Preview Changes R13 Bulldogs vs Lions

[Bald]

Sounds like Richards will miss again.

 

[dogwatch]

Sounds like Richards will miss again.

Some news on that front?

Not good signs if he does. That was a seemingly low impact head knock but he is building up a history of them.

 

[PurpJuice]

Giving him an extra week to be sure, I wouldn’t worry. Sucks for the Lions game though

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Its Bedendo time.

 

[Bulldog Brent]

Sounds like Richards will miss again.

How come?

 

[MYOB]

How come?

Bevo said he didn't do as well on some the tests as what they had hoped.

 

[AFDogs]

Call me crazy but could we throw Dale forward and have Daniel play his role?

If it's not working by half time we revert back. Dale has history of kicking goals as a forward.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Call me crazy but could we throw Dale forward and have Daniel play his role?

If it's not working by half time we revert back. Dale has history of kicking goals as a forward.

I think Caleb's days as the half back distributor are well and truly done.

 

[Testekill]

I think Caleb's days as the half back distributor are well and truly done.

It's also kinda robbing Peter to pay Paul. Dale is our most reliable distributor coming out of defence

 

[Libbaaaa]

No Richards means the Bont playing forward with spot midfield minutes becomes a non starter.

 

[out of finals]

I thought Caleb looked good on the wing. Didn't get much of the pill and a few small mistakes but definitely something to work with there.

 

[lachy]

Sounds like Richards will miss again.

Makes it harder just picking a team this week.

At this stage the only confirmed outs are Darcy and Harmes.

There are no confirmed ins coming in.

Most of our mids can rotate forward so will need a bit more of lower leagues mid forward rotations so as to not weaken the mids but keep our forward line strong.

If available and those are the only 2 outs I would think Libba and Scott would be the only 2 ins

 

[Golden_6]

Richards has had several concussions in the past 18 months alone. It's not surprising that he would need an extra week.

 

[MYOB]

Makes it harder just picking a team this week.

At this stage the only confirmed outs are Darcy and Harmes.

There are no confirmed ins coming in.

Most of our mids can rotate forward so will need a bit more of lower leagues mid forward rotations so as to not weaken the mids but keep our forward line strong.

If available and those are the only 2 outs I would think Libba and Scott would be the only 2 ins

Richards is a confirmed out

 

[X_box_X]

Richards is a confirmed out

Richards didn't play last week.

 

[MYOB]

Richards didn't play last week.

Correct and he will be out again this week

 

[Bulldog Brent]

How on earth are we $1.44 favourites?!

 

[go_sports_team]

How on earth are we $1.44 favourites?!

Always scares me when we're strong favourites. Brisbane are post bye though where teams seem to struggle nowadays so hoping our recent ability to runout games and turn it on in the 4th helps us this week.

 

[Foxman98]

How on earth are we $1.44 favourites?!

Because Brisbane have been poo most of the year

 

[Merlins Revenge]

Even without Richards, I’m confident in winning the midfield battle. Bont, Treloar and a fit and rested Libba are almost enough by themselves. We definitely need Bedendo in to cover for Bont not being forward as much with Richards missing.

Dogs by 10

 

[Deadly Darcy]

How on earth are we $1.44 favourites?!

Brisbane away and they haven’t beaten us at Etihad in 10 years. Agree with all our outs they are silly odds.

 

[lachy]

Richards is a confirmed out

But he wasn't in

 

[JohnnySteel]

Assuming no debutants? If not announced by now?


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[DiamondDogs8]

Shame about Ed, I’d feel worse about it if Westy’s ban wasn’t overturned. I think Bevo will need to get creative with our forward mix. Personally, I would’ve debuted Buss and sent JOD forward to do a negating role on Andrews. Can see him having a monster game and potentially where we lose it.
With that being said:

Bedendo/Khamis JUH West
Macrae Lobb Garcia

Williams Bont Gags
English Libba Treloar

Duryea JOD Dale
Keath Jones Bramble (very lucky)

Daniel Freijah Sanders McNeil Scott (sub)

 

[Merlins Revenge]

If we somehow beat brisbane this week and then get Richards back for the Freo game and knock them over at Marvel… the year is officially on. We would then maybe get Weightman and possibly Naughton back, along with Darcy after the bye.

Could we potentially bring in Smith and have English forward for this game? I remember someone mentioned that in this thread.