Changes for Round 5: Swans vs GWS

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  • Captain
    Captain of the Side
    • Feb 2004
    • 3602

    Originally posted by Mark26
    Gray has just been named as our emergency for the seniors (Kayo TV). Does that mean that Stephens is playing and someone has been omitted late?
    He was always listed as an emergency

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    • Mark26
      Senior Player
      • Jan 2017
      • 1535

      Originally posted by Captain
      He was always listed as an emergency
      Thanks for clarifying. It's strange that he would play half a game of footy in the reserves imo, especially if he's called on to play on.

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      • Captain
        Captain of the Side
        • Feb 2004
        • 3602

        Originally posted by Mark26
        Thanks for clarifying. It's strange that he would play half a game of footy in the reserves imo, especially if he's called on to play on.
        That's probably in case we have an injury between now and game time. Should that unlikely event happen, I would assume Stephens comes in and Gray would be the sub.

        This doesn't mean Gray is next in line after Stephens but more that they don't want one of the others only playing half a game.

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        • Mark26
          Senior Player
          • Jan 2017
          • 1535

          Originally posted by Captain
          That's probably in case we have an injury between now and game time. Should that unlikely event happen, I would assume Stephens comes in and Gray would be the sub.

          This doesn't mean Gray is next in line after Stephens but more that they don't want one of the others only playing half a game.
          I thought Gray looked pretty ordinary in the first half of our ressies game. I would have others in front of him.

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          • Ralph Dawg
            Senior Player
            • Apr 2018
            • 1729

            Originally posted by Mark26
            I thought Gray looked pretty ordinary in the first half of our ressies game. I would have others in front of him.
            Definitely agree. Even the top ups like Morrison, Cordell, Bartholomaeus and A Gulden have looked a level above Gray. Wonder what has happened to him? He was pretty handy at Port.

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            • bloodspirit
              Clubman
              • Apr 2015
              • 4448

              I reckon we might have a late out with Stephens coming in and Gray becoming the medical sub.
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              • Captain
                Captain of the Side
                • Feb 2004
                • 3602

                Originally posted by Mark26
                I thought Gray looked pretty ordinary in the first half of our ressies game. I would have others in front of him.
                The point is he won’t be needed. Why stop someone like Rowbottom or Ling playing a full game?

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                • Aprilbr
                  Senior Player
                  • Oct 2016
                  • 1803

                  AFL website is saying no late changes for either side and Stephens is our Medical Sub.

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                  • Mel_C
                    Veterans List
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 4470

                    Oh dear Melican!

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                    • Legs Akimbo
                      Grand Poobah
                      • Apr 2005
                      • 2809

                      Melican is a liability at the moment
                      He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

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                      • Foreign Legion
                        Senior Player
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 3379

                        They are just stepping around our attempts at tackles or breaking the tackles at will.

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                        • The Runner
                          Regular in the Side
                          • May 2017
                          • 718

                          A lot of senior blokes not contributing at all this quarter so far. Papley, Parker, Kennedy, Florent, Lloyd yet yet to have any impact

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                          • mcs
                            Travelling Swannie!!
                            • Jul 2007
                            • 8177

                            Slow start but ground into it and decent late. Hickey needs to just keep running mummy around the ground - he will be gassed by the 3rd term at this rate.

                            Tackles started to stick towards the end too which helped as early it was very poor all around.
                            "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                            • The Runner
                              Regular in the Side
                              • May 2017
                              • 718

                              How good is having a dominant ruck

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                              • Foreign Legion
                                Senior Player
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 3379

                                I used to like Melican but there were two tackles in 30 seconds they he could not hold on much smaller men - not good enough.

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