B: Dylan Grimes - Michael Hurley - Chris Newman HB: Nick Malceski - Ben Griffiths - Courtenay Dempsey C: Bachar Houli - Jarryd Blair - Kane Cornes HF: Jimmy Toumpas - John Butcher - Nick Kommer F: Shannon Byrnes - Kurt Tippett - Patrick Karnezis R: Robbie Warnock - Dane Swan - Luke Shuey INT: Tom Sheridan - Matt Kreuzer - Kane Lucas Sub: Liam Jones Instructions: - Cornes tag Beams - Sub Jones on for worst ruck/tall forward at 3QT - Play Kreuzer more, mainly as a fwd and spend some time in the ruck - Have Kommer lock down on the best HBF (Rioli if he's there) Injured: - Merrett - Trengrove - Lewis - Foley
Native Tongues Round 5 FB Sean Dempster - James Frawley - Jared Rivers HB Cyril Rioli - Harry Taylor - Taylor Duryea C Mitch Wallis - James Kelly - Ryan Bastinac HF Shane Edwards - Jonathon Brown - Jimmy Bartel FF Jack Gunston - Jesse White - Michael Walters R Mitch Clark - Dion Prestia - Dayne Beams Int Liam Picken - Jackson Thurlow - Jake Stringer Sub Jordan Schroder Out: Morris (inj), Rohan (inj), M. Brown, Vardy In: J. Brown, Frawley, Thurlow, Schroder Beams to a forward pocket if hard tag is killing him Liam Picken to med-hard tag the best performing "elite" midfielder of the first quarter, change onto another player if they begin to run a muck Rioli to play semi-loose in defence, if its not working (due to bad play or tag) swap him with Jimmy Bartel to a HFF Move Rioli into the middle if x factor needed Sean Dempster to lock down any opposition small forward looking too dangerous Sub Jordan Schroder on with half of the 3rd quarter left, for the worst forward or midfielder on the day Left out: Shaun McKernan Josh Walker Jack Hannath Brent Renouf Sam Shaw Jono O'Rourke Mitch Brown Nathan Vardy Injury list: Steven Morris (1 week) Gary Rohan (1 week) Shannon Hurn (4 weeks)
HT Update Mousey 49 Theo 33 Key battles: Swan v Picken: Swan well on top with 18 touches at the half. Picken 6 and a goal. Kornes v Beams: Kornes on top with 8 touches, Beams has 10 Taylor v Butcher: Taylor BOG atm with 13 touches and 8 marks. Butcher 6 touches, no goals. Frawley v Tippett: Tippett on points here. 11 touches and a goal v Frawley's 5 touches Hurley v White: Hurley here, has 5 touches to White's scoreless 9 Grimes v Gunston: Grimes here, Gunston scoreless from 5 touches Griffiths v Brown: Griffiths here, has 7 touches while Brown has a goal from 8 touches. Warnock v Clark: Warnock has 21 hitouts to Clark's 11 but only 8 touches to Clark's 14. Split the points. Forwards who have actually won their battle: Komner v Rioli: Rioli 6 touches at the half. Komner 13. Rioli moving fwd now
Q3 update Theo: 3.6 Mousey: 0.0 Theo leads by 8 going into the last. Bartel racked it up with 11 touches in defence but Rioli still was scoreless. He'll spend some time in the middle trying to work out where his shit is in the last. Schroder will come on for Stringer who's racked up a solid 11 dream team points. Prestia, Beams and Kelly each had 13 touches that term but just couldn't translate to the scoreboard. Swan, Tippett and Kornes had 10 each.
Sounds like the real Rioli. He'll probably do a couple of things in the last quarter to win the game.
Game ends that way. Mousey dominated the last but poor decisions cost him. Bartel got the hitout to advantage from a bounce at the top of the square and missed the shot, Beams dribble kicked from 25 out and rolled it out of bounds - both early in the qtr. At one stage there was a handball chain of 10-15 between the defensive 50 and the square from mousey's midfielders before they spilled it.
Threw Harry Taylor forward with 5 minutes left and put Clark back and White into the Ruck. He'd been plucking em all day so was worth a try but to no avail. 3 touches in those 5 mins but didn't hit a target with any.