Headland said to be unfit for R1

Firstly, Benny C will be playing round 1…and thats the last time i will say it monty. Vomitting is fine, maybe if more of the Richmond players hurled it may have meant they were running alittle harder for each other. Ben is supremely fit, with 4 weeks to go til round 1 he will be running that midfield like a general.

Second, Jay Nash? What? this bloke played 21 games last season, a regular in the team. Got 26 possies in their NAB game last weekend…pretty sure he’s a definate.

Third, Dessy Headland wont be playing round 1…and to be quite honest i think he only has this year and perhaps 1 more year before he is set to retire.

…whats your thoughts on Daniel Jackson monty? Rekon hes set for abit of a breakout, or will he just get run-with roles come the season proper?

A Otten, Adelaide. Not even waiting?

Campbell (HAW) is named this week too (didn’t I see), so I am not sure if he will be iffy unless he gets another injury during the NAB Cup.

So my thoughts about Dowler on this weeks Coaches Box podcast (available to listen too here: http://www.coachesbox.com.au/2009/02/26/2009-nab-cup-round-1/) did even sway you to add him to the Waiting list? How about a dark horse list? I think both Dowler and Moss could be on that for the Hawks!

Keep up the good work!

like normal ur missing walker for adelaide.

dont know how u got danger in there while his not even playing this week and did not play last week.

Wojcinski is injured for the Cats, and Hawkins is not.

Seen plenty of players vomit after a hard quarter or two; nothing to really worry about IMO.

What is the news on Ballantyne? I knew he was injured but when is he due back?

After last night’s effort I think Beams will play. He looks the goods I reckon. Bit of a shame Sidebottom did not play; perhaps he is being nursed thru early on and then debuts Round 4-5??

seeing as ben reid played up foward last night
when rocca/rusling come back will he be dropped?
any thoughts

Monty,

I will make a $100, $500, $10,000 (you get the picure) with you that Ben Cousins plays Rd 1. There it is in writing. Get with it man.

Have you ever watched Cousins play before? He throws up every game.

If he doesn’t play the first game, he will play the second and someone will have to miss out. Probably in our interests to keep in mind round 2 projections.

Agree monty, cousins isn’t ready and he is a liability. But this is Terry Wallace and Richmond we are talking about. Why would it stop them? Beams looked good. Quality disposals.

When Carazzo and Nick Stevens come in, who would be the ones that go out? Robinson? Bentick? Hadley? who do you think would be the one that survives of those monty?

Could McKenna replace Hogan?

What made u put Dangerfield in monty? not playing in the 26 again this week instead playing in an internal trial for a SANFL club. gees that would be a high quality affair.

Zabeel looked great, but didn’t look like a great DTer (not enough cheapies).

Trengove on LTI list also gives Meyer a look in Monty, not just Thompson. Meyer has looked good in internal trial and NAB 1. Having said that i think that Gray might be in trouble if Thompson continues to impress.

Oh and when you are handing out the spuds, feel free to put one next to Toby Thurstans name

Hey Monty,

Noticed Cheney played a nice game the other day for the Dees. Body looked rdy and made some nice decisions under pressure. Have you seen much of him, and have you written him off as a chance in the starting 22?

Cale Morton as ruck rover (getting into and around packs and working in traffic on the ball in the AFL) and their captain James McDonald on the pine? Somehow I dont thnk so.

I believe that Shannon Cox is ahead of Goldsack at the moment in the back pocket or the pies.

Ryan Cook will also play. He has been given the tagging role for Collingwood. Probably replacing Corrie or Wellingham in your proposed side.

Stevo wrote: seeing as ben reid played up foward last night
when rocca/rusling come back will he be dropped?
any thoughts

I liked the look of Reid last night. He moved well and his kicking seems to have improved. I reckon he’ll play in a stop gap role forward & back. Not so sure on Rusling at this stage; if he was right you’d think they’d play him during the NAB….

what you’re saying monty is, after drafting cuz in early december richmond cant get cuz ready for a match in late march. also cuz has hurled almost every match throughout his career, so that is a good sign. if the only the rest of the tigers had such a work rate. he sure is a liability i’d like at my club

Monty, I believe you are trying to lead us all down the garden path.

You cant seriously expect Dean Laidley to play his prized first round draftee in round 1. XD

And if he does play then you know he wont play round 2, 3 or 4. Round 5 we might see another cameo just to keep us hanging on. Then he’ll miss round 6-17 and Scott D Thompson will replace him!

Name an amount Monty for Cousins not playing Rd1 and I will make the bet. Any amount.

