From Bevo’s after match presser :-
RUCKMAN Tim English is set to miss another game with illness next week as the Western Bulldogs look to get on a winning run after their strong victory over Collingwood on Friday night.
The Dogs were too strong for the Magpies at Marvel Stadium, running out 48-point winners to take their season to 4-5 after last year’s Grand Final performance.
They will push to make it back-to-back wins for the first time since the finals last year with their clash against Gold Coast next week in Ballarat but are expecting to again be without their first-choice big man, who has been hit hard by the flu over the past week.
“I don’t think Tim will come back this week. I mentioned he’d been really ill and I mean really ill and so I don’t think he’ll be ready to play next week so ‘Sweety’ is likely to continue on,” Beveridge said post-game.
“Jarrod Witts got the 10 coaches votes last week and was really influential in the game against the Swans having studied them in the lead-up, so he’ll be a big challenge for Sweety but it’s likely to be a similar (ruck) set up as it was tonight.
“(English) just has a really, really bad bout of this flu. It’s just really knocked him around. Nothing sinister, we think he’ll be OK, but he’s probably dropped a little bit of weight and it will take a while to get his bearings again.”
Coach Luke Beveridge praised the performance of big man Jordon Sweet, who had 26 hit-outs and 13 disposals against the Pies, and said he would again shoulder the ruck duties against the Suns.
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Wow, very unlucky for those that held him.
