he's the key to carlton and take him out of it they don't look so flash.
should we double-team him?
who are the candidates?
ball? baker? blake? goddard?
i might have said gilbert if he'd been able to back up his debut season form. remember him catching (an admittedly injury-hampered) judd last season and slinging him to ground like a sack of spuds.
but gilbert is probably a long way off that sort of role going on his 2008 form. he has the attributes ... pace, strength, endurance ... but hasn't the confidence atm.
thoughts?
who will get judd?
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I reckon we need to tag Murphy and Squibs. Keep them out of the game and we should win. They're getting a lot of enthusiasm from there youngsters and it's contagious. Curb there enthusiasm
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judd and stevens are the ones we need to stop
if baker gets through the match bring him into play on judd and play joey as a run with on stevens. Back harvey, dal and hayes to beat their youngsters.
if baker gets through the match bring him into play on judd and play joey as a run with on stevens. Back harvey, dal and hayes to beat their youngsters.
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McQ would be a risk, I hope they are not grooming him to be a run with player cos we have two of them already in Bakes and Attard.
However they may be grooming him to know where the ball goes and where to be to get it but I think it would be carnage.
Hayes should just go one on one with him but if not Eddy has the tank but too green.
Goddard would love the challenge.
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However they may be grooming him to know where the ball goes and where to be to get it but I think it would be carnage.
Hayes should just go one on one with him but if not Eddy has the tank but too green.
Goddard would love the challenge.
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I think several players will be mindfull of Judd during the game. Baker; if fit would be an obvious choice as he has done well in the past. He couldn't do it on his own though through lack of match fitness, but he has a great ability to ruffle his feathers. I would do a 3 way rotation tag of Baker, Ball and Dal (good instructive lesson for Dal).
We have to be mindful of their other great midfielders (tanking rewards) of Gibbs & Murphy but hopefully our forward line will be able to exploite their obvious backline weakness.
We have to be mindful of their other great midfielders (tanking rewards) of Gibbs & Murphy but hopefully our forward line will be able to exploite their obvious backline weakness.
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While I'll be surprised if it's the view taken by the selectors, IMO if Baker's not fit enough, we don't have anyone capable of tagging Judd out of his clearance work... Fisher's job on him was fine early, but Judd was in much dodgier fitness himself for that game.
I'd be looking at Ball to go head to head with Judd, Dal/Goddard on Stevens, and expect Hayes to be able to give the edge as a result over whoever else is in the middle. From there I'd adapt as the game develops, but we should be able to handle Carlton's mids, which is why I'm fairly confidant of this game.
As for what actually happens, I'll throw a guess that we give Mini the tag job, but I'll gladly admit that while I suspect we will see a tag I haven't got a clue what we'll do in this dept.
I'd be looking at Ball to go head to head with Judd, Dal/Goddard on Stevens, and expect Hayes to be able to give the edge as a result over whoever else is in the middle. From there I'd adapt as the game develops, but we should be able to handle Carlton's mids, which is why I'm fairly confidant of this game.
As for what actually happens, I'll throw a guess that we give Mini the tag job, but I'll gladly admit that while I suspect we will see a tag I haven't got a clue what we'll do in this dept.
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I personally would not be unhappy if Blake got the job on Judd, he has the tank to go with him and the size and body strength to worry him and "test" him if need be.Raven wrote:I'd take a guess and say Blake will be on Judd.
We do have some other options such as Joey, Mini, Geary and mabey even BJ (as someone else suggested) but for mine Blake would be first up. Personally I would like to see Baker play 1 more week at Casey, in such an important game I would be hesitant to risk him.
As for Murphy and Gibbs, Judd is the measuring stick of their side IMHO and if we limit or shut him out of the game their younger players will be put under a lot of pressure to perform and with the midfield we have they might be hard pressed to win the ball if their captain and biggest star is blanketed.
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IMO they will rotate fisher and MQr on him. Murphy's dispopsal is not damaging enough to warrant a tag yet.
Our mids should out muscle theirs. Depending on the conditions, i'd be surprised if we didn't rip their hearts out in this game.
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Our mids should out muscle theirs. Depending on the conditions, i'd be surprised if we didn't rip their hearts out in this game.
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