Next Weeks Team

[One Eyed Saint]

B - Gwilt / Blake / Gilbert
HB - Baker / Fisher / J Smith
C - Jones / Dal / Ray
HF - Henye / BJ / Schneider
F - Steven / Kosi / Milne
R - Gardiner / Hayes / Joey
IC - Armo / Geary / Eddy / Mac


In - Stevens, Eddy, J Smith
Out - Gram (Inj), Mcq (susp), Zac (susp)

[#1GILL]

B - Gwilt / Blake / Gilbert
HB - Baker / Fisher / J Smith
C - Jones / Dal / Ray
HF - Henye / BJ / Schneider
F - Steven / Kosi / Milne
R - Gardiner / Hayes / Joey
IC - Armo / Geary / Eddy / Mac


In - Stevens, Eddy, J Smith
Out - Gram (Inj), Mcq (susp), Zac (susp)

Is J Smith ready?
Would love to think A. Smith would get a run, but he may currently be injured. I'm not sure. But he has good pace and a great kick from what I saw in the preseason.

[One Eyed Saint]

J Smith probably not ready for full games but play him for 10-15 mins per quarter.

If he is doing this at Sandy and pulling up OK, we may as well let him do the same in the 1's and see how he goes

I was going to suggest promoting Walsh but from what I understand we can't promote a player from rookie list until round 11.

All reports from Sandy indicate he is doing all the things that Zac is not.

[SainterK]

You think they might bring in Peake for Subi?

[kaos theory]

B - Gwilt / Blake / Gilbert
HB - Baker / Fisher / J Smith
C - Jones / Dal / Ray
HF - Henye / BJ / Schneider
F - Steven / Kosi / Milne
R - Gardiner / Hayes / Joey
IC - Armo / Geary / Eddy / Mac


In - Stevens, Eddy, J Smith
Out - Gram (Inj), Mcq (susp), Zac (susp)

j smith, what a great idea...lets also bring in rooey, he has at least had a light jog around the oval.

steven for mini, yes I agree with that. Don't know if zac will be out just yet...

[One Eyed Saint]

Peake might be an option but if his form is average at Sandy than we'd be taking a punt he'd step up on familiar territory.

[plugger66]

Smith isnt going to play. Is struggling to play 60% for Sandy.

[battye]

steven for mini, yes I agree with that. Don't know if zac will be out just yet...

Elbow to the head, looked bad.

[SainterK]

Peake might be an option but if his form is average at Sandy than we'd be taking a punt he'd step up on familiar territory.

We have to take a punt on someone.

[saint66au]

No way will we send Jessie Smith to the wide open spaces of Subi with 2 games for Sandy as his match fitness for the last 2 years.

Peake was poor for Sandy from all reports.

Assuming no suspensions..

In: Steven, Eddy
Out: Gram, McQualter

Schneider lucky but theres seriously noone else at Sandy whos demanding a game

[battye]

Peake might be an option but if his form is average at Sandy than we'd be taking a punt he'd step up on familiar territory.

We have to take a punt on someone.

Agreed. Something has to give, the trend right now is not all that great.

[SainterK]

No way will we send Jessie Smith to the wide open spaces of Subi with 2 games for Sandy as his match fitness for the last 2 years.

Peake was poor for Sandy from all reports.

Assuming no suspensions..

In: Steven, Eddy
Out: Gram, McQualter

Schneider lucky but theres seriously noone else at Sandy whos demanding a game

I think it's safe to assume Zac is gone, for a little while

[One Eyed Saint]

kaos theory - do we wait until round 15 when we are 7-8 to give this guy a go?

If he has the talent everybody talks about then i would have thought we are a better side with him in than out..

If the alternative is Raph Clarke who would you choose?

[#1GILL]

kaos theory - do we wait until round 15 when we are 7-8 to give this guy a go?

If he has the talent everybody talks about then i would have thought we are a better side with him in than out..

If the alternative is Raph Clarke who would you choose?

At this stage...Raph.

[Con Gorozidis]

B - Gwilt / Blake / Gilbert
HB - Baker / Fisher / J Smith
C - Jones / Dal / Ray
HF - Henye / BJ / Schneider
F - Steven / Kosi / Milne
R - Gardiner / Hayes / Joey
IC - Armo / Geary / Eddy / Mac


In - Stevens, Eddy, J Smith
Out - Gram (Inj), Mcq (susp), Zac (susp)

im thinking gaertner or will johnson comes in for zac?
or stanley comes in and sam goes back to full back?

but yeah id love to se jesse smith out their before the year is out.

steven and eddy are worse than mcqualter and gram. by some way.
that means we are even weaker next week.

