I wouldn't drop Cunners, he may not get a lot of it but his quick, clean hands get us out of tight spots time and again. In what promises to be a dour low scoring struggle, his moments of class could be telling. Also I don't like the idea of bringing in two players who've been out for ages. If I did make an unforced change it'd be for Hollands

Motlop absolutely has to play. With Harry and Martin out we need more goal kickers. Harry has 2nd most goals for the Season, Martin is 5th and Motlop 4th. Don't think we should leave out 3 of our top 5 goal kickers.

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100% motlop has to start.

we will be playing fast through the middle and looking for charlie and sos/ whoever else to bring the ball to the deck. Dees are vulnerable to that.

Martin got downgraded to one week. Was always going to happen. No way that could be graded high impact. What an absolute waste of everyones time.

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Think we can get over Melbourne without him but we'll def. need him for the Gabba.

People here want more goal kicking power .

Try this for goal kicking AND speed.

Out: Harry - injured; Martin -susp; Pittonet - dropped.

IN: JSOS to FF & covers Harry; Dow in to cover Cripps who moves to high HF.

This will give us an equal to or better forward line to last week.

TDK rucks and has either JSOS or Cripps for a chopout.

To replace Pittonet and as sub 2 of Boyd; Kennedy; Motlop.

Having both JSOS and Cripps in the forward line will take loads of pressure off Charlie.

With Dow in it lessens the impact of Cripps leaving the midfield.

Without Pittonet we are both faster and more unpredictable

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I wouldn’t drop Cuningham either - he’s the only senior player on our list capable of performing Jack Martin’s role.

Cuningham really needs to bring it this week - all chips in, we don’t need one of his one goal invisible cameos - come on Cunners!!!!!

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There's no way we're gonna drop Pitto with Harry already out, especially coming up against Gawn.

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Agree. We're going to need plenty of minutes from TDK in the forward line.

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With Martin out, i now think Hollands needs to come in for run and Cottrell moves to the Martin role.

Do we change the balance and go Motlop and Hollands in for Mckay and Martin?

I think we should (Sorry SOJ)

Sub: Dow

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

No way would I want to see Cripps with banged up ribs in the ruck.

I do wonder what Cripps injury actually is. If it was broken ribs, surely they would be healing by now, what 4-5wks on? Maybe its like Lonergan’s kidney injury but surely then he wouldn’t be out there?


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rib cartilage takes around 6 weeks and sometimes longer to get right. often hurts more than fractured ribs too.

With the exception of Motlop who was Sub.
Whoever you bring in hasn't played for 3 weeks at least

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The difference is guys returning from injury have been out longer and not training at full capacity for a portion of the time

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Both teams are banged up and have key outs.

It's going to be a war of attrition out there. Will come down to one or two flashes of brilliance or mistakes you'd think.

I had bruised ribs after being shoved into a goal post, took weeks to be able to extend my arms without pain.

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downgrade to one week seems fair to me. was unintentional and only mildly careless. problem is if they let it off players could start “accidentally on purpose” throwing a heavy arm at shoulder of the player with their head down at glancing strike shoulder to smack them in the chops. couldn’t see how it would get thrown out completely, unfortunately.

was Vossy tempting fate by saying how tough Martins tackling was the week prior and how opposition really feel it? oh well it’s done.

and AFL write up Harry even though he’s not out of the woods. how many times does a Blues player get pumped up in the media this year to play a shit game that week? (not that Harry was playing shit, but those two misses were momentum brakes) quite a few times.


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