Changes for Round 9 v Fremantle

[ScottH]

Saturday. 6:30pm.
Late change. IN Towers. OUT Buddy

[dejavoodoo44]

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Keep the comments coming, Stevo.

And I see we have another who'll be celebrating a 2000th post soon perhpas.

I'm torn between replies.

Reply 1: Oh, is it me! I'll be expecting presents.

Reply 2: OMG, what am I doing with my life.

[dejavoodoo44]

Maybe we rushed him back to take advantage of the blocking rule.

Yes, maybe he won't even have to run. Just stand about twenty metres out and throw his arms up.

[Aaron]

To please Clarko--> Umpires :15. Mathew Nicholls,18. Ray Chamberlain, (and 33. Brent Wallace)

[giant]

What a couple of lovely surprises!!

[Meg]

Maybe we rushed him back to take advantage of the blocking rule.

Yee-haw!! Wouldn?t that be extra special. [emoji3][emoji3]

[707]

We've lost it at selection, forward line can't possibly function with Buddy and Ronke!

We missed a bullet with no Stevic adjudicating the new interpretation, Reg would have given away a dozen frees! Good thing is we get to see the new interpretation in action so can see how it will be dealt with. No more blue murder for our backs, but also reckon Rance will no longer be CHB of the century!

[AB Swannie]

How hard is it to predict the team changes each week? No one predicted the backflip on Buddy but I am also really surprised that Towers is one of the guys omitted. He was down a bit last week but he has been really good in all his other games and provides at least an alternative in the ruck. I really liked McCartin's game last week but would think that Towers offers more than him right now.

[Hotpotato]

Buddy back , really ... what a legend !
It?s bizzarre, but I was looking forward to one more week watching the kids go round playing like lunatics without the omnipresence of the superstar.

[wolftone57]

I can't believe they'd play him if there was any chance of the heel getting sore again. Our forward line has been going OK without him - not that we won't be better for having him back in, but it's not exactly panic stations. It's still the midfield that most needs to lift to improve all around performance.

Liz, I think the midfield has become too predictable with Kennedy in there. When Joey is there they rely on him so much. But last week when they put him at CHF we won the midfield because we were unpredictable and the boys were sharing the load. I would like to see him play more forward and then rotate through the mids in a different capacity. By that I mean not being relied on so much and the set ups changing when he is in there so he has a more equal role to the other guys. As we set up now when he is in there he is the guy who storms the HO every time. We need to share that around a bit more and set up Joey not in the same position every time. He needs to be able to rotate around the stoppages with the other guys.

I think that would work better. It would take a lot of pressure off him and the other players would take more responsibility. It would also allow him to have freer movement around the edge of stoppages at times, setting up running players with his strong body and ball use. I thought late in the third and much of the last the young blokes took charge of the centre square and the stoppages around the ground and the figures back that up. We won more stoppages without him in the midfield last week than with him. That is because opponents are putting on such a heavy tag he is literally held out of the contest. When he's not there they can't do that and they don't have a clue what our young mids are going to do. Lovely situation to have.

[Beerman]

How hard is it to predict the team changes each week? No one predicted the backflip on Buddy but I am also really surprised that Towers is one of the guys omitted. He was down a bit last week but he has been really good in all his other games and provides at least an alternative in the ruck. I really liked McCartin's game last week but would think that Towers offers more than him right now.

He was good earlier in the year, but down the past couple of weeks since he came back from his poke in the eye. Still, he won a couple of contests and gave nice hand-offs which led to goals, which is good. Also, with the ball in hand in the dying minute or so, he was going to blaze away and then put it down the line where it went out of bounds, which was a bit of a relief after some of his disasters a couple of years ago.

I'd like to see him get a longer run at it myself, but I can't deny that others offer more at this point.

[mcs]

Very surpised to see Buddy and Hanners back... I hope in particular Hanners is close to full fitness, as he is one of those players that really does struggle when not fully fit.

[CureTheSane]

Awesome timing.
Buddy gets blocked

[jono2707]

Hopefully young McCartin can provide some sort of structure and focus up forward, allowing Buddy more freedom further up the ground. Buddy will be much better off hunting the ball up the ground rather than as a key forward dealing with two or three opponents under our long bombs. If he's fit.

[Blue Sun]

We've lost it at selection, forward line can't possibly function with Buddy and Ronke!

We missed a bullet with no Stevic adjudicating the new interpretation, Reg would have given away a dozen frees! Good thing is we get to see the new interpretation in action so can see how it will be dealt with. No more blue murder for our backs, but also reckon Rance will no longer be CHB of the century!

Rance is untouchable.

Pleasant surprise to see Bud back, though a bit unusual to be excluded due to injury on the Monday then brought back in before the game. You'd think Horse would err on the side of caution with Buddy?