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This should be a good contest.  We got the job done in the preseason scratchy but both teams were missing a few.  Stainsby out through suspension but you'd think Haydn Kennedy will be an in based on 27 possessions in the ressies last week.  No sign of Max Walters, Branden Matera, Nick Martin, Aaron Bremen but maybe Johny Narkle will get a nod although I can't see any of the league from last week being omitted. 

Hopefully it’s a good game. Why hasn’t Walters been playing, BC? Under-rated player.

Yes...I'm not sure what is wrong with Walters mate as he didn't play in any scratchies either.

As predicted Kennedy in and Walters named but also in the ressies as well along with Reid and Nick Martin.   You'd think our interchange will be the first 4 named as below.

FF 34 Jordan FARAONE 14 Ryan BORCHET 13 Liam HICKMOTT
HF 10 Lewis UPTON 18 Ben SOKOL 19 Nick MENEGOLA
C 6 Rowen POWELL 1 Leigh KITCHIN 17 Lachlan DELAHUNTY
HB 3 Hayden KENNEDY 21 Jordan LOCKYER 5 Kaidyn FULLGRABE
FB 35 Drew ROHDE 8 Angus LITHERLAND 36 Aaron HEAL

FOLLOWERS
27 Lewis Putt
7 Harrison MARSH
12 Gregory CLARK

INTERCHANGE
25 Michael BRAUT
56 Isaac CLINCH
29 Koby FULLGRABE
26 Chad Harris
33 Bailey MATERA
16 Jacob MILLER
23 Ben REID
9 Max WALTERS

No Heal, Lockyer, Stainsby, Brandon Matera, Max Walters, Nick Martin...no worries!!! A good game of footy where ascendancy shifted throughout but Subi was a bit more efficient with its ball use and had better targets up forward as evidenced by our 11 possessions per scoring shot to their 25. Also our tackling pressure was terrific. Kitch was superb in a beaten midfield with Harry Marsh winning the battle of the brothers. Dela good, Greg Clark serviceable, Socks and Borchet presenting up forward. With Heal and Lockyer withdrawals our inexperienced backline did well although East Freo's delivery into the forward 50 wasn't great. A pretty good standard game with both sides having a red hot crack. Interesting that the bulk of scoring was at the Marmion Street end so maybe the breeze was a bit stronger at ground level than it seemed in the stands. With Subi 2 points up at 3/4 time and kicking with it in the last, I was pretty confident we'd get over the line but didn't do ourselves any favours kicking 5.8. A good win and after speaking to Max and Heal after the game, I think we'll see Max in the seniors next week which will help our mids but Heal is still 2 weeks away.

Concur BC. Thought Clarke marked well. Ditto delahunty and Sokol. Borchet was a nearly case all day. Minor Matera popped up a few times. Putty  again competed well. 

Like last week, thought we ran over the top of the the opposition. East Freo couldn't get back and defend in the last. 

Matera did some really good things especially in the 4th, his kicking was immaculate. I liked the way Gus played as a forward in the 4th, probably moved there because of his elbow injury but he really gave us something

Pretty hard tough affair, we started slowly again, EF were all over us winning the centre breaks and we were out marked all over the place, Their big blokes particularly 29 I think took a swag of good contested marks, despite being well beaten at the centre Marsh and Kitch were working really hard. It all changes around in the second with 4 goals to Zip, we worked much harder on the spread and kept the footy away from their big blokes and played on at all opportunities. Forwards were working harder and creating more space. Third qtr was pretty dower footy, EF closed the game up and it got pretty physical and we went back to bombing the ball so their talls took control again and they won the qtr well, 4 goals to 2 to make it a 2 point game. As BC said the Marmion St - South end was very much the scoring end and so it proved as we ran over a tired EF team who seemed to lose the plot a bit with a series of undisciplined acts that ended with their #9 being booked for a fairly low blow on Chad Harris. Chad and few other Subi boys were getting into some EF players heads and they didn't deal with it well resulting in a few frees and 50's, but they did look fried. Another sign that the Subi group are very fit again. 5.8 in the last was not a great return for effort, that 33 point margin could well have been closer to 50++. our last 6 scoring shots were all behinds including 2 posters. That being said EF were very good for large parts of the first 3 qtrs, winning the first and 3rd qtrs but could not maintain that pressure considtently.

Good result given the outs, Maxy Walters only had 11 touches and a goal in the 2's but will be better for the run, may have been on limited minutes.

Massive test next week against a very good and very pacy Joondy team up on their sand patch, hard to gauge their win v an Eagles outfit thats more interested in team roles and game plan practice than winning games but WP are always a 3-4 goal better team up their and Keitel kicked another bag of 6. Frustrating seeing Lockyer and Heal on the sidelines, I understand heal is a couple of weeks away but dont know what Locks situation is, will need him to go with Keitel and we need some more pace in the mids as they have one of the better pacier mids groups going around. Maybe Braut might take on Keitel, he's a very strong bloke, has pace and is very good both sides, will also need Kennedy to do a lockdown on Knott who is lightening around the goals. Hope it's a fine day as it should be a very open fast affair with both sides skills on display.