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Good to see Lockyer back in but otherwise should remain unchanged from 2 weeks ago.  Also, Hayden, Kentfield and Schofield all named in the ressies leaving only Braut missing from our best 22 due to injury.

FB 8 Angus DEWAR 2 Galen SAVIGNI 21 Jordan LOCKYER
HB 11 Marlin CORBETT 31 Henry BERENGER 28 Connor FARAONE
C 15 Wil HICKMOTT 22 Luke FOLEY 40 Ky FRANCESCHINI
HF 53 Benjamin GOLDING 9 Leigh KITCHIN 16 Joshua ROBBINS
FF 10 Jack MAYO 18 Ben SOKOL 14 Ryan BORCHET

FOLLOWERS 
1 Greg CLARK 
41 Kody EATON 
13 Liam HICKMOTT

INTERCHANGE
39 Jaimon ALONE
32 Jacob EVITT
35 Drew ROHDE
5 Jordan SNADDEN
 

Should soon have our best 22 available and would expect we will get better in the second half of the season. Important to win this one to keep in touch with the top 3 sides. Still lacking in the ruck department and our forward line delivery has generally been atrocious so far! 

Jjim its got me beat that after picking Peelmantle apart with smart footy, keeping possession, moving the ball quickly and hitting short targets which took their strong marking backs out of the game, we have reverted to the same hopelessly inefficient long bombing out of the backline and into the forwards. We see Gus, who is a great player and a wonderful long kick, but when we bring the ball in after a point that long bomb seems to be the only plan, you saw how Claremont time and again looked for the short 20 - 30 pass from the kick-in which creates the overlap and the loose man where we were always kicking to a contest and congestion. If we do that against the Gummies it will get ugly. It will be hard enough coping with Teakle and co at the stoppages without continually giving the ball up with mindless long bombs.

SS...there's quite a few game day issues I have with Wardman. For instance, we had all the momentum in the last quarter against Claremont only for Prescott to put Rogers as a spare down back. At one stage he had the most possessions on the ground during the last quarter by positioning himself to take intercept marks and providing a link out of our forward 50.

What did Wardman do? Nothing...he didn't man him up with our spare or even get a forward to stand with him to at least provide a 1 on 2 scenario. Then there's the transition piece into our F50 which as you say, has been abysmal for a couple of years now plus our kick to handball ratio isn't great either as we tend to over use handball and turn it over.

The club must surely look at Wardman's tenure if we have another indifferent year.

BC, actually 4 changes from 2 weeks ago:

IN:      Lockyer, Sokol, Snadden, Evitt
OUT:  Sullivan, Henderson, Morgan, Stergiou

Evitt.......just turned 20, 179cm, 80kg. had 18 touches and a goal in last reserves match.....from Kingsway JFC


 

Cheers Ocker. Yes, I made that comment about the same team before the interchange had been reduced down to 4.

I like the blooding of these young blokes as you never know what diamonds in the rough will turn up as long as they give them a decent run at it but on the other hand, I'm not sure why they persevere with Snadden as he hasn't really fired a shot since coming over from EF.

I think Evitt was out all last season with a knee, good work to get back and crack the senior side already. Snadden yes well you have to reward good form in the ressies I guess, let’s hope he starts to do the same in the seniors because generally he has been playing like Jane whilst looking like Tarzan. Wardman not the sharpest tool in the shed he should have just put one of the 4 blokes that are out this week and were playing shit on Rogers and told him to stick to him like glue and we probably would have won

On the plus side Evitt has lightening hands and seems to be a very good prospect. Gee East freo were good. Haven't seen footy like that in the wafl for while. 

That's about where things are at JL. They are a 10+ goal better side than us, and most other sides. I thought we had a good crack for the most part, just simply out gunned

Probably worth throwing Clark into the ruck tbh. He seems to know what he's doing there from the brief glimpse he gave today, he out muscled the bigger cripps and the aggressive janson. Of course it was Teakle who did all of the damage but Clark never went against him. Clark is 195 and 93kg. Eaton 195 86kg. Eaton gets his hands to it but never to our advantage and does fa else around the ground. Clark seems to know how to use his body and is super fit and mobile