Could have dropped up to 10 players all out of form and no one would have batted an eyelid if each of them happened to be dropped.
10 was never going to happen but only three changes and hardly addressing short comings.
Balta whatever end he plays was always going to happen. Defense he comes in for grimes, forward then he replaces Mansell adding height.
Either way he gives us flexability and options to change things if it is going wrong.
Prestia for Dow. if fit does help our midfield. But only Prestia!!!!where the hell is a big body like McAuliffe that we are so badly lacking.
People growling about him going straight in but we had to do something about the bashing in the midfield.Plus there still are not a lot of other options.
Graham Give me McAuliffe instead. What does Graham offer? slow, not a lot of ball, few clearances and not a lot of contested ball.
He will have a dip i suppose more than can be said for others who have been selected.Make him the sub if we must.
Ryan for Naismith its a no brainer. Back up ruck but importantly another tall option forward.
Coulthard high forward for badly out of form Campbell.
Cumberland for mansell, Campbell or Rioli do something any thing in an attempt to improve scoring.
Smith for Short when are they ever going to open their eyes
Trezise for McIntosh or Banks how can we keep picking players performing so poorly.
Vlastuin - Young - Broad
Brown - Miller - Smith#
Trezise#- Martin - Rioli
Nankervis - McAuliffe# - Prestia#
Coulthard# - Balta# - Bolton
Ryan# - Lefau - Cumberland#.
Baker - Pickett - Ralphsmith - Sonsie.
Thats 7 changes and how can you argue about any of them?
Revamped forward line with a taller structure and actually doing something different with smalls.
Inclusion of Ryan also gives us ruck cover and Nankervis a decent break thru out.
Midfield at least has some bigger bodies and there are plenty of rotations on the bench.
If dusty plays he needs to be a big part of midfield rotations.
Trezise to a wing this kid can play and we need to get games into him.
Rioli to the other wing, it aint rocket science it then solves one wing problem and allows a kid like Smith a game in his natural position. actually rewarding real consistency at vfl.
Ralphsmith is on the bench to provide run and can play there as well.If we had picked McAuliffe and Sonsie then they would have needed to stop messing about these kids and play them midfield with good game time.Thats where they are putting the runs on the baord in the vfl.
