dow would replace walsh, yeah?


this is the exact kind of game that makes or breaks dow. Stepping in for our best mid in a game we have to win in front of 80k+

he has to get plenty of the ball and be clean. up til this point in his career he hasn't been able to at afl level - he's bottled it.

Regular poster on BF saying likely only Cripps gets up this week, do you have any knowledge that would contradict this ? please say you do lol

I was told Cerra is fine. Time will tell

Getting Round 3 2001 vibes about this game.

May the spirit of Murray Vance be with us!!!

Not really
Cripps would come in as #1 mid
Cerra #2 if fit
Hewett next
Then maybe Dow depending on roles for guys like Doc, Cunners, Ed etc

No love for Simon Fletcher?

So was I.

B. Marchbank Weitering Newman
H/B Kemp McGovern Saad
C. Docherty Cripps Acres
H/F Cuningham Martin Hollands
F. Cottrell Charlie TDK
R. Pitto Hewett Cerra
I/C Cincotta Fogarty Motlop (Sounds like he might come up, if not Owies) Dow

Marchbank 29 possessions and 10 marks in the VFL gives him the spot over Cowan. Cowan is young and has a future but he's a deer in the headlights at the moment. we need cool, considered decisions out of the back half and he's not there yet. He gets the ball and blasts it. There a time for that but not consistently.
Pitto's 16 disposals, 8 tackles, 8 clearances earns him a recall. We need TDK to gives us a physical target up forward or Charlie will be swamped by Murphy/Moore.

Young, Cowan and Honey go out.

i don't know about any of that, but dow steps into walsh's role. extraction and gut running and clean use. he's not a bull like cripps, hewitt, or kennedy.

tbf, down the stretch last year in those tight, must-win games marchbank was bottling it and making more costly mistakes than anyone in our backline.

i'd sacrifice Doc and put him in the boyd role, and move ollie into the doc role.

having that mobility & run in the backline has been the biggest contributor (outside of Walsh's form) to our win streak. marchbank imo can only replace one of kemp or gov.

cowan can man-mark a player, but can't do anything else at this stage of his career so we need to replace him.

He’s not a gut runner either.

How many here are going to the game?
I got tickets just before they sold out.
Not expecting to win but hopefully they have a real go and you never know.

Sorry Braithwaite but tif I can’t agree with you summation of the last couple rounds in 2022.

We were in front till the last 30 secs of that game. March bank and the whole team played fantastic. No way did we lose because of ant defender, especially Marchbank. I don’t think you know what Marchbank brings to the game. He is quicker than you think and great skills .

Nevertheless if we pick on form Marchbank looked fantastic last week in the VFL, and Gov wasn’t good. Both could play a role vs Pies.