With McGovern back & Marchbank fit can we play Marchbank as a genuine tall wingman

Have a look at his junior review

https://www.afl.com.au/news/446447/25-d ... -marchbank

"Because of his size (193cm/85kg) and ability to move across the ground, some clubs view him as a tall midfielder at the next level. With his ball handling, smarts and strong marking, you can't pigeonhole Marchbank into one spot"

Was just about to ask the same thing.
Can Marchy play wing?

B: Saad Young Marchbank
HB: McGovern Weitering Docherty
R: Pittonet Hewett Cerra
C: Walsh Cripps Cottrell
HF: Fisher McKay Motlop
F: Curnow Silvagni Durdin

I: Newman Kennedy De Koning Stocker

IN: Marchbank McGovern Pittonet
OUT Hayes (susp.) Plowman Newnes

I’d say that’s our absolute best defensive group… possibly our best team for the year?

BV made a comment about Geel playing their hand and backing themselves to not have other teams 'better it'

Agree

I am not going to debate all the stats that tell us Geel have been the best performed side lately BUT my gut feel is that they have peaked early

I may be in the minority but I refuse to accept the fact Geel won just because they're more matured, well drilled and overall more skillful...I freaking well knew that before the game...I didn't need a loss to confirm it or use it as an excuse

Prior to the game, I believed that if brought something between average and our best, it would be a close game that could go either way

We were deplorable, and I'm not including plays where Geel pressured us...we were deplorable all over the ground, including the coaches box with or without pressure

Our forwards, apart from Charlie were insipid
Our defenders couldn't adjust to any moves involving taking Weitering out of the game and rattled themselves
Our mids continue to be a problem and were soundly beaten by theirs...was it effort, set ups, poor disposal coming out of defence or going I50
Our gameplan reduced the G to kardinia Park...rarely transitioned on the 45 and widening the ground

Geelong have peaked.

99Prelim I'm sorry but I disagree. You yourself identified that we sucked in just about every respect. I think it'll be really hard to turn all those things around. Effort can be changed overnight but structural issues can't and I think if we play them again in Sept (and even that is a stretch IMO, I mean we are likely to be knocked out in the first week based off recent form) chances are we will still see many of the structural problems we saw last weekend. It takes time to bed in game plans. So it takes time to adjust. I hope I'm wrong though.

You don't need to apologise for disagreeing

I'm actually quite bullish about how we "come to the party" come finals...Will we win?, got NFI...but there's a gut feeling in me that whoever we play, the game will look more like the Freo (2nd time) game than the Geel game

Really confident that we will be switched on

It's where Voss will earn his salary...he knows what a finals mindset looks, feels and acts like...BRING IT ON

The Geelong game was supposedly a taste of finals for the team. They did really well. Not. Here's hoping it was all a charade to fool all the other teams in contention.