Injuries.

[The Fireman]

The Herald Sun

[bigcarl]

Playing only 1 ruckman who is our pinch hit backup,dont like Carlise in this roll.Marsh maybe

As I understand it, Carlisle doesn’t like it either. A pity, because he’d be a good ruck back up option

[BarryGrogan]

If Ryder and Marshall only have 16 possessions against this between them (as they did against the Dogs) - we're basically going in a midfielder short. That's a lot to concede.

Not if their ruckwork results in 3 of our midfielders getting an extra 7-8 touches and a few more clearances.

[samoht]

If Ryder and Marshall only have 16 possessions against this between them (as they did against the Dogs) - we're basically going in a midfielder short. That's a lot to concede.

Not if their ruckwork results in 3 of our midfielders getting an extra 7-8 touches and a few more clearances.

Well, the team stats show that we had more than quadruple the Bulldog’s
hitouts - 49 to 12 - that’s a whopping 37 more hitouts to us ... yet we only had 3 more team clearances - 32 to 29 ... so I very much doubt that 3 of our midfielders are going to end up with 7-8 more possessions each as a result of our hitouts.
If we use the game vs the Bulldogs as a yardstick, we will need to win something like 300 more hitouts if you do the math .... or by 400 hitouts to 100 hitouts - it won’t happen.

[BarryGrogan]

.... had 3 more team clearances - 32 to 29 ... so I very much doubt that 3 of our midfielders are going to end up with 7-8 more possessions each as a result of our hitouts.

There's more to ruckwork than just hitouts.