The emergencies are David Armitage, Colm Begley, Nick Heyne....
Does that mean we can name more, if there has already been further omissions before we even get there?
Fisher and NDS also!
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I have no idea why some people are so up in arms over this.
We have top spot effetively tied up and now is the perfect chance to give a few key players who arent 100% a rest.
Its thinking long term, rather than risking further injury by playing them.
Unlike Hawthorn we dont have to win this game to determine our season.
We have top spot effetively tied up and now is the perfect chance to give a few key players who arent 100% a rest.
Its thinking long term, rather than risking further injury by playing them.
Unlike Hawthorn we dont have to win this game to determine our season.
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"We are not going to needle players up to play" - or words to that effect.
We will go into the finals in top spot - and no doubt there will be players who are needled up once the real season starts.
But for now we have earned the respite of giving our guys the opportunity to enter the first week of the finals series with most players relatively "niggle" free and not copping jabs - or not having had jabs for a couple of weeks.
We will go into the finals in top spot - and no doubt there will be players who are needled up once the real season starts.
But for now we have earned the respite of giving our guys the opportunity to enter the first week of the finals series with most players relatively "niggle" free and not copping jabs - or not having had jabs for a couple of weeks.
in my eyes, it is effectively the same thing as chipping the ball around and wasting the clock when we have the match won, just on a bigger scale. You may want us to attack hawthorn this week with our best team selected (and for all we know, as suspect as it sounds, we may have had 6 injuries this week), but, when we look at the bigger picture, we are trying to win a premiership, and resting players is the way to go. Would anyone complain if this tactic is successful? Of course not, and all this fuss is irrelevant anyway, the way i see it is that the squad we selected may not be better than hawthorn at its peak, but it is still better than port adelaide, and port made hawthorn look terrible last week. Hawthorn have everything to lose this week, and i think that pressure will get to them. Im still quite confident that we will win, we are 18-0 for a reason.