I believe he has sent a PM about that though Bluehammer. Haven't you seen it?

solid team.
Player missing are:
Walker, Murphy, Johnson, Betts, Okeefe, Austin, Armfield, Waite, Houlihan, Wiggins, Tiller

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Who cares about Fev.. He's yesterday's hero... I just want to see us playing back on our true home ground...

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Any reason why O'Keefe and Austin arn't playing ??? Thought it would be the perfect opportunity to play both of them.

I think it's a 26 person team for the actual game (24 playing plus 2 emergencies which swap around). So with 29 in the full squad 3 would be dropped.

It will be interesting to see who is finally dropped from the squad. If they want to proceed through the comp then I can see Davies, Anderson and Ellard being dropped (the 3 weakest players from the squad) but if they are more interested in development and playing around with the squad then I would drop Wiggins, Carazzo and Scotland (we know what all 3 can do and where they would play in the new look line up). I would like to think that Jacobs and Robinson would be subs, with Jacobs subbing for Warnock (a half game is a good work out on Warnock's 1st showing for the Blues) and Robinson subbing for Lucas.

If Fisher plays before Tiller I'll spew up!!

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F 13. Chris Yarran, 23. Lachie Henderson, 38. Jeff Garlett

HF 12. Mitch Robinson, 8. Matthew Kreuzer, 14. Brad Fisher

C 6. Kade Simpson, 7. Brock McLean, 24. Kane Lucas

HB 2. Jordan Russell, 18. Paul Bower, 29. Heath Scotland

FB 45. Aaron Joseph, 40. Michael Jamison, 32. Bret Thornton

R 11. Robert Warnock, 4. Bryce Gibbs, 5. Chris Judd

INT 17. Setanta O’hAilpin, 10. Richard Hadley, 44. Andrew Carrazzo, 22. Shaun Hampson, 46. David Ellard 31. Marcus Davies

EMERG 15. Steven Browne, 16. Shaun Grigg, 26. Joe Anderson, 34. Simon Wiggins, 39. Sam Jacobs

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They coud'nt.....could they?

If Simon Wiggins plays I'll spew up!!!!

Why do we keep persisting with Fisher!??!?!?!

Seriously, what does Ratten see that we ALL don't!??!

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Why are the Blues such a frustrating side!??!?!

Wiggins is in - Gibbins is not playing

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From reading reports of the intraclub and summer training it seems like Fisher has been picked on merit.

I have as many doubts on Fish as a lot of others around here. But equally, he has been a good clubman, he is in the leadership group, he has reportedly worked on a lot of his deficiencies over summer, and he has every right to be picked according to form going into the NAB Cup. Good luck to him I say... and I hope he proves a lot of us doubters wrong!

Missing from the Swans

Bradshaw
Barlow
Mumford
Okeefe - yippee
White
Shaw
Vezpremi


Not much goal scoring ability up front

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Why oh Why is Casboult not playing ?

Surely we can have a look at him.

If I had to have a guess on this one Drewgirl then I would give two main points:

1. He isn't yet fit enough. This was mentioned by Riley after the intraclub. It sounds like he needs a bit of work yet - nothing wrong with that.

2. Ratts has probably devised a forward line that works around Kreuzer, Hammer, Henderson, Waite, and O'Hailpin, and I reckon he wanted to see how it would function with the four fit players in that group before adding any other tall variables.

Donaldson has also had a good preseason according to the reports but he's missed out.

We know what Fisher and Wiggo can do, I think we should be giving all the young guys a taste.

Austin is still recovering from his abdominal operation from the end of last season according to Bigfooty. May not play at all in NAB cup

Weather for Sydney Sat 20/02/2010

Saturday Mostly fine. Sunny periods.
City: Min: 19 Max: 26
West: Min: 16 Max: 29

With 2 subs and 6 on the bench plus 18 on the ground at any one time, CFC is putting out a tallish team versus a smallish Sydney.
Compare the height of the rucks and on ball players.

If around the ground the CFC rucks and on ballers can clear the packs (always a task when you play Sydney) then there will be a clear gap in the scores given the advantage of fast ball delivery to a series of one on one tall target players with small players hoping for a spilled ball.
So the key to this game will be getting your hand on the ball and being able to clear the packs.

What intraclub reports were you reading??

5 minutes of that game and you knew it was same old Fish. He's brought nothing new to the mix. Fish shouldn't have been picked; he got miles in the legs last week and there are better candidates waiting in the wings.

Can the club present an injury list, because there are some young names that have missed out for no apparent reason. Ellard is a borderline selection; we've loaded up on forward options and older fringe midfielders without a thought to rotating our backmen...

Poorly selected squad if we wanted to manage individual workloads.

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20 ways to see the world,
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He's still on a bender.

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Just the ones that were on here Jimmae... obviously yours excepted

Brownes stiff. I thought he showed a fair bit more than Davies.

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