Give Casboult a licence to bust as many packs with his knees as possible, accidentally of course, with a bit of luck, he might accidentally take out Billings, Gresham.... football is a tough business after all.

For interest's sake:

Simpson - Goddard - Marchbank
Thomas - Plowman - Newman
Cunningham - E. Curnow - Lang
Fasolo - C. Curnow - Gibbons
McGovern - Casboult - Garlett
Kreuzer - Kennedy - Cripps

That is our oldest (most physically mature), fit 18 players.

Charlie into the midfield replaced by Kerr up forward. He came as both an inside bull and a forward.

Like the Kangas, the Saints are a team who have an excellent recent record of putting the sword to us at the Depression Dome. With our young mids starting to look tired and our backline unsettled by injuries, I can’t see us winning this unfortunately.

Hopefully Thomas doesn’t get rubbed out, SPS is OK and Cunningham, Jones, Plowman & Simmo are available....

B: Plowman Jones Marchbank
HB: Simmo Weitering Newman
C: Walsh Cripps Thomas
HF: E Curnow McGovern C Curnow
F: Cunningham McKay SOJ

R: Kreuzer Dow Fisher

Inter: Gibbons, Setterfield, SPS, Stocker

In: Cunningham, Jones, Plowman, Simmo
Out: Murphy (inj), Casboult, Macreadie, O’Brien

I would try using Jones as the 2nd ruck from defence, with Marchbank, Weitering or Plowman rolling onto his man. The alternative is to use McGovern or McKay as 2nd ruck; if we go that way, personally I would experiment with McGovern in that role because Harry looks pretty hopeless in the ruck to me at this stage of his career.

Rather than bring in Kennedy, I would like to see the Curnow brothers used more regularly in our centre square rotations. Kennedy and/or Lang might get a game if SPS and/or Thomas are unavailable. It’s hard to see where Kerr fits in unless the MC think SOJ, Harry or Charlie need to be rotated out of the team. Kerr got to lick the ice cream on Saturday but I’m not sure his game translates to AFL success. At the very least, he gives us good KP depth.

Murphy Lob and macreadie out

Cunningham Plowman and Simmo in.

Like the Kangas, the Saints are a team who have an excellent recent record of putting the sword to us at the Depression Dome. With our young mids starting to look tired and our backline unsettled by injuries, I can’t see us winning this unfortunately.

Hopefully Thomas doesn’t get rubbed out, SPS is OK and Cunningham, Jones, Plowman & Simmo are available....

B: Plowman Jones Marchbank
HB: Simmo Weitering Newman
C: Walsh Cripps Thomas
HF: E Curnow McGovern C Curnow
F: Cunningham McKay SOJ

R: Kreuzer Dow Fisher

Inter: Gibbons, Setterfield, SPS, Stocker

In: Cunningham, Jones, Plowman, Simmo
Out: Murphy (inj), Casboult, Macreadie, O’Brien

I would try using Jones as the 2nd ruck from defence, with Marchbank, Weitering or Plowman rolling onto his man. The alternative is to use McGovern or McKay as 2nd ruck; if we go that way, personally I would experiment with McGovern in that role because Harry looks pretty hopeless in the ruck to me at this stage of his career.

Rather than bring in Kennedy, I would like to see the Curnow brothers used more regularly in our centre square rotations. Kennedy and/or Lang might get a game if SPS and/or Thomas are unavailable. It’s hard to see where Kerr fits in unless the MC think SOJ, Harry or Charlie need to be rotated out of the team. Kerr got to lick the ice cream on Saturday but I’m not sure his game translates to AFL success. At the very least, he gives us good KP depth.

I can't see them leaving the field without a victory this week.

Just stay on the ground another quarter to catch their score?

They need to pick a hard team this week, hard players who committed at the team meeting.
StK will be out to bash us, crash us and thrash us.

This is our line in the sand game. If the players are going to kick the coaches out and take charge of the situation, anything less than a 100% effort and a win is not enough. They would have promised each other a win this week. They would have promised tackles, chases, gut running and looking after each other. They would have looked every single one of their team mates in the eye and said,
"I am going to do this for you and I expect you to do it for me."

Win this game and watch the shackles fall away. More wins will come.
Lose it and they are done for the year and BB won't survive the aftermath.