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Pelchen is a has beenThe article in the age has our list in the bottom couple. Pelchen reluctantly states that our midfield is OK but that our key positions are weak.
I was stunned that our midfield keeps being rated so badly comparatively.
For example - Adelaide is rated well above us in the midfield?
They have Sloane - a champion but would you pay more for him than Bont?
Then the Crouch brothers - very good players but how could you put them in front of Macrae and Libba (both all Australians) and then the gap gets much wider:
Hunter, Dunkley, McLean, Richards, Daniel, Williams and Wallis (and how Smith and West) v.
Greenwood, Atkins and Douglas.
Ruck - Jacobs is
The KPP’s are clearly a reverse of this.
Walker, Jenkins and Fogarty v. Schache, Boyd and ????. If it were draft position then we kill it - if it is proven ability to score goals then.....
Talia, Keath and Kelly (with Hardigan and Otten in reserve) v. Naughton, Cordy and Morris (with Fletch and Young in reserve). [note Doedee more competes with Wood). Definitely a close contest but not quite there yet.
But despite all this our spine in 2015 (where we should have beaten Adelaide and progressed) and 2016 - was basically:
Hamling - reject from Geelong
Fletch - most people here thinks he is rubbish
Roughy - who most think was night quite up to it
Cordy - makeshift at best
Boyd - was a baby
This took as all the way because the system not the list was tight and effective. I believe we have a better spine today.
What’s more the Age had us staying low for a while - what a pile of crap. Our Mids average around 23 and so have ten years in them.
And Over the next 5 years our core spine will grow and improve together:
Boyd - 23
Schache - 21
Third tall? Don’t have one (playing Gowers and Green both 187 and young also).
English/Sweet 21
Young - 20
Naughton- 19
Cordy - 22
Plenty of questions marks but if this crew develops together (and they will all continue to develop until the prime of 26-30) they can take us up their again.
They love to say we are crap - let’s stick it up em! Again!
I reckon part of the reason we went with Cavarra, Lloyd and others is to create a mobile high pressure fwd line similar to the Tigers (ablieit without someone of Riewoldts quality) or even simislar to our 2016 Finals version.Only one thing will stop us, and that is the inability to put a score on the board.
If Dickson and Gowers can both play 18+ games I'd just about pencil us in. Big load for Schache, with English and Trengove swapping, and Ed Naughton pinch-hitting.
Suckling off a flank, Wallis' straight kicking, and the likes of Lloyd chipping in.
Last but not least Bont will play 50% down there.
Is the Hamling role go back home to Western Australia for more money ? because I would rather he gaveNaughton to take the Hamling Role
Didn't he go back for family reasons? His brother if i recall correctly.Is the Hamling role go back home to Western Australia for more money ? because I would rather he gave
that role a big miss.
I am not sure if it was his brother, but he did sight family reasons also his best mate Shane Kersten alsoDidn't he go back for family reasons? His brother if i recall correctly.