I would say we need to win minimum 6 of our last 10 games, maybe even 7 because of our woeful percentage. It all starts with a must win game this week against EF. At this stage it’s hard to say for sure who will be back. Looking at the injury list it seems a few will not be available as they are listed as 2 weeks. I’m talking Giblett and Busher here. My possible ins this week would include Rogers, Yeo, Masten, Sinclair, Grey and McInnes. Maybe even Martin as I thought he was unlucky to be dropped.
The list of outs is headed by Matt Taylor who hopefully will be ok long term. By the way did anyone see the incident with Braut that sent Taylor to hospital. Fisher is not listed as injured so he may be right to play.
The following players will struggle to keep their spots depending on the amount of ins this week.
Hitchcock, Browne, J.Clark, Henderson, Hayward, Gray, Steel, Sing and Avery. If Giblett doesn’t play then Sing or Avery will obviously stay in.
If we don’t have the “one week” injured players back, or at least a couple of them, we may struggle. I’m hoping one week from 9 June means exactly that, they will be fit before 19 June. Even if a bit rusty, I’d far rather have Masten, McInnes, Yeo, Grey and Sinclair than Hayward, Gray, Hendo, Browne. We can give Masten, Yeo and Grey some bursts in the middle, plus some time up forward.
Cess, I agree with the players you say are in line to get dropped. I would keep Avery. Good intercept mark, decent pace and a similar size to Taylor. If we want a second ruck option, Steel may keep his place, especially with fine weather forecast. McPartland should be back, and should play midfield, rather than forward.
Yes, I agree. We need at least 6 wins from last 10 games but I believe that hiding that Subi gave us will come back to haunt us.
It is a difficult challenge before us. Ideally we need 7 wins and even then I don’t think any of our wins will be decisive enough to boost our poor percentage.
We must start with a good win vs the Sharks at home this Saturday. After that we have SF away, WP at home and Subi away.
If we cannot win 3 of those four games it will be all but over IMO. The remaining games are EP, once at home and once away, then we have Swans away, WCE at home, Claremont at home and finish with Peel away.
A tough run.
Smokey I think the games that will come back to haunt us are the two early home games against Swans and Peel two games we should have won.
For sure the Subi result was disgraceful one goal for an entire game of league footy is not good enough and it would take almost a season to get that percentage back.
[quote=“KCEF post=207606 userid=2509”]Are you saying there could be 7-9 changes!!! And a heap off injury- that is playing with fire! Why would Yeo need 3 in the Reserves???
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I’d suggest an easy Perth victory here as well. All your guys coming back and EF without Schoenfeld, Leggett, Murdock, Chalmers, Strnadica, O’Reilly. Easy pickings
Not sure what you guys are talking about. A team that loses by 100 points rarely come out the following game and win. Guys coming back from injury are never 100%. You simply can’t have more than 1 or 2 coming back. Rogers is different.
KCEF is right, we have to play most, if not all, of the 7 players who should be available. These are experienced, quality players. Further, they are replacing players who really aren’t quite up to it. I acknowledge some of them did a decent job against SF and WP, but we can’t turn up with the same team that lost so badly to Subi. The 7 players who have been named by Cess as being likely to get dropped collected a combined 56 disposals against Subi. An average of 8 per player. That might be ok with forwards and backs, but 5 of those guys were midfielders. Add to that the fact that Fisher and Taylor were injured and collected only 10 touches between them and it’s easy to see why we lost so badly.
I just can’t see how the guys in line to return could do any worse than that, even if underdone. Plus, it is such an important game. Lose this one and we need to win 6/9 to play finals. If SD beat WP, it would kill off any chance we might have to finish 3rd or 4th, and we would be battling with WP and EF for 5th. Win and we are one game off third with a 2 game buffer on EF and Peel.