Cousins could have blown the 3rd little pigs house over last night. He is definitely not up to elite level yet. He will get there. Who knows whether he can get there by Round 1 but he was spectating off the ball a lot more than when he played for us, so quite obviously he doesn’t have the output at the moment. If Cuz does miss rd 1 he won’t be far off after that. He does have another month to get fully fit.

I don’t think Beams will play round 1, he looked OK though. Seems a bit skinny - will probably get sporadic games like Wellingham got last year. I don’t like the way Collingwood bloods youngsters (well for my Dream Team anyway hehe).

Ballantyne, Harvey said round 3-4 but he’ll come in softly through 1-2 WAFL games first. So might be in at round 5-7.

I agree Markl, Cheney did look quite good (and ready to go). Another plus is that he would fill my Ranga quota also.

Time to reload the ARR Monty! (that’s Anti-Rance Rant). He’s baaaack. Start thinking about who he’ll replace in that Rd 1 team, Rance was one of the Tigers best on debut…

Cousins will play…they have to

Dangerfield no hope

Question: What about Toovey from the Pies he looked very composed 15 possies and the best of the three or four fighting for that 22nd spot??

Cousins will play round 1. Mark my words. It is such an obvious money grab for richmond that they bring cousins in a NAB cup fixture against none other then Collingwood at a richmond home game. Combined with the round 1 Judd/Cousins crowd puller .. its clear where the mindset is at richmond.

many great players have a spew during or before the game. Doesnt mean they’re battling. Watch Andy Mcleod before the start of each half……spews every time.

By the way, heard nothing about danny meyers. He’ll pop up at some stage this year at 83,000. he played against Swans in the NAB and scored 80 sc points.

Fact 1. Cousins will not play VFL.
Fact 2. Cousins needs match fitness.
Fact 3. Round 1 provides a good opportunity for match fitness.
Fact 4. Cousins round 1 = $$$
Fact 5. Cousins will play round 1, even if it is off the bench and playing as a run up forward.

Galen, Richmond dont get money for ticketsales at NAB cup, it all goes to teh AFL….

Monty why are you constantly leaving Aker outn of the dogs line up. I also think harbrow gets the nod before callan ward.

Think aker is injured?.

benny has always been a big spewer..it wasnt uncommon to see him spewing whilst training at the eagles in peek fitness. he stays in my side til i hear wallace plans otherwise..and also channel 10 hav jumped the gun and already began advertising judd vs cousins haha

Look at the Cousins situation laterally.
Who was missing for Richmond last night?
All I can think of is Bowden, Tuck, Cotchin and Pattison. ( Please correct me if I’ve missed anyone )
Pattison and Bowden are irrelevant due to position.
So Tuck and Cotchin to come in. We know that Cotchin is highly unlikely for R1.
I’d stuggle to have Edwards and Polo in my best 22. Not saying that they were bad last night, they just don’t seem to fit in the tigers structure.
Nahas will benefit from games at Coburg, so not yet.
Thomson however looked to put his hand up at stages last night.
Conclusion, Cousins scrapes into the 22 and you give a champion the benefit to improve with more match time.

There is no mention of Andy Otten. Do you think he is no chance for a game with the crows round 1??????

As with a few of the above comments, I think Cousins is carrying substandard fitness. He wasn’t keeping pace with the best of them last night but that’s not to say he isn’t any good! with particular regard to his game time last night, I think he’ll probably play Rd1, but he wont be running full games out, and has every chance of losing money early.

If Van Berlo doesn’t recover then Otten is a chance.

There is a reason that Andy Otten is named Andy Forgotten…. He is clearly ahead of Dangertime at this stage..

Rob’s 5 bullet points about Cuz are indesputable. The fact is the Tiges will be attracted to picking Cuz R1 because it’s a Richmond home game and the Tiges will get a nice slice off the gate. I am really conflicted this year about my SC lineup. $500K for Dalziell - u got to be joking. But being a North man and have heard murmurs this week around Arden St that Ziebell is straight in. A guy like Danny Harris would want to be looking over his shoulder for Ziebell. Hey Monty, where did you hear that stuff about Lachy Hansen being down on the club? MMMmmm Steve Hill - should I or shouldn’t I?

M0Nty Get rid of WELLINGHAM and IN Beams!

Summarizing above cousins saga then …

Yes, he will play, but he will also be underdone so don’t include him if you were stupid enough to have him in the first place.

Petrenko and Otten are both good chances to take that last spot for the Crows.

