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"As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk
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We all know how Roos hates taking talls with our first pick (refuses point-blank to do so, in fact). So if all of the 2008 draft hype is correct, there should be some really good talls still available by our 2nd pick.
Which we will probably then use on another midfielder anyway.Comment
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I think we need a few more in and under type players.
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As the buzz builds as to who Bevo will take, i reckon its more likely to be Rioli. Bevo will put the straight jacket on him and lace him up all afternoon. Interesting stat on Bevo - no opponent has picked up more that 10 touches in a match and no opponent has kicked more than 2 goals on him. All this and he can can go forward and score goals. If anyone reckons Bevo isn't one of the best smallish defenders in the comp take a look at Guerra's display of skills. The question is - who is better as a smallish defensive defender in the comp at strangling dangerous small forwards? The stats point to BevoBevo bandwagon driverComment
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Rioli may play a defensive role on Tadhg. Bevan may even play forward.Comment
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Probably and given that Williams is a very disinterested chaser Leo could be like the Energizer battery bunny and just run and run. Jack hopefully will be given Sam Mitchell. Interesting to see how the little man with the short fuse handles Cracker's pressure. It seems like we match up on them really well across the ground. Franklin rates B2 as his toughest opponent.Bevo bandwagon driverComment
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I think Kirk will get Mitchell and Ablett on Hodge. I think Jack will go to Bateman. Will Hawthorn put Sewell on Goodes.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Sewell is unlikely to play. Will be interesting to see who they play on Goodes if Sewell doesn't play.Comment
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Bevan is better played forward right now. As I think we've all come to realise in 2008, confidence is an even bigger issue for him than most footballers. You don't want someone down on confidence mixing it with the Hawthorn attack; but it only takes a couple of marks and kicks up forward and you have your confidence back. As Jarrad McVeigh discovered earlier in the year.
Jack can play BP as a first option on Williams, and if Luke Ablett must be in the starting 18 at all, he can go on the wing.
Even though I'm highly dubious whether Goodes will actually spend more than 2 seconds of the match at CHF, I like the look of him there on a bigger ground like the MCG.
I think starting Malceski on the bench is a good idea. Ask him to go flat-chat for 50-60 minutes and see if he's up to it, rather than looking proppy and uncertain for closer to 100 minutes.
Trusting that B2 will take Franklin, Roughead is I think our biggest individual match-up. (The 2 teams' midfield operate very much as groups, so the individual who's-on-who doesn't matter so much unless there's tagging going on.) Richards is in good form I think, and so give him a go with LRT as a back-up if we get desperate. Whenever we have the choice, Leo is better taking the creative role down back rather than trying to wrastle some gorilla 15cm taller than him.Comment
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Thomas kicked two goals on our other form back flanker and used him as a step ladder as well - Mattner. Bevo was moved onto Thomas because Mattner was well beaten by him in the first quarter. He kicked one gaol on Bevo and his influence faded after the first quarter. He was moved back onto Medhurst after half time after Medhurst looked damgerous. Makes sense to put the best small defender on the oppositions most dangerous players.Bevo bandwagon driverComment
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Bird played on Mitchell in the pre season and towelled him up. Has also been named on the wing to start so maybe he will go to him in rotation with ablettThe edge is not the limit, It's just the starting point...Comment
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