Changes v Tigers (aka will ROK get a farewell game?)

[bloodsbigot]

Sorry ROK.

Onwards to victory!

Yep, sorry ROK, it's for the greater good...

[Meg]

You cats suck. Send him off in style.

Sorry Stella, sorry ROK! Have loved ROK as a Swan so I really am sad. But that's the way professional footy goes sometimes.

[Matt80]

You just looove controversy!!

If any of the above players that I've suggested to rest get injured in the Tigers game, you would be kicking yourself.

The ins are quite handy and the team would not lose much. Sam Reid needs a chance to play a key forward post to built his confidence. He can't do that with Tippett and Buddy in the team. You can't let anything happen to Pyke. Mglynn need to build some match fitness in the midfield. Its easier to do that with Mcveigh and Jack out if the team.

[Bloods05]

Outs - Buddy (rested), Kiran Jack (rested), Jarrod Mcveigh (rested) Adam Goodes (rested), Mike Pyke (rested), Lewis Jetta (rested), Ted Richards (rested), Nick Malceski (rested)

Ins - Mglynn, Bird, Kenndy, Reid, Walsh, Membrey, Jones, Naismith

That's not JohnLongmireElectricPace80TacklesHorseball! Won't happen.

[0918330512]

If any of the above players that I've suggested to rest get injured in the Tigers game, you would be kicking yourself.

True enough, but your shot-gun approach with theories (ie proposing a plethora of different ones, week after week) means sooner or later one is going to hit the mark. Kind of like Jetta's goal kicking in 2010 ... he had to get one right eventually

[ernie koala]

No doubt, who ever goes out next week, and beyond, will be unlucky.

Biggs did an outstanding job on Griffin today...Love to see how he goes on Martin next week.

Bird won't play next week, according to Horse.

I like Reid, but the balance today looked better without him.

So for me....

IN : Kennedy, McGlynn

OUT : Towers, Laidler....

So my team for next week...

B : Smith Richards Rampe
HB : Malceski Grundy Rohan
C : Jetta Jack Hannebery
HF : Parker Franklin Goodes
F : Cunningham Tippett McGlynn
FOL : Pyke Kennedy McVeigh
INT : Biggs Lloyd Mitchell
SUB : Shaw

[ShockOfHair]

If any of the above players that I've suggested to rest get injured in the Tigers game, you would be kicking yourself.

WHoa... as powerful as we RWO posters might be, we can't be held responsible for player injuries.

The theory of 'resting' is to give players who are not injured the chance to freshen up. If you want to avoid injuries you'd send out your rookies and topups.

Personally I don't like en masse resting of players, ROss Lyon-style - it's cynical gamesmanship. But if one or two players are rested in a dead rubber so as not to risk further injury, like Josh and I suspect Reid today, seems fair enough. But it has to be done on the basis of their medical condition, not just according to a random list.

[Bloody Hell]

It's got nothing to do with being professional or whatever.

You cannot give a farewell game to someone who hasn't retired....shall we give Goodes a farewell game too?

As always, I vote ROK is HOT.

[jono2707]

If any of the above players that I've suggested to rest get injured in the Tigers game, you would be kicking yourself.

a) injuries are always a possibility - it's footy.

b) Longmire has said he will not rest players. As we have seen, if someone is not 100% they will not play, but there's been no resting. It's not part of any system he employs.

c) have we looked like a tired team with players who need a rest over the last few weeks? Hardly.

d) Freo have at times chosen to rest players, but that's very much due to the amount of travel the west coast teams have to do. Whilst Homebush is a fair way away from home for the next 2 weeks, it's not an insurmountable distance in the great scheme of things.

e) win in two weeks time and we all get a weeks rest.

[mcs]

ROK surely won't get a game unless he announces during the week he is going to retire. Then they might think about it.

We all have admired the wonderful role ROK has played for the club, but I doubt we will be giving out a freebie to him next week if its likely he will go running around somewhere else next year!

We are not going to go helter skelter resting players like Matt80 suggests, but I would not be surprised to see a couple of our guys given a chance to rest up. Maybe K Jack, given his ongoing problems this year might get a week to rest up. Will be interesting to see what we do at the selection table.

[GordonS]

its gonna be a tough selection this week. biggs absolutely deserves another game after negating griffen and mitchell did himself no harm in retaining his spot (personally, i've never seen a player who extracts the ball from the bottom of packs and fires out perfect handpasses as well as mitchell). towers, despite a decent game, is probably the most likely to be dropped and there was a surplus of backman in the team, so maybe shaw (seeing as he had a very quiet game). kennedy and mcglynn have to come back in and longmire loves reid, so someone will have to be hard done by

[Captain]

Amazed that people are suggesting to leave Reid out again!

ROK can stay in the reserves. Good service but move on with dignity like the great LRT did.

In: McGlynn, Kennedy, Reid
Out: Laidler, Towers, Biggs

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Shaw would have to want a decent game against the Tigers to keep his place. Otherwise would easily swap him with any one of Laidler, Towers or Biggs.

[Xie Shan]

If LRT didn't get a farewell game against St Kilda then I can't see ROK getting one against the Tigers.

[bodgie]

For mine Reid has been pretty much in the Jessie White camp all year, well last year too, kinda drop-able with the twin towers firing at the moment. Next year may be a different thing if Goodes doesn't scrub up or maybe should be groomed to replace Richards eventually.

[grarmy]

The notion of someone getting a guernsey based on anything but the game plan horrifies me. It would be obscene to rob one of the deserving youngsters of a shot against the Tigers because of 'sentiment'.