Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this week’s Game Day thread for this year’s edition of the Queen’s Birthday clash against the once-were, many moons ago, arch rival Melbourne. Pleasingly, this little event fixture is our home game this season, for the first time in many years.
The teams:
Tip: Collingwood by 17 points.
Over to you…
Who would you then leave out for Elliot, RS?
I would play Brown before Thomas – the stats you linked to show that Brown is doing at least as well as Thomas on just about every variable this year but has only played 23 games compared to Thomas who has played over 70. There is upside in Brown who will get better with another 25 games under his belt.
For me it would be Adams for Thomas, Langdon for Aish/Greenwood depending on who we were playing and if a tag was required then possibly Langdon for Varcoe. One person we have not mentioned is Scharenberg – he has plenty of ability if he can get himself fit enough. According to reports he has never been fitter in a training sense so if the knees stay healthy maybe he can find a way back. I would not write off Langdon – his finals performances last year were excellent.