So in terms of overall list management we are ideally looking to build a premiership team. Therefore we should have an idea what those 22 players should look like.
I might propose the following:
Backs: 2 KPD, 1 Floating tall, 3 Rebounding Defenders (6)
Midfield: 1