white farce horse!

[Ludwig]

Yep. Whitey had a great pre-season aswell. Honestly ive never understood the bagging of Whitey. He's a good all round ruckman and can go forward. He applies pressure and can kick a snag. Stop the white farce horse!

He hasn't had a chance to show his improvement at AFL level, and unlikely to get that opportunity at a team with the depth of the Swans, unless there are more injuries than we would like to think about. I believe I suggested that he be rotated with Pyke last year and thought they were about equal. Boy, was I wrong about that one. He is also out of contract at the end of the season and we probably need to unload his salary to fit in Tippett. So it's hard to see him remaining at the club next year.

I hope he gets an opportunity somewhere next near. It seems to have worked for Cambo. If he went to the Cats instead of McIntosh, White would probably be playing now.

[Hartijon]

Out: LRT
In: Tippett (disguised as LRT

[Chilcott]

Out: LRT, Armstrong, Morton

In: Brown, Bird, Lamb

[ugg]

LRT was playing forward when he got injured, Rampe was the third tall defender playing on Blicavs and then later on on Pods. They obviously have confidence in him performing this role so I don't necessarily think we need to bring in another tall defender, be it Walsh, Everitt or Brown just for the sake of it.

[Captain]

In: Everitt, Bird
Out: LRT, Rampe

[Ludwig]

Just saw that Beau Maister is out for a few weeks, so probably don't need to replace LRT with another tall.

If we don't breeze through the next 2 games, something's not right. Both SK and Bri are not playing well.

[swansrob]

Lamb has flown over with the squad

[Triple B]

Cannot see the logic in dropping Morton as some have suggested. He was banging so loudly on the door for selection that he couldn't be ignored and was given the callup.

Half a game later, and a half where our midfield got totally obliterated, some people want him out again?

Unless Tippett has just been given 8 weeks off for good behaviour, I see no reason not to give him another game, hopefully a full one....

[Matimbo]

Lamb has flown over with the squad

Holy crap ... a flying sheep!!

[Matimbo]

I wouldn't change the team, other than the forced replacement of LRT. Instead, I'd change the gameplan:

1. We've been playing both Mummy and Pykey for most of the game, rotating the non-rucking one into the fwds. I'd go back to resting the non-rucking one on the bench to see if this gives Mummy more of an impact. Hopefully allows him to bust out of his current lack of form.

2. The tall forward line gameplan was relying on either plenty of marks or else our smaller players crumbing well. Did work in earlier games but I thought it backfired against the Cats - I can recall a number of times our talls bringing the ball to ground resulting in the Cats picking it up outside the 50 and rebounding quickly. So don't give the Saints predictability, play one less tall in the fwds and replace with MM. Not quite so much long bombing into the 50, mix it up with chipping around to find the loose man. We should be able to outpace the older Saints squad.

3. Replace LRT with Bird - aligned with the "less talls" option, justified by a couple of key Saints talls likely to be out injured. Plus I agree with other posters that we look to be missing Bird on the HB line. Could be used as a key tagger for one of their mids/small fwds

4. Horse admits we fell into the trap of playing the Cats at their own high pace game. We kept up really well for half a game only. Our team knows this and will be dirty about it. So keep the squad intact and challenge them to go out against the Saints and dictate terms.