What a possible late September team looks like.

Sir Alan of Didak · Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Location: Pascoe Vale South

B. Maynard Moore Langdon
HB. Crisp Howe Aish
C. Phillips Sier Mayne
HF. Sidebottom Mihocek Treloar
F. Stephenson Cox De Goey

Rucks: Grundy, Pendlebury, Adams

Inter: Hoskin-Elliot, Varcoe, Greenwood, Thomas

Emerg: Appleby, Madgen, Wills

Surplus: Murphy, Oxley, Daicos

Insurance: Goldsack

TAKE THE EQUIVALENT OF DUNNE, ELLIOT, SCHARENBERG, WELLS AND REID OUT OF ANY SIDE AND WE'D SMASH 'EM...YET THIS SIDE CAN MOST CERTAINLY BEAT BITCHMOND!

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

Yep, that's a Premiership team alright.

HOT_PIES · Joined: 03 Aug 2018

Yep we might get there by the Prelim

Does Goldsack come in for Greenwood if we don't need a tagger? Can't see who else to swap him for??? If Moore doesn't get up then, he would be in his position.

Brown26 · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:19 am

I like it - in reality one of WHE or Thomas starts and one of the mids will start on the bench for rotations but that's nit picking, it's a good team. If we don't get Moore back, it's a little short down back with Madgen there but it's still a good team.

- Ben

Sir Alan of Didak · Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Location: Pascoe Vale South

Tannin · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:30 am

Moore has played in 7 games. We won one of them, One. Out of seven. Six losses. Moore can't stay on the park. Pick someone else. Anyone else. Pick someone who won't spend most of the game in the rooms or on the back seat of the bench wearing a tracksuit.

Of our 14 wins, Moore has played in one.

Out of our 7 losses, Moore has played in 6.

Whatever you might say about Crocker or Blair (never mind the various better players we have available), at least they are a fair chance to be out on the MCG for the whole game.

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Goldsack has always been a player who takes a long, long time to get up to speed. Whenever he first returns from injury, he fumbles horribly. Little by little, he improves, one game at a time. He doesn't start playing at his best until he has put in 6 or 8 games in a row. He has always been like that, over his entire career, especially early. We can't afford a Fumblesack at full back. Better to trust the kids. The kids have got us this far. Stay with them.

MightyMagpie · Joined: 04 Jun 2013 Location: WA

So long as they are all smiling at the end of the game I'm less worried about who is in it. There will be limited choice and I expect the match committee to lean more towards experience (where they have a choice) for finals games.

MatthewBoydFanClub · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood

I wouldn't want to take a chance on Moore going into a grand final with a question mark hanging over his hamstrings. And if we make a grand final and Murphy is fit I would play Murphy no matter who's available. He's in the same position now that Blair was in 2010.

Abdul The Bull · Joined: 02 Aug 2017

Doc63 · Joined: 06 May 2004 Location: Newport

At this point in time, I would be really worried about Moore's ability to get through a whole game, especially one as intense as a final. Can you imagine the fallout if he broke down again in a final?

Not worth the risk. I'm a Moore fan, and I hope he stays, but I think we should just get him right for Round 1 next season.

Sir Alan of Didak · Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Location: Pascoe Vale South

I think the battle for that full back post is very, very tight. But at the end of the day, Moore is on 5 times the money Madgen (a Category B Rookie) is on, with more natural talent. He can also be thrown in the ruck or up forward if Grundy or Cox do down early. If J Roo kicks 5 and we lose by 1-12 points, how will you feel knowing we had a $700,000-$800,000 player in Moore available and didn't pick him? Similarly, if Asthbury is blanketing Mihocek and J.Roo is getting hold of Moore, we have the option of switching them. Whereas Madgen's only position really, is key back. For better or for worse, if Moore's fit...Moore plays.

SwansWay · Joined: 13 May 2015

Sir Alan of Didak · Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Location: Pascoe Vale South

Look, I really like Madgen and he's next in. If Howe, Langdon or Moore miss...he plays. If Grundy, Cox or Mihocek miss...he plays (with Moore going forward).

Johnno75 · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Location: Wantirna

I can only see Howe, Treloar (if he recovers) and maybe Murray breaking back in.

Moore has been only been sidelined 2 weeks so far with his hammy, it will be only be a 4 week recover when we play our first final and history shows that Darcy takes a lot longer to recover from hammies than the conventional 4 weeks.

SwansWay · Joined: 13 May 2015