I think it would be a very big mistake to leave Motlop out.

All i can think of is the pretty standard;

In: McKay, Martin
Out: Kennedy, Cuningham

Hollands stays sub.

Guys like Ah Chee would be too much for Motlop (size wise), bigger bodies preferred

Me too, we are very solid defensively and difficult to score against.

Melbourne have a better, tougher midfield than Brisbane and our midfield beat Melbourne's (and Sydney's and Collingwood's earlier)

Don't worry about this GABBA fortress bullshit, we are in this up to our eyeballs.

They have to worry about stopping Walsh, Cerra, Cripps, Docherty, Acres etc etc and countering Weitering, McGovern, Kemp, Marchbank

How do they nullify Saad and Newman

Then we have Curnow, Mckay, Martin, Owies, Motlop they have to stop.

They will forget about Cottrell, Cincotta and Fogarty at their own peril

Then we have those units Pittonet and DeKoning smashing into them and flying over them all game

Just give us the @#$%&! cup !!

We can seriously make the Lions shit themselves. Get out to a lead then remind them it's happening again

You're gonna lose another prelim......

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Totally would. He dominated last time we played them.

I think we need another quick small defender, otherwise Brisbane's small forwards will cut us up again. Reckon it would help both defensively and with rebound. I'd drop Marchbank or Kemp.

But I can't see the MC doing this.

i'm hoping our 8 day rest fills our tank a little!

Agree with this. Cameron, Raynor, Bailey, McCarthy are the biggest threat.


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I think we need another quick small defender, otherwise Brisbane's small forwards will cut us up again. Reckon it would help both defensively and with rebound. I'd drop Marchbank or Kemp.

But I can't see the MC doing this.

Some mind games coming out of Brisbane, but from the footage available it seems highly unlikely Jack Payne will get up.

If he were to miss, coupled with the inclusion of Harry and Martin, that would be a huge boost to our forward line.

i'm hoping our 8 day rest fills our tank a little!

Stating the obvious but we can win if we control the midfield and don't allow easy exits. If we do allow it out of the middle quickly(as per earlier in the year) they will score freely. I have faith this group can win the midfield battle.

Me too.

But, given we are up against:

201cm Daniher,
203cm Hipwood
203cm Oscar ....sneaks into forwardline to swap with Daniher, every now and then, and,
193cm Gunston

That is one extremely tall forward group.

We lack tall defenders to match these KPFs, and only have Weitering as the gorilla minder.

Maybe we need the 4 mobile tall defenders to give us one who can cut across to intercept or spoil. Gov, March and Kemp can run, and do run when its their turn, and that could turn out to be an advantage if they can get the ball to Saad, Chinky and Newman.

Jones wouldve helped, and Young has lost form this year, so maybe we dont have a choice.