this is the 22 id like see us go with.along with how the wb may line up based on their side last week.again i try to pick a side where we have the best chance to go one v one .if our plans break down this is where you end up.
imo its also a side that gives us the greatest flexability if needed. from the mids onballers back it wasnt too hard to pick not to say we dont have problems here. but trying to pick a decent fwd line is hard.there are just so few good options.
fb: Morris 185/83 - Astbury 195/95 - Grimes 193/89
ff: d/haus 178/77 - boyd 200/103 - stringer 192/88
hb: Vlastuin 187/86 - chaplin 195/97 - rance 194/ 96
hf: dickson 184/84 - redpath 194/99 - crameri 190/97
c: mcintosh 192/92 - martin 187/88 - hunt 184/78
c: mc rae 191/83 - m boyd 184/84 - picken 184/83
r: maric 201/102 - cotchin 185/85 - miles 180/80
r: minsob 199/106 - btompelli 192/90 - wallis 185/85
hf: edwards 182/82 - griffiths 200/101 - knights 184/84
hb:johannisen 180/79 - rhead 200/101 - murphy 187/84
ff : lloyd 180/83 - riewoldt 195/91 - gordon 186/89
fb: wood 186/84 - talia 194/93 - morris 190/88
int: ellis - lambert 178/75 - houli 180/83 - petterd 185/85
int: jong 188/89 - hchurch 176/71 - goodes 183/89 - grant 193/83
okay 4 changes and we all know thats not going to happen. the changes anyway are.
astbury for batchelor. nothing against batchelor he had a servicable game last week. but i dont see a good match up for him this week.horses for courses.
knights for deledio. basically a polished medium sized fwd who can go into the midfield mix, for a polished medium sized mid who has spent a lot of his time fwd. best outcome of a bad deal imo.
lambert for grigg. blokes been great he brings that competetive edge that grigg just doesnt have.i dont think shaun had a good game anyway time to reward some good form.
petterd for newman, newmad did what again very little. in fairness though he had limited game time. he is performing what role thats the question. just think petterd will give more and give us much better options either as a fwd or in the middle.
the thinking behind that team
Backline- In Dahlhaus they have a quick ball winning goal sneak, we need a quick accountable defender on him. Sad but true but morris is the only one of his type on the list who can perform this role which is even more puzzling why they insist on playing him fwd. hunt could possibly perform the role but why do away with the run he provided last week. Morris comes back this week for mine.it wont happen though.
I picked Astbury to play on Boyd, Imo Astbury has done well against the taller sized kpfs.
I picked Grimes over Batchelor to play on stringer. Grimes has better closing speed, is imo better on the ground than Batchelor and isnt giving away inches.
Rance to Crameri. Crameri likes to run his opponents around and accumulate possesions. Hes big bodied and dangerous. Rance will run with him and hes big enough to cover him in 1v1 contests. The thing im looking for here is for alex to run off as often as possible work the bugger over and make him accountable. Theres enough talls there to cover and Mcintosh is a big mid who will drop back as well in fact if things go wrong Mcintosh is a defensive option.
Chaplin well hes the concern gave him Redpath hes a good size to take him on and should not get caught out for pace just needs to play accountable and smart.
Lastly Vlastuin gets a similar sized player in dickson i love vlastuin in defense because while he reads the play well, finds plenty of ball, uses it well hes a defense first player your defenders must be able to defend.
Mids - I think the match ups speak for themselves, i do like the idea of both hunt and mcintosh on the wings at last some mids who will work back deep into defense be accountable and have the work rate to rebound. the other mids in the side who will be part of rotations some more than others are ellis, lambert, edwards, knights, houli and petterd. of all their mids the one we cant match up on is bontompelli. mcintosh is a good fit size wise but i dont think he has the onball know how .besides we rob peter to pay for what.
fwds - ideally i would like to have a quick agile third tall type to play but we dont. also thought about hampson mainly to give maric a chop out and keep structure when griffiths goes on ball.
i settled for gordon to do the morris role and i bought in knights/petterd to replace deledio. its the best i could come up with without throwing kids in the deepend.hopefully martin cotchin edwards rotate thru there all game.
the lack of quality and goalkicking power remains a big problem.
anyway just some of my thoughts its not ideal and some may say just plain stupid thats okay by me its just my opinion.
