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True enough about Rowe, but it's finding weiters and plowman that is the key to releasing him BACK forward, just a pity that he won't have Levi to team with.

Rowe will have to ruck again this week...probably assisting Cam Wood, was a part time ruckman for Norwood so he
isnt a complete novice...

I loved seeing the emotion from Simmo. This game meant so much. Even Gibbs looked a bit red-eyed when speaking to Mooney after the game.
After jumping around my lounge room I litterally sat on my couch and wept a little bit haha. That was just amazing.
Up until 2013 I hadn't had a number on my Guernsey since number 43 when I was ten. The night before we played Richmond in the final I ironed on the number 6. Absolutely love Simmo. Heart and soul blue bagger!!

From Wiki, re Rowe's time at Norwood:

Kicked 6.1 against Sturt in one game, a few other bags of 4:

http://www.foxsportspulse.com/team_info.cgi?player=Sam%20Rowe&action=PSTATS&pID=190810149&client=1-3289-0-103282-10028550

It's interesting that there has been a lot of discussion on our rebuild and the associated need to get a solid defence into place on which we could then build. This has started in a very promising way with Weitering and Plowman coming in and together with Sam Rowe currently identified as an important member. Jamo remember  has been really struggling

I'm a bit puzzled therefore that we now want to start unraveling and unsettling it by moving Sam elsewhere at the first sight of injuries. As Murph said today, we are currently more concerned with building for the future and playing to and perfecting our system? Surely a major disruption such as this to our defence to cover injuries elsewhere would run counter to that objective?

We need to try and cover our injuries first and foremost from whatever depth we have available in those areas not rob areas where we seem to have established something promising. Sam's exploits at his previous clubs I say are not that important to us atm as we really need him to continue in the role he is currently performing for us. The need we had for him to move on Sun was an emergency one-off rather than something we necessarily want to do on an on going basis.

Bryce Gibbs roars into AFLCPA top 10

AFLCA leaderboard
43 Patrick Dangerfield (Geel) (26)
39 Joel Selwood (Geel) (28)
37 Todd Goldstein (NM)  (28)
37 Jack Viney (Melb)  (22)
36 Tom Lynch (GC)  (23)
34 Luke Parker (Syd)  (23)
32 Rory Sloane (Adel)  (26)
30 Bryce Gibbs (Carl) (27)
30 Dan Hannebery (Syd) )26)
29 Lance Franklin (Syd)  (29)

If our many players playing many roles system is on track we can start either Jaksch or Rowe forward or back, and it shouldn't matter.

That's if we don't need Rowe to ruck.

Big if. Most of what I hear says that it is still very much a WIP.

Rowe may well ultimately HAVE to ruck but as I said we shouldn't be jumping to that solution without looking at other options first. Get creative as BB is so fond of saying. 

Rowe is a lot stronger and a lot more experienced than the last time he was up forward. All that time down back using his body to hold out his opponent and take a simple mark there in the last qtr just came naturally to him. It was like he marked it and then realised what he'd just done.

Only a snapshot but such a positive sign. Weitering, Plowman, Simpson, Docherty, Byrne & Touhy in the backline might look a bit small but leaves Rowe to fill in up forward while Cas is out.

It's interesting that there has been a lot of discussion on our rebuild and the associated need to get a solid defence into place on which we could then build. This has started in a very promising way with Weitering and Plowman coming in and together with Sam Rowe currently identified as an important member. Jamo remember  has been really struggling

I'm a bit puzzled therefore that we now want to start unraveling and unsettling it by moving Sam elsewhere at the first sight of injuries. As Murph said today, we are currently more concerned with building for the future and playing to and perfecting our system? Surely a major disruption such as this to our defence to cover injuries elsewhere would run counter to that objective?

We need to try and cover our injuries first and foremost from whatever depth we have available in those areas not rob areas where we seem to have established something promising. Sam's exploits at his previous clubs I say are not that important to us atm as we really need him to continue in the role he is currently performing for us. The need we had for him to move on Sun was an emergency one-off rather than something we necessarily want to do on an on going basis.