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Quote from: Gointocarlton – on March 13, 2026, 07:04:02 pm

I had the wrong Hollands out, E not O
For some reason, I thought Newman was suspended but its been brought to my attention he is available so he needs to come in also.

Newey’s suspension is up but he has only played limited minutes in two VFL practice games.  I suspect that he will be underdone.

I fear Moir is going to struggle under our faster game style, he seems best suited to the older stoppage / marking game style where he could be the 3rd man up in the contest.

To persist he really needs to make better use of his ambidextrous capabilities, if anything he seems to have gone backwards in that regard.

I fear Moir is going to struggle under our faster game style, he seems best suited to the older stoppage / marking game style where he could be the 3rd man up in the contest.

To persist he really needs to make better use of his ambidextrous capabilities, if anything he seems to have gone backwards in that regard.

I know the AFL hate us, but the scheduling of the next few weeks is seriously diabolical.
[1] Rd #2 Bye. Then an extra long wait before our next game when we really need game time into our players.
[2] vs Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon - not bad in itself, but then we have 2 short weeks in a row, Can't they schedule us for a Saturday? Or a Friday night?
[3] Good Friday against North
[4] Thursday night against Collingwood

Do other teams get screwed around like this?

Enough rant for the moment. After our bye, we play Melbourne at 15:15 on a Sunday (29th March).
I have no idea how good Melbourne will be, but they are going to miss their stars eventually.
Gawn is too good for our rucks. I'm not sure what we can do about that.

i agree add more RUN  RUN doesnt matter Gawny always beats our ruck , for F.....k S....e can our defenders or when we go forward do not kick the ball straight to MAXY

I recall Gawn speaking post match about the challenge of facing DeKoning and Pittonet and the physical effort it took.
St Kilda were behind the eight ball in that department yesterday once Marshall went into the concussion protocols.

We'll need two rucks against him
The question for us...O'Keefe or Reidy.

Quote from: Lods – on Today at 08:49:18 am

I recall Gawn speaking post match about the challenge of facing DeKoning and Pittonet and the physical effort it took.
St Kilda were behind the eight ball in that department yesterday once Marshall went into the concussion protocols.

We'll need two rucks against him
The question for us...O'Keefe or Reidy.

Put 2 players against any 1 player and they will find it difficult.

THe other side of that coin is that you have less players to play on other players....and thats where the damage gets done.

We've had many a debate about our chances this season and you've tried to convince me we'll be ok because of the spread of talent we got in vs losing elite talent.
This is the same argument but coming from the opposite direction. Forget about trying to cover the elite Gawn and use your spread of talent to win other areas of the ground.....and thus the game.

Rucks are overated.
Gawn is elite.
Gawn vs 1 ruck, he might get 30 touches and kick 2 goals.
Gawn vs 2 rucks, he might get 20 touches and kick 1 goal.

Is it worth adding an extra player to save 10 touches and a goal?
Do we go down a midfield rotation as a result? A midfielder that might get you 20 touches and a goal themselves.....as well as ease the load on the other midfielders, allowing them to benefit as well.

Now, more than ever, our team can afford to play 2 'ruck types' given one of them is basically our FF.
But even then, the output of HOK (or Reidy) in that role is not really seeing us get much of a benefit.

Stick with 1 ruck, and run them off their feet.
.....or at least limit the damage we do to ourselves when we fall in a hole after half time unable to run anymore.