behind selwood, selwood, danger, guthrie, caddy, blicavs, motlop, duncan for midfield minutes in my opinion without considering potentially improving players such as cockatoo, lang
our backline will be interesting. kolo, lonners, taylor and henderson much to tall. we need at least one lock down small defender playing so i think we need bews to play in one back pocket. thurlow and enright depending on matchups. if i had to guess.
bews henderson kolo
thurlow taylor enright...
if bartel plays many midfield minutes next season we will miss the top 4. i dont see a position for him at all. i dont think the plan is for him to play forward otherwise we would have kept johnson. he is about eighth in line as a mid. scott will play him in defence to the detriment of the team...
bartel hasnt been a good midfielder for a number of years. he wont play forward otherwise we surely would have kept johnson (who was also a better midfielder than bartel). I dont see who he gets games ahead of, I'm expecting vfl for majority of the year
excellent work by the club. Also like the way it has been timed to coincide with a big list turn over, us turning into a destination club.
Simple and effective, acknowledges the past and points to the future
I really think we should have got rid of bartel and kept johnson as we are short in medium forwards.
And please dont give me this crap about bartel playing forward. he is slow as treacle and has not taken an overhead mark for a long time
Draft-
medium forwards: We have kerstan, menzel and that's it
Small forward: We dont have any genuine crumbers capable of kicking a bag
Small lock down defenders: need more depth
Rucks: Goes without saying really. Have read but need another developing ruck
high risk punts- aguis sounds perfect...
vardy, clark, hawkins all ahead of walker with potential to swing back henderson/taylor or lonergan if desperate.
Jensen and walker are both average and smith is very very good at his best in an area of great need.
I would pick up Shaw or butcher as fwd coverage
Also consider fitzpatrick as he can play ruck or cover as a backman (been doing in vfl with success). Maybe gorringe or giles as servicable back-ups for stanley
Non of the above players are really long term players but if we have a few key...
So... the only change in the backline is henderson coming in yet 4 players who have kicked 20 goals between them over the last 2 games will suddenly be a non issue :$:$
Perhaps we can play henderson on rioli then as he is a good kick of the footy :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Lol is that why bruest, rioli and puopolo have kicked bags on us this year
So the only difference between this year and next is lonergan-our best shut down defender, goes out and henderson comes in. And now we all of a sudden are going to contain there small forwards :$:$
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Of course we have not sold our future. I'm sure in 4 years time and dangerfield is the only one on still on the list there will be more free agents which we will then throw away first round picks for. Both selwwod and henderson are every chance to spend significant time in...
2 main issues:
- We still have Scott as coach
- Our backline is incredibly slow
For all those making comments like this:
Both Fremantle, hawthorn and West Coast have quality small/medium forwards that will have a field day against us.
There is no way we will contain gunstan, rioli, smith...
The first round of this draft is pretty strong. it has extremely poor depth and we are going to be taking a bunch of late picks.
We are better off with late picks in a fairly even draft.
I don't mind who we have got.
The problem is every club bends us over at the trade table. We have all the...
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