What are people's thoughts on Nick Lower? Surely he'd get a decent run at the dogs being a mature, experienced player in a young midfield. Only reason I ask is that he is priced roughly the same as Ball, had an average of 97 in 3 games last year, and Ball is coming back from injury.
You're going to get a LOT of differing opinions here, only because our midfield is so hard to crack. You'd think, "Oh yeah the 'Dogs aren't very good, a mature solid body would help them a lot." But the problem comes to you when you try to write a best 22 for us - in the midfield, you'd play all of Boyd, Griffen, Cooney (injury permitting), Wallis, Libba, Picken, Cross, Dahlhaus and Higgins ahead of him, and then you have players like Hrovat, Stringer, Macrae, Hunter, Prudden, Smith, Stevens, Howard, Tutt, Wood etc pushing for selection there as well.
I hate the idea of playing Lower at half back since I think he's been mismanaged at both Port and Freo by being played there. Just depends how we see him, and how much of a risk you're willing to take.
I'd stay well away from him, but there will be people who completely disagree.