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No changes other than Snadden dropped which was predictable.  Interesting to see if Schofield gets up.  I can't see a hammy coming good after a one week lay off but you never know I guess.   I think we'll get over the line but only just.  Subi by 2 goals.

Update.  Schofield not selected.

FB 21 Jordan LOCKYER 8 Angus DEWAR 2 Galen Savigni
25 Michael BRAUT 17 Kyle STAINSBY 35 Drew ROHDE
C 15 Wil HICKMOTT 13 Liam HICKMOTT 10 Jack MAYO
HF 16 Joshua ROBBINS 14 Ryan BORCHET 53 Benjamin GOLDING
FF 9 Max WALTERS 18 Ben SOKOL 24 Luker Kentfield

FOLLOWERS
20 Zac CLARKE
1 Leigh KITCHIN
6 Stefan GIRO

INTERCHANGE
39 Jaimon ALONE
36 Aaron HEAL
37 Rylie MORGAN
11 Koltyn Tholstrup

BC, a mate of mine spoke to Taj after last weeks game and he said he was likely to play, but if we had beaten Freo, he would have had another week off, given the do or die situation, we need to roll the dice. He may not play as many minutes in the mids, maybe on a wing or HF flank where his elite delivery can help the forwards.

Forecast for tomorrow is fine and 22 light winds early then stronger in the early arvo then lightening off later.

Reserves were up for the challenge today. The good news is that vanirsen, Hitchcock and ash looked ready to step up next week if required. I'm not confident we can beat Claremont. 

Really good win today as I thought we'd just about blown it at 3/4 time due to inaccuracy in front of goals. The last quarter effort was huge and showed we can run games out which we haven't done for the last few weeks.

For mine, the win was anchored by our backline. Savigni, Dewar, Heal, Locks, Stains were all superb. To restrict Claremont to 9 scoring shots from 33 inside 50s was critical and kept us with our noses in front even though we struggled to kick goals.

I'm not sure if there's a genuine dislike for Jye Bolton as I thought we overdid the physical stuff but I guess it worked as he was restricted to 13 possessions. Special mentions for Tholstrup and Alone who were very effective through the middle and Borchet worked his way in as the game went on and great to see Soks hit the scoreboard. We're still bombing it in far too much and need to do more work on entering forward 50.

Giro and Liam Hickmott had fantastic games and both were right up there for BOG. FART next week which I think we can win as we probably should have beaten them last week but we had a bad 3rd quarter which cost us dearly. No injuries or reports that I'm aware of so could go in unchanged if Schofield doesn't get up.

Terrific win and congrats to all involved but there's still some hurdles to get over. Go Subi.

well done, maroons

Brilliant effort, but what can we do about the accuracy this late into the season? It seemed to me Borch & Sokol  were getting in each others way. In the last they went more one up & one down. Golding hopefully will kick 4.0 next outing instead of 0.4. Add Schofield’s goal kicking and we might straighten up. Need a big lead early on then try to hold on.
The defenders were superb, Savigni is next level and playing with confidence.
 

Spot on regarding Savigni Frothy. At 21 years of age, surely he's being looked at by AFL scouts. I'd hate to lose him but reckon he deserves a crack at the next level.

Been saying that about Savigni for a year at least. A bit short perhaps . But what a goer. 

Alone is the pace we need. He can improve further, imo. 
Borchett has to compete in the air like he did in the last. That was great. He and sokal are getting outmarked way too often. It's no point kicking high to sokal. Hes too short. It has to be in front of him. That leaves kenterfield to compete in the air, but he's not getting to the right spots. Do we use him deeper?  Clark can play a role there, as well. We've got to get that sorted. Maybe we need to go to Golding more. He's a better contested mark. Something has to change. 

Claremont showed us how to kick goals in the third with pace and run. I thought we were going to get run over again. 

What a turn around in the last!
On to Mandurah. 
 

Great to see some free kicks paid against Claremont today after last weeks absolute disgrace on the WAFL.  Will be with you all the way Subi and good luck.  Hope I’m welcomed in amongst you at the next two games to give you some support. 

ROYAL 2019 wrote:

Great to see some free kicks paid against Claremont today after last weeks absolute disgrace on the WAFL.  Will be with you all the way Subi and good luck.  Hope I’m welcomed in amongst you at the next two games to give you some support. 

I watched your game on tv last week Royal and agree, you were robbed by some very lopsided umpiring.  They must have got taken to task during the week as I thought we got a pretty good rub from them today for the most part which is unusual for Subi.