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Why???  He's not ready!!  Play Jones before him or even Everitt that's why they are there.  To allow the kids to develop. He kick one of his goals from a contested mark, the others were gimmies.

How did development boys go?

Cunningham didn't light up the park, I thought Rainbow showed a bit, McKay was ok (lacked a tank to be expected) but he's tall and with some meat on him, he'll be good, the big American was not out of place (kicked a crunch goal) Gowerscwas solid again and should be given a chance of a place becomes available. KJ looked like he belonged this week, so maybe this is his level??

Peter Jackson VFL 2016
Northern Blues   4.3  6.4  8.8  11.11 (77)
Footscray Bulldogs   1.5  3.7  5.9  10.11 (71)

I gather it was pretty windy and one end had the advantage. Still, we were in front all day, except for a moment or 2 in the last quarter. In the circumstances, it was an excellent result!
Just hope the guys at the ground can thaw out before next week's game.

GOALS: L. Jones 3, McKay 3, Jaksch 2, Korcheck, Kerbatieh, Declase.

I think Liam Jones has to get a call up for next week going on this.

DISPOSALS: Whiley 31, Wilson 28, Tutt 28, Dick 24, Everitt 20, Strachan 19.

Good to see Everitt getting something of the ball. He does seem to fire up against the Dogs.

Clen Smith didn't really impress.

Clen Smith didn't really impress.

I'm afraid Clem is definitely not going to be with us next year. I guess he was something of a speculative pick, but we don't seem to do well out of those sort of picks any more.
We need to replace him with a REAL small forward.

If Jones is in it has to be as a 2nd key forward. If he plays as the only one he'll struggle like the others.

I don't think we've done well out of speculative picks ever.

There was a time when we were pretty good at it. Guys like Houlihan and Hammill were excellent late picks. However, since we institutionalized the idea under WH, we lost the knack. We had a decade of failure with that type of pick, especially when our last pick was still in the 30's. I wanted us to get Swallow, who went well after our last pick that year. Any guesses as to who we actually selected? I'll give you a hint: his old man played for a couple of clubs including Richmond.
I could Raso: his pick was very late. Others.....

That sort of ide did not seem to be part of the Silvagni lexicon: we didn't have a live pick later than the 20's, and the one we did have was Jack Silvagni. After a decade of missing out, I could live with that.

Of course he'll play this year. You can bet he'll experience senior footy before the year's out to give him a taste and a bit of experience. At that time of the year it's not going to exactly hurt anything. He'll play against Brisbane or Essendon.

IIRC - In J Waite's first season, he was the only player on the list who did not play a senior game - because he was not ready. That sort of judgement should apply here.

IIRC - In J Waite's first season, he was the only player on the list who did not play a senior game - because he was not ready. That sort of judgement should apply here.