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McInnes for Jones 
Sinclair for Davis
Masten for Edmonds
Grey for Gray for my team them.

DD wrote:

Time For a Flag wrote:

Chess I am taking the players with 1 week next to their names to be unavailable. 

Possible team with remaining 

Cogniglio       Hill          Avery

Davis          Nicholas      Sing

Edmonds     Fisher        Yeo

Rogers         Cary        Hitchcock

Jones          Stubbs     R. Clarke

Followers       Bench            Unlucky
Eyers             McPartland    Steel
Byrne             Colledge        Hayward
Brody Gray    J. Clark           Brown
                      Martin
 
That injury list was 9/06 so I expect McInness, Masten, Grey and Sinclair listed as 1 week to be available

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.

Yeo has missed 12 months of footy.

KCEF wrote:

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????

Thanks DD.

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. 

If they’re fit they play.

Grey, McInnis, Sinclair, Busher, Yeo, Rodgers, McPartland, Masten all fit (anyone missed???) - and you’re not picking them?

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.

This is also a massive game for EF in shaping their season with EP, WART and FART to come after us so I expect them to come out swinging. Matty Taylor is a massive loss. He'd be leading the Butcher Medal at the moment I reckon. Avery stays in for mine and I'd be bringing Grey, Gibba, McInnes and Sinclair straight in along with Rogers and McPartland. 

Can Mossy get them up for this? You'd like to think so given how much is at stake for remaining in the hunt for a finals berth. 

We cannot under any circumstances lose this game.
If we get some back and lose to EF missing a few themselves and at Lathlain we don't deserve to talk finals.
Win that makes 3 of the last 4 as wins gets the season back with a chance.
Roll the dice Gary.