Round 5 - Williamstown vs Collingwood at Point Gellibrand

[MagpieBat]

Where and When:
2:00pm this Sunday at Morris Street.

Directions:
Train - Take the Williamstown line to Williamstown station. Walk across the footbridge to the intersection and walk across Railway Terrace into Morris Street. Follow Morris Street for 400m until you get to the oval. There should be a ticket gate at the Port Phillip Bay end of the ground.

Broadcast:
Internet - LiveChat on collingwoodfc.com.au

Team:
B: Gault Frost Sinclair
HB: Riddle Russell Oxley
C: Yagmoor Ball Didak
HF: Martin Allan Mooney
F: Richmond Boland Paine
R: Hudson Fasolo M. Williams
Int: Corr Collopy Ferguson Gray Greenhough* Hellier Hine Mitchem Moloney

Where They Sit:
Williamstown: 5th (2 wins, 2 losses, 153.71%)
Collingwood: 6th (2 wins, 2 losses, 149.49%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 15, 2012 at Point Gellibrand Oval
Williamstown 16.22.118, def
Collingwood 11.4.70

Head to Head (since 2008):
Played: 9
Williamstown: 8
Collingwood: 1

How They Fared Last Week:
Casey 14.8.92, def
Williamstown 9.15.69

Bendigo 9.6.60, def by
Collingwood 25.26.176

Over to you...

[Dave The Man]

I should be there Sunday Arvo.

Be a Intresting Game, Reckon we are a Chance

[MagpieBat]

I reckon how the respective senior teams go at the selection table may be the deciding outcome. Bulldogs are very depleted at the moment, but we aren't exactly in crash hot shape either.

Depending on the results of this round, we could find ourselves in the top4 after 5 rounds, possibly as high as 3rd, which would be a remarkable achievement after the 2 years of floggings we've recieved at this level.

Might we see Hudson vs Wood in the ruck? "Hey, Woody, I took your spot."

[3rd degree]

I reckon how the respective senior teams go at the selection table may be the deciding outcome. Bulldogs are very depleted at the moment, but we aren't exactly in crash hot shape either.

Depending on the results of this round, we could find ourselves in the top4 after 5 rounds, possibly as high as 3rd, which would be a remarkable achievement after the 2 years of floggings we've recieved at this level.

Might we see Hudson vs Wood in the ruck? "Hey, Woody, I took your spot."

Nice Work Bat I reckon big Huddo might win the niggle in this one for some reason!

[perthmagpie]

Gault Frost Sinclair
Riddell Russell Oxley
Yagmoor Ball Didak
Martin Allan Mooney
Richmond Boland Paine
Hudson, Fasolo, M.Williams
I: all Non-listed players.

No Johno. Also injured still Grundy, Broomy, Ramsay, Maxy, Beams and Toovey. Mooney back this week.

[MagpieBat]

The VFL side is in...

Collingwood
B: Gault Frost Sinclair
HB: Riddle Russell Oxley
C: Yagmoor Ball Didak
HF: Martin Allan Mooney
F: Richmond Boland Paine
R: Hudson Fasolo M. Williams
Int: Corr Collopy Ferguson Gray Greenhough* Hellier Hine Mitchem Moloney

Huddo's leg musn't be that sore if he's going to take on the Willy rucks.

On the other hand, it is Cameron Wood who he'll be lining up on, so one leg should be more than enough...

Good to see Boland back for his 1st game this year.

And Mooney's back from his calf injury.

Still no Johnson, though...

[jackcass]

Good to see Mooney back from a calf.

Nice also to see Boland playing his first game back from a knee.

[warburton lad]

Should be there Sunday.

Looking forward to seeing the likes of Gault, Oxley, Richmond, Paine, Williams, Didak, Ball and Frost.

Can't wait- will give a match report if I attend.

[woftam]

Might pop down myself. Depends on circumstances over the weekend.
Would like to see Ball, Frost & Williams in particular.

[neil]

Interesting that Sinclair is named in the backline.
To the VFL watchers does where they are named have any resemblence to where they actually play?
Sinclairs tackling, pressure and pace make him potentially a promising solution to the opposition small forwards.

Or simply cant kick chuck them in the backline.

[MagpieBat]

Interesting that Sinclair is named in the backline.
To the VFL watchers does where they are named have any resemblence to where they actually play?
Sinclairs tackling, pressure and pace make him potentially a promising solution to the opposition small forwards.

Or simply cant kick chuck them in the backline.

It can depend on the player.

Take Krakouer and Didak. Both have played predominately through the middle in the VFL, because that's how the club enables them to get their minutes up and their legs accustomed to football again. Should they play seniors, though, they'll likely play predominately forward.

Look at Fasolo. Was brought back too soon, his fitness levels got exposed at senior level (although his poor attitude had a lot to do with his poor form as well). He's named as a rover, so he'll be running in the middle to get miles into his legs.

With Sinclair I suspect that the fact he is an abject failure up forward, combined with the necessity caused by Toovey's knee injury, means that Buckley has decided to (re)invent a role for him as a small defender. Order him to take an AFL-listed small forward currently doing duty in the reserves and instruct him to follow him around, see how he does.

[AN_Inkling]

Great to see Mooney back.

Interesting that Sinclair's named in defense. His omission would make even more sense if we were looking to turn him into a defender now that Toovey's gone.

[Pa Marmo]

Looking forward to getting down to the Burbank once again, love the games at Werribee and Willy.

[MagpieBat]

Martin, Oxley, Hudson and Mitchem NOT playing...

... so, basically, half our good players are in the stands...

[MagpieBat]

B: Corey Gault, Jack Frost, Ben Sinclair
HB: Nick Riddle, Jordan Russell, Matthew Hine
C: Peter Yagmoor, Luke Ball, Alan Didak
HF: Lachie Ferguson, Tim Allan, Caolan Mooney
F: Ben Richmond, Matthew Boland, Jackson Paine
Foll: Scott Greenhough*, Alex Fasolo, Marley Williams
Int: Cathal Corr, Jordan Collopy, Nick Gray, Jack Hellier, Ben Moloney