FF: Eddie Betts - Brendan Fevola - Jeff Garlett
HF: Heath Scotland - Setanta O'hAilpin - Andrew Walker
C: Kade Simpson - Bryce Gibbs - Andrew Carrazzo
HB: Ryan Houlihan - Paul Bower - Jordan Russell
FB: Aaron Joseph - Bret Thornton - Dennis Armstrong
RU: Matthew Kreuzer - Marc Murphy - Chris Judd
IC: Shaun Hampson - Simon Wiggins - Nick Stevens - Shaun Grigg
EM: Cameron Cloke - Christopher Yarran - Steven Browne

In: S. Hampson - D. Armstrong - S. Grigg
Out: C. Cloke - R. Hadley (inj) - J. Anderson

Pretty easy selections this week, I'd imagine. If Tex can play in the midfield I'd like to see Yarran get a go, but if Yarran wasn't even in the team this week there is no way he gets played in such an important game.

In:Army, Grigg & Hammer
Out: Hadley, Anderson & Cloke

drop to 7th and have to play Brisbane at the Gabba which I know weve done already this year so........

Who is this Dennis Armstrong of whom you speak?

Ummm...I used to run the 400 in high school and the lactic acid didn't usually hit until the straight, ie. 300m mark. Which is by no means talking myself up as an athlete, just making the point that's usually the mark of when it happens. Ask anyone who runs that distance, it's pretty common.

For mine:

In: Hampson, Armfield, Austin, Grigg
Out: Cloke, Anderson, Hadley (inj), Wiggins

Im with you Jimmae, we need Austin back in there to be that extra tall down back. And Crows might likely play a few down there in Tippet, Hentshel, Burton, Stevens

Grigg is the only logical replacement for Hadley, when he was in his best form he can play that inside midfielder role

Must have Hammer back in so he can jump all over that donkey Sellars face

Grigg is not a Hadley type.. hes pretty outside.. so how can he replace Hadley?

Not much quality in alot of those talls you mentioned.... usually the ball comes in high .. hits the ground and the team with the better ground players take it away.,

There are only 2 real tall forward teams in the eight... one is the Lions.with Brown being the only really big tall... and the other is the Saints.. with Kosi being the BIG for them... Riewoldt leads up the ground...

So why would you just want to hamper the defence's run ?

jimmae

i disagree.

Since we have gone smaller we have knocked off Geelong and Port... and also Melbourne much more convincingly than what we served up prior to that,

Russell Robertson isnt a tall... and JAmar is a ruckman...Austin wouldnt help that either,,,

But the ball comes to ground much more frequently than it gets marked....

So if you can force it to ground you should be able to mop it up and move it foward quickly...

..you do realise though that yer pacing yourself though, through training you've learned how.. ..that's why you don't run the 100m, 200m, and 400m in the same manner.. ..on the footy field if yer chasing it's a flat out sprint, likewise if yer breaking the lines.. ..then factor in all the twisting and turning, handballing, kicking, marking and bumping and the repeat efforts which are evenly staged/spaced out etc etc and comparing simple runs to a footy player in regards to lactic acid build-up isn't a real comparison at all..

jimmae

i disagree.

Since we have gone smaller we have knocked off Geelong and Port... and also Melbourne much more convincingly than what we served up prior to that,

Russell Robertson isnt a tall... and JAmar is a ruckman...Austin wouldnt help that either,,,

But the ball comes to ground much more frequently than it gets marked....

So if you can force it to ground you should be able to mop it up and move it foward quickly...

i cant see brisbane beating sydney at the scg

which means if we lose to the crows

we would play brisbane in melbourne

hopefully bombers lose today to freo

and we beat adelaide would give us a home final against hawks

cos hawks will beat bombers next week