What is our best line up?

[cwrcyn]

When King and Webster return?

[Otiman]

I'd say selection is driven by fitness and form, but that hasn't seemed to be the case for the last 3 weeks.

[D.B.Cooper]

Here's my guess for this years GF, but we all understand that is impossible to have all available.
Jones is a great fit as a sub as he can have an immediate impact with his speed and grit, especially if the heat is out of the game.
Maybe it is one tall, short if you get my drift.

B. Webster Howard Wilkie
HB. Sinclair Battle NWM
C. Wood Crouch Byrnes
HF. Hill Membrey Owens
F. Gresham King Higgins

R. Marshall Steele Ross

INT. Clark Windhager Billings Phillipou
Sub: Jones

EMG: Stocker Butler Caminiti Bytel Cordy Paton Coffield

[Banger9798]

That is an impressive emergency list...as good as I can remember for a long time

[B.M]

Billings is in the best team

At his best he in the best 10

We have short memories

[saynta]

No way Stocker will miss out unless injured or form drops off.

[Templar]

Best line up? Depends on who we are playing, who is fit, who is on song with game plan, team rules, and with the ball that week/month. (throw in a sprinkle of social engineering

Its a moving tapestry!

[nostalgicsaint]

Here's my guess for this years GF, but we all understand that is impossible to have all available.
Jones is a great fit as a sub as he can have an immediate impact with his speed and grit, especially if the heat is out of the game.
Maybe it is one tall, short if you get my drift.

B. Webster Howard Wilkie
HB. Sinclair Battle NWM
C. Wood Crouch Byrnes
HF. Hill Membrey Owens
F. Gresham King Higgins

R. Marshall Steele Ross

INT. Clark Windhager Billings Phillipou
Sub: Jones

EMG: Stocker Butler Caminiti Bytel Cordy Paton Coffield

Pretty close to this.

Windhager to Sub, Jones out, Butler in.

[Ghost Like]

Here's my guess for this years GF, but we all understand that is impossible to have all available.
Jones is a great fit as a sub as he can have an immediate impact with his speed and grit, especially if the heat is out of the game.
Maybe it is one tall, short if you get my drift.

B. Webster Howard Wilkie
HB. Sinclair Battle NWM
C. Wood Crouch Byrnes
HF. Hill Membrey Owens
F. Gresham King Higgins

R. Marshall Steele Ross

INT. Clark Windhager Billings Phillipou
Sub: Jones

EMG: Stocker Butler Caminiti Bytel Cordy Paton Coffield

Great try D.B.. Excellent effort to name a 23, very easy to say player X should be in without dropping player Y. Hard exercise in reality...a reasonable list if all fit.

At present I'd have Stocker before Webster. I'd also have Butler for Windhager (Windy has a bit to learn I believe).

Sub is out of Bytel, Paton, Coffield...20 weeks from a GF, I'd go for the more versatile, The Coff!

P.S.: Would not be surprised if Caminiti nudges Membrey from a spot.

[Saintmike65]

We need 2 tall forwards.. I like the King & Caminiti combination, with Membrey the hybrid.
That would release Owens to the midfield.
Webster is a lock when fit, as is Billings…agree Jones would be a handy sub but he’s never fit (in the rehab group yet again today).

[George27]

No way Stocker will miss out unless injured or form drops off.

Agree. Looking at DB Cooper’s team I would only make the following changes.

Billings to the wing, Butler to the bench , Byrnes out.

Stocker to the bench as reserve back, Windhager to sub.Jones out.

Would be great if we could get that 23 all fit and firing .

[cwrcyn]

I agree Saintmike65. Caminiti and King, with Membrey the medium tall. Owens 50/50 on ball/forward swapping with Gresham.

Webster for Paton

Billings for Byrnes ( although Byrnes does a lot of hard unrewarded running that helps us defensively)

[D.B.Cooper]

Billings is in the best team

At his best he in the best 10

We have short memories

Who doesn’t have him in their best 22?

[Moods]

Billings is in the best team

At his best he in the best 10

We have short memories

You have a long memory if you can remember Billings best form. 4 years ago now. For mine he has to wait his turn and prove himself all over again.

As things stand right now I wouldn’t have him in our best 22, which, it appears Ross agrees with me. He’ll get his opportunity to prove people wrong though.

[Moods]

I agree Saintmike65. Caminiti and King, with Membrey the medium tall. Owens 50/50 on ball/forward swapping with Gresham.

Webster for Paton

Billings for Byrnes ( although Byrnes does a lot of hard unrewarded running that helps us defensively)

I agree with all of this, except the Billings part

[Scollop]

I'd play Jack Bytel instead of Crouch in DB's line up (unpopular but just give the kid an opportunity for 5-6 games and he'll rip it up)

I'd leave Ronnie in the team ahead of JB.

One of either Billings or Hill for the half forward role, but not both!

I like what I saw with Caminiti. Very raw but he's the new 'Prospect'

Also unpopular; I'd play Butler and have Higgins as the emergency.

Snags doesn't provide as much pressure as Buttsy and imo, Higgins tries to play like a tall.

We need the three marking options so The Hammer and Skunk play or if one of these guys is injured we play Coops

Cordy plays only if one of our tall defenders is injured.

What bothers me about these threads ("What is our best line up?") and other exercises where you are trying to make assumptions, is that you are putting preconceived ideas into your head about who should be in the team. It's a long season. When you utilise the whole list and you manage the workload it gives the St Kilda Football club the best chance of competing with the very best opposition teams at the pointy end of the year.

It may upset 1 or 2 players who don't get to play all 22 games of home and away to earn their bonus but so what. The whole reason for the existence of the football club is to compete in finals and hopefully get an opportunity to play off deep into September

If we are playing favourites and if we think a player is a lock for 22 games of home and away regardless of form or who we are playing - and we still expect that player to be in peak form in September - we are stuffed!!

[bigcarl]

We need 2 tall forwards.. I like the King & Caminiti combination, with Membrey the hybrid.
That would release Owens to the midfield.
Webster is a lock when fit

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