Surely last weeks game confirmed that Walker is ahead of Gill. He did more in a quarter than Gilly did in the whole game. Even Hentschel could be ahead of Gill now.

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cousins in
beams in
andy otten not evn waiting?
currie/pyke ahead of white for 2nd ruck
suban in 4 headland
other than that not bad

I agree with everyone else, Cousins will play. Lots of players throw up through matches, don’t no if u have taken much notice in McLeod but he throws up a lot.

why is Salopek classed as iffy, he was one was Ports best in 08 surely hes ready to go after his achilles injury

Vomiting is probably good for cousins i no when im not fit and i vomit with in a week or two i am very fit!

Salopek is only iffy due to that injury, Nel.

Cmon Monty, relent. You know Kelly is ahead of Wojo and Hogan. Let it go, I swear, it will be alright.

Good work, interesting to hear about Thorp. I think without Croad he must play.

A quick one, and it is not that relevant…but Maxwell will not play on Goodwin…he’ll play the role he did against Scott Thompson in the finals last year.

I knew you would see it my way m0nty about Presti

@Ben

Apparently it removes lactic acid build up within the muscles much faster than just running it off.

Have a read:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20487412-2722,00.html

Monty ever heard of a bloke called Akermanis??

Cousins not fit….doesnt matter he will bring others into the game.He is a genuine play maker,moves well and gets a lot of the ball.He will play round 1.

Dan- I’m a doctor and the concept that vomiting removes lactic acid from your bloodstream is bollocks. Just so you know.

Monty are you putting up scores from the NAB challenge games? Or are they available anywhere?

Cousins played about 3 quarters for 21 touches. Not bad for a first game. Disposal was not that good so SuperCoach is not ideal.

But Judd’s priced at about an extra $30K, the safer bet would be Judd. I wouldn’t mind picking Cousins up if his price drops to about $300K.

m0nty, Grimes got 26 posessions today in melbournes challenge match. So you can be assured that you are right with this team, Grimes will be a lock come round 1.

Monty - do you know where we can get statistics from teams knocked out of the NAB? Practice Matches.

I went to the WBD Saints and saw Ward eating a super dog, and of course it made me follow suit. He’s not small anymore…

Cousins loves a good vomit. I’d rate him well ahead of a Daniel Jackson, Shane Edwards or Matt White based on what I saw of the first half.

Can we know when Ballantyne will get his debut?

The Fantasy Freako newsletter on Wednesday will have them, freosteve.

Monty, good effort on the Dogs side but J.Grant isnt in the best 22 and Harbrow is an absolute lock. Did you see his 2 finals games last year against Geelong and Sydney? Was clearly in our best, training the house down and Eade loves him. (Tim Callan and Tiller before Everitt as well)

Cheers Monty

A mate of mine will crunch the numbers (he is a financial modeler)- I just need the data

Eade said somewhere, not long ago, that Harbrow was in the Dogs best 22. But Eade also said Grant would get at least 10 games this year.

Andy Oten will start round 1, probably for dangerfield.

Taylor Walker will start round one no doubt

COUSINS will 100% play round one, and anyone who thinks he will not has rocks in their head.

Tim Callan if fi will play for he doggies. No doubt Eade loves him and he cn play.

I wou;d be surprised if yarran started round one also - very surprised

m0nty, I reckon Surjan is a monty (boom tish) to play the majority of the season. He’s not the most talented footballer going around, but he is Port’s best accountable small defender.

Agree with cmiggles33 on Otten and Walker, both are definitely closer than Dangerfield at this point.

What is all the hype with Dangerfield? He has had a full pre season to get ready, why should he not be ready for round 1?

he has not had a full pre season ash. he has had a hamstring problem then whiplash so he is pretty far behind the rest of the group

Seems a bit weird to me that all Preseason, you’ve refused to put in Dangerfield, and now after missing his third game in a row you decide to put him in.
Walker and Otten would now be easily ahead of him.
I hope that all 3 end up making the team though.
Still hate that forward line. Needs a lot of work. If we are playing those 6 in the forwards, then there is absolutely no way Walker would be omitted from the team. Let alone Hentschel aswell

Does anyone know how long Hurley is out for?

any word on t.swift’s progress?

wacko

swift played for claremont this weekend and got reported

what difference does it make to everyone if monty says cousins will play or not?
if you are certain he will play why do you need to see monty put it on paper?

I’m with you Yakuza. Haven’t we all overdosed on Cuz (including all the drug puns……whoops, my bad)? Pick him if you want him. Watch him if he plays. And for God’s sake, get off monty’s back for having an opinion!

