Especially with no Foley, we need all the runners we can get against the crows
I guess the selection panel can see something they call "team balance" with the players they have selected. Therefore what may appear an unexpected change as in Conca being left out could be more a strategic move more so than his apparent poor form. Maybe they have seen something after hours of reviewing videos of the Crows, we can only hope they have the mix right, could get downright ugly but we don't have the worst record at AAMI.
Unfortunately the jokers posing as experts in our MC have nfi Lozza 
Yep those off-field in our MC can take a good hard look at themselves as well. Lack of options really hurt us when we needed to change things up in the 2nd half. With Kingy going down we were stuck with leaving both Miller and Elton on. Only one should have played first of all. I'd still like to know why Conca was dropped?
hmm sort of agree but sort of dont.
what i dont get is why hardwick did nothing. miller gave nothing all day why was rutten allowed to play on a first gamer their biggest strongest best and most experienced defender played on a first gamer and we allowed it to happen.
while we allowed it to happen blokes like shaw and smith just ignored miller and ran of him all day or went and helped talia out.
riewoldt got not only talia but two other defenders all day yet we could not find a free tall forward i really dont get how this can happen and continues to happen.our mids either have no vision or the other talls are not working hard enough. its likely a combination of both.
some options we did have but for what ever reason failed to try them. why did we not send ivan forward i know it would have been a roll of the dice. or why didnt we throw one of the tall defenders forward we had a spare as adelaide only went with tippett and walker. we could then have had ivan play a kick behind the play. we did nothing.
i firmly believe two kpfs is the way to go and have a third tall option with a ruck/forward. ideally vickery would fill the ruck/forward role if he reaches his potential. jack is a ff we need to find a chf and getting a game into elton or playing griffiths or astbury when fit is the right way to go win or lose.
atm vickery is not the answer so why dont we tweak it just a bit play ivan more forward and bring in another ruckman who rotates of the bench. or why not try a genuine ruck/forward despite his form in derickx.
i too would like to know why conca was dropped surely he had a niggle. batchelor i can understand his form has been poor. i know ellis had maybe his quitest game for the yr but i would not drop him unlike some i reckon hes done more than should be expected of a first yr player.
conca and foley would make a huge difference to our mids but that just shows up how thin on the ground we are for them.
finally i think we lost the game in defense just as much poor disposal and decision making rance again got badly beaten i dont know if ive ever seen a player go to ground so much or get caught out of position so much.
