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Will be weakened a bit because of taking extra emergencies to Perth .

A reasonable conjecture, as we have NOT played all of our emergencies in the VFL once yet. One or 2 to go West would be almost certain, possibly all 3. However, there will be a few guys back; Silvagni, most probably Walker, also a good chance of Everitt getting up. Wood was NOT mentioned in dispatches as being injured, so must also be highly probable to play.
On the other hand, Foster may well end up in the Development game, as his numbers have not been great and we now have something vaguely like a functional forward line in the VFL.

A functional forward line? This is a Carlton team you are talking about here.

VAGUELY like a functional forward line. More vague than anything else, but with our tall forwards actually kicking goals it cant be TOO bad.
That said, we need more from the small and mid forwards and more scoring from the midfielders (like the good teams actually do). But it appeared to work better than the forward line in seniors has been (not an impossible task by any means).

Foster ended up in defence, but that was because he didn't fit into the forward half and Jamo didn't play. If Jamo actually plays, then Foster at CHB is superfluous.
Of the defenders, White was the most impressive. If he gets promoted, there still isn't really a spot for Foster. He hasn't shown the ability to read the ball to take on a mid sized forward.

Foster continues to work hard on areas of his game as a defender and he had a couple of impressive one-on-one contests: now it’s about finding consistency

Foster....gone at years end.....

Northern Blues vs. Port Melbourne
Saturday April 23            
Preston City Oval at 2.00pm       

Northern Blues

B: 58. Z Tuohy 27. M Jamison 26. M Dick
HB: 7. D Buckley 11. K McGuinness 43. S White
C: 65. D Viojo 1. T Wilson 76. J Tutt
HF: 49. D Armfield 20. A Everitt 56. A Gallucci
F: 48. K Jaksch 14. L Jones 36. C Wood
R: 15. M Kreuzer 60. D Cuningham 32. N Graham
Int: 24. T Roos 4. S Russell 18. D Gorringe 2. J Silvagni 6. G Strachan 34. J Glass-Mccasker 37. T Jones 67. C Smith 29. B Casley 10. T Totevski 31. J Foster 80. M Korcheck

23P: 23. H Kerbatieh

This side will look very different on the day, but the return of Silvagni and Everitt will open up scoring opportunities (I hope). Probably 2 of the emergencies will go to Perth, maybe all 3. Now way all 3 will play.

Port Melbourne
B: 21. L Cook 31. B Mihocek 12. J Tynan
HB: 5. S Lange 23. H Sandilands 7. S Crocker
C: 27. D Mascitti 10. T Pinwill 3. L Tynan
HF: 29. C Cain 2. K Haretuku 60. D Iaccarino
F: 32. B Pearson 40. S Clarke 8. D Van Unen
R: 36. L Waddell 11. M Golby 4. T O'Sullivan
Int: 1. M Rivett 28. J Scipione 41. R Hogan 17. A Urban 35. G Dickson 44. M Hayes 26. N Dixon 9. B Hogan 

23P: 48. J Halsall

I actually don't know Port's team all that well, but they will probably try to be fairly physical against our kids. A few weeks back they had the extra poise and experience, and we had a very young side playing. Hopefully we can turn that result around.