Blue Vain wrote:
bluechampion wrote:
Hmm.
Marchbank - Casboult - Newman
Stocker - Weitering - Thomas
Cunningham - SPS - Fisher
Walsh - C. Curnow - McGovern
E. Curnow - McKay - Gibbons
Kreuzer - Cripps - Dow
Setterfield - Silvagni - Murphy - ??
The VFL bye came at a bad time.
O'Brien? Hasn't had a chance to regain his spot. Provides run, perhaps?
Kennedy? Extra mid support?
Schumacher? Half-back replacement. Knows the system.
Pickett. Extra run?
You'll require a 7th defender for rotations. Schumacher is probably the better option.
Otherwise push Jack into the defensive rotation. Then reshuffle the front half.
Our midfield has been a strength. Cripps, Dow, Fisher, Cuningham, Murphy, Setterfield, Walsh, SPS all had centre square stints against the Pies.
Given Levi will need to play 2nd ruck from defence, and given that GWS have some size in attack, I reckon the 7th defender needs to be able to play tall-ish to give us flexibility with our rotations. Goddard has been in reasonable form in the VFL and knows the system. But I would prefer Jack be used as that 7th defender who can also play other roles (mid/forward) as required, and then bring in O’Brien to give us a bit more outside run off the bench.
The net result is we lose a little size for extra run - ie:
In: Newman & O’Brien
Out: Plowman & Williamson
Schumacher doesn’t look ready to me. Although if it comes down to a choice between he & Garlett (eg. if Newman doesn’t come up), I would take Schumacher. That says more about my opinion of Garlett as a defender than it does anything else.