Changes for Round 23 V Hawks

[ugg]

In: Grundy
Out: Fox

Emg: Fox, Dawson, Towers, Cameron

Hawks
In: Henderson, Mirra, Roughead
Out: Frawley (inj), Glass, Pittonet

[Markwebbos]

A lot of tall emergencies there... A late out definitely on the cards

[Markwebbos]

Horse on Swans TV less than convincing about Buddy's fitness: "We are going to give him every chance to play and knowing Lance he's certainly determined to play. At the moment he's tracking OK" In other words he's not yet proved his fitness.

[liz]

When we played them last year they targeted Lloyd. From memory, they bashed him up in Q1, he got concussion and took no further part in the game.

They didn't target him. He got an accidental foot* to the head in a tackle. It should have been a free to Lloyd because he was tackled without the ball but it was still an accident that he got knocked out.

* or it might have been a knee - lower body part either way!

[ugg]

A lot of tall emergencies there... A late out definitely on the cards

We will get a big hint from the number of emergencies that play NEAFL tomorrow afternoon.

[longmile]

No dawson

[Foreign Legion]

Critical Out for the Hawks - Stevic!

[Scottee]

They didn't target him. He got an accidental foot to the head in a tackle. It should have been a free to Lloyd because he was tackled without the ball but it was still an accident that he got knocked out.

It was Mitchell that slung him too wasn't it?

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[Foreign Legion]

I have to say - their backline looks average at best - if we can't beat them this week we will get punted out of the finals quickly.

[AB Swannie]

We were always going to name Buddy. I’m not convinced that he will play.

[liz]

I am disappointed not to see Dawson come back in. He seems to have suffered the same fate as COR - play a few decent to good games, pick up a minor injury, and then get relegated. In the case of COR one could argue that he might have lost his spot anyway once McVeigh was ready to resume, but there's not a closely equivalent player who has replaced Dawson. Given they named him last week and only withdrew him at the last minute (presumably to see if he could get over his ailment) I had taken this to mean the coaches had him in their best currently available 22.

I guess it is Robinson who is holding Dawson out of the side, and I acknowledge that it would be rough to omit Robbo after he was credited with controlling Whitfield's influence last week. But I am not sure that the Hawks have a single playmaker in their backline who influences their ball movement quite as much as Whitfield does for the Giants (other than Sicily, who is still injured - and I think Dawson would be a better defensive match up for Sicily if he were playing, given his aerial prowess). And I think Dawson offers more offensively with his marking and kicking skills.


If Buddy doesn't come up, I presume Dawson will come into the side. He can't replace Buddy (stating the bleeding obvious) but can at least provide some kind of fairly mobile marking option in the forward line).

[liz]

It was Mitchell that slung him too wasn't it?

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Don't remember. There were a lot of bodies around the ball, which is the only defence for the umpires not paying him a free kick (ie that they didn't see it properly). Don't think I ever registered who the offending Hawk was.

[Industrial Fan]

It was Mitchell

[Hotpotato]

Julie Bishop isn’t an emergency ?

[MattW]

Saved me the trouble, Liz. I'm also bummed Dawson isn't playing.

I also agree with Mark that it sounds from Longmire's interview that Buddy's selection is provisional, pending fitness.