[plugger66]

B - Gwilt / Blake / Gilbert
HB - Baker / Fisher / J Smith
C - Jones / Dal / Ray
HF - Henye / BJ / Schneider
F - Steven / Kosi / Milne
R - Gardiner / Hayes / Joey
IC - Armo / Geary / Eddy / Mac


In - Stevens, Eddy, J Smith
Out - Gram (Inj), Mcq (susp), Zac (susp)

im thinking gaertner or will johnson comes in for zac?
or stanley comes in and sam goes back to full back?

but yeah id love to se jesse smith out their before the year is out.

steven and eddy are worse than mcqualter and gram. by some way.
that means we are even weaker next week.

Well at least you gave Steven 3 games. Amazed he hasnt had a BOG by then. Steven is going to be a very good player. Dont think otherwise.

[kaos theory]

kaos theory - do we wait until round 15 when we are 7-8 to give this guy a go?

If he has the talent everybody talks about then i would have thought we are a better side with him in than out..

If the alternative is Raph Clarke who would you choose?

Its called match fitness, and smith has none. He hasn't played for two yrs, execpt for about 10mins a qtr in two reserve games. How anyone can be expected to play afl footy on that is beyond me.

[One Eyed Saint]

If Clarke has to play he should play as a winger / half forward to maxmise run and creativity.

[Calais]

Out - Dawson, Gram, Mcqualter.
In - Raph, Steven , Peake

[bobmurray]

Gaertner is a rookie...how is he going to be selected..

[mad saint guy]

B: Gwilt, Blake, Baker
HB: Clarke, Fisher, Gilbert
C: Montagna, Hayes, Ray
HF: McQualter, Goddard, Peake
F: Milne, Koschitzke, Schneider

Foll: Gardiner, Dal Santo, Jones
Int: Armitage, Geary, Heyne, McEvoy

Out: Dawson (susp), Gram (inj)
IN: Clarke, Peake

Steven in on the off-chance that McQualter is suspended or dropped

[matrix]

B - hayes/hayes/hayes
HB - hayes/hayes/hayes
C - hayes/hayes/hayes
HF - hayes/hayes/hayes
F - hayes/hayes/hayes
R - hayes/hayes/hayes
IC -hayes/hayes/hayes

In - hayes/hayes/hayes

that should just about do it i reckon

[Liam_G]

I was going to suggest promoting Walsh but from what I understand we can't promote a player from rookie list until round 11.

Just to clarify, we CAN promote a rookie now if we wanted too, as Miles is on the LTI. But obviously the club doesn't think any of them are currently up to scratch, hence why we have not yet promoted any.

[rexy]

There will be changes, no doubt, would be very surprised if Mini doesnt go for at least 1 and Gram is obviously not going to pull up, even if he seems ok they will rest him for at least 1 week IMO, must be OP related I would think?

Biggest change needs to be in beleif in ourselves and the game plan, many times yesterday I thought we hesitated when we had the ball and cost ourselves scoring opportunities, mini at chf a couple of times, schneider running through the middle on the overlap, opportunities to centre the ball off the half back flank and set up a thrust forward. Players are doubting their skills and doubting the plan, all obviously revolves around the lack of Roo to finish it off but if we dont get over that we wont improve. Even our best player yesterday in Hayes had a glaring example where running through the guts in the second he could have kicked to Kosi leading hard from the square 2 times before he finally did, when he did Kosi was only 15 metres in front of him? If it was Roo he just would have drilled it 40-50 and we would have had a mark or a contested ball 20 out from goal instead of 60.

Wouldnt be surprised if Walsh gets promoted during the week!

[jonesy]

B: Gwilt, Blake, Baker
HB: Clarke, Fisher, Gilbert
C: Montagna, Hayes, Ray
HF: McQualter, Goddard, Peake
F: Milne, Koschitzke, Schneider

Foll: Gardiner, Dal Santo, Jones
Int: Armitage, Geary, Heyne, McEvoy

Out: Dawson (susp), Gram (inj)
IN: Clarke, Peake

Steven in on the off-chance that McQualter is suspended or dropped

This is about right. Horses for courses..and whilst Clarke and Peake far from demand selection,we will need run and carry on Subiaco from somewhere,therefore these 2 are certainties.

Would also consider dumping BigMac and giving Stanley a go. Bigmac will lumber around the wide open spaces over there and contribute nothing.Stanley will be able to use his pace over there and at least provide a contest against NicNat...he might not be demanding selection either,but surely with his speed he will offer more than McEvoy?