yep

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I hope Essendon* folds.

All this talk play Henderson down back he is better as a key back than forward
Ok why do we have a coaching staff,paid hundreds of thousands dollars,playing him as a forward?
Is this a conspiracy theory?should we ring Mel Gibson,smack Barker in the back of head with a copy of catcher in the rye?
With Henderson's shocking form at the moment Lance Franklin would need to play with a chap stick,he would be licking his lips that hard seeing Lachie come to him

it's basic weight of numbers and our list that's dictating henderson playing forward.

rowe and white cannot play forward to save themselves, but they can be serviceable in defense. jamison is first picked in our backline to take their best forward, so there's your three talls at the back, which frees up henderson to move forward as there's literally nobody else to play as our 2nd forward beside levi.

i think if walker was fit he'd play forward, henderson would go back, and we'd run with a smaller, but more mobile forwardline.

without a doubt henderson is a chb. he can body up a man, but he can also read the play and intercept & break up attacks. other than tuohy (and hendo were he picked there) no one in our defence will read the play and be prepared to back themselves to play off their man.

it's a pretty important role in the modern footy and the zone, having a tall defender who can play his man, and play off him when the situation calls for it. all the good teams have this prototype playing in defense, and henderson could easily make that job his own.


... i'd also like to know where henderson sees himself and where he wants to play. if he see's himself as a forward, maybe the club is letting him play there with the hopes of keeping him happy to re-signing him???

our forward line needs serious work, of which I don't think long term Hendo is the solution ....

however, I think our defence has huge potential, with Hendo as CHB, and considering our year, there is far more worth playing our defence together and developing their game plan, and their ability to understand each other, than there is having Hendo forward.

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Got to love the stare Down by Setanta on Llyod

Hendo staying with us beyond this year?

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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman

even if he doesn't, he presents more trade value as a dominating CHB as opposed to a fumbling CHF

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Got to love the stare Down by Setanta on Llyod

Unless we're purposefully de-valuing him so we have to pay him less to stay

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

Simpson?

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)