I’d put my life savings on Kelly playing Round 1 m0nty, there’s no way he won’t unless injured. Take it from me, Hogan will have to wait until Round 2 at least.

nash will play for bombers rd1 for shore a.davey wont, wil play couple of games in the twos first,jason winderlich will play rd 1 either gumbelton/jetta or reimers will miss as he is injured not shore bout some of those team selection see mistakes in all.

Looking for opinions on Buddy and Kerr for SC?

and for the record…cuz is not in my team.

I dont know that Hinkley will play for Fremantle. I have a funny feeling that Broughton or DeBoer will be lifted from the rookie list and take that spot if it doesnt go to Suban.

No love for Hentschell in Adelaide??

Please put Macaffer in waiting or the team
if Rusling, Rocca, Medhurst are not in
he is defiantly going to be the next guy in
he showed great form against the tigers
6 possies and setup 2 goals and kicked a goal himself
he had a minor injury but is ahead of alot of kids
Sharrod Wellingham i recon wont make the 22

Dan,
Love that article, he will play for sure by the way (it’s worth too much cash - for hose who have not realised it is a business)

As for “Andy the doctor”,
Are you involved in elite sports? If not how does your knowledge of boils and bunions (or butts, or fanny’s, or feet for that matter - if you are a “special”) make your opinion more valid than those that do? If you are an expert i the field then I pre-apologise, however much I sincerely doubt it necesary.

To Monty,
Captain ‘Pine’ McDonald is laughable if he is in the team at all he is on the ground.

guys dont be so harsh on the Mont. He cant know every teams happenings! Thought this segment made for a great read still! Kept me in touch with the going ons at other clubs besides the one I follow!

What about James Polkinghorne Monty, has had two solid preseason outings, not even considered??

In SC, would you put Jack Grimes or Stephen Hill in for the 7th spot, who will get more games/game time? or even put both? Also Monty, do you have a link for the amount of game time % the players are getting in the NAB cup?

Hey Monty, i’m pretty sure Akermanis didn’t announce his retirement last season, so how come he has been totally left off of the bulldogs team?

Reckon Jeffery Gartlett would be bang in contention for Carlton now, they have the space to elevate him I think?

yo monty no mention of scott selwood for west coast … do you know why he won’t play?

Scott Welsh. Bulldogs only legitimate forward and can’t get a crack? Unlikely.

Richmond- 21 touches for Cousins is an exceptional return after 17 months holiday. He would be as fit as a rookie right now. He’ll play.

Carlton- Do they really need to play Hampson when they have Cloke and Kreuzer in team? Surely Sam Jacobs is better than Hampson anyway…

Hawthorn suffered a few more injuries against carlton?
how severe were they and does this improves schoenmakers chances to play round 1?
or will he be over looked?

any1 else think the site will crash for the rnd 1 opener? teams come out on thursday night at 5 and the lockout will be at 7 10 = many pissed off dters without full teams.

Whats wrong with Hurley and Ballantyne? How long are they planning to be out for?

With Jesse W Smith probably missing round 1 with that crepe paper hamstring of his does this take Urquhart off the “ïffy list” Monty? Does Lower or Thompson now come in?

Any Hawks supporters (Monty). What is the status of Luke Hodge’s recovery?

Luke Ablett played on the weekend, and played alright. Crouch is in the best 22.

They haven’t been using White in the ruck at all in the trial games. I think they’ll go with Currie to back up Jolly, but I could be wrong.

That forward line looks impotent without O’loughlin. I think Goodes will spend a lot of time in the forwards early on.

Ballantyne is not looking good for rd 1. My best guess is sometime around rd 3

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monty, big ask mate but is it possible to do a write up on the current injuries.
where players are at?
if you can get this information i’m sure there would be some very greatful DTers!

SC: as all you fellas seem to be experts! i want to know first year players or under 100,000! 3 from each position with the most chance of playing!

Backmen- Hill

Midfield- Rich

Ruckmen-

Forward- Ziebell, Gumbleton

need help!

monty i notice you completely left out tom swift from the west coast line-up. is there an injury concern i don’t know of. the raps on this kid are huge and for now i’ve got him along with robinson on my emergencies. should i keep him there?

Um…Monty…Did you replace this Thursdays edition of predicted starters, Version 6, with just the squads of the upcoming NAB games ?

Yeah, with the video Coaches Box tonight I didn’t have time to do v6.0. That will be tomorrow.

Zac Dawson…? why isn’t he there he’s a shoe in for round one H&A debut