Official team for Round 2 vs Pies

[Gracie]

Shame Hardwick cant see past his favorites and kept Balta and gave Ross a run instead of Shatama pantsama Ellis.They probably should have given Stack a go as well instead of Markov.

Yeah, who cares about form when it comes to an incredibly important match 
Why don't we drop your man Short while we're at it and give Ben Miller his first crack at senior footy. After all, he has some height! Maybe he can pinch hit in the ruck.

FFS what is Hardwick doing 

Miller is on the injury list with appendicitis. Out for 2-3 weeks

Maybe we are sending Balta back to school him on Rance's position. Looking longer term maybe?

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Yeah that was sarcasm Gracie me old chum

Good point. R2 isn't the be all end all.

[torch]

Who is 2nd Ruck?

[Gracie]

Yeah that was sarcasm Gracie me old chum

Good point. R2 isn't the be all end all.

Ah I should have looked who you were replying to...

[RedanTiger]

Weird changes but it wouldn’t have been done without heaps of thought.  Will back the coaching team here.

Think they brought in Markov/Ellis for the extra run which we could have used last week.

Further to that, to me it was very noticable that Collingwood were exhausted by the end of the game against Geelong.
Maybe it IS horses for courses but it seems a big gamble.

[Andyy]

Not happy re: Balta but let's be honest, their forward line isn't that tall and playing Balta vs Grundy at his current state > he'd get completely smashed and wouldn't be good for much other than looking semi-tall. I like the kid but Grundy is a genuine A grade big man. Nank is good, Balta is just an athletic kid two inches too short to be a genuine ruck option.

Midfielders need to lift and we probably have to accept we will lose the ruck battle.

Hopefully Balta gets 15 games this year IMO but I don't mind him being spared vs Grundy this early...

[Diocletian]

Balta doesn't strike me as the sort of player that needs to be "spared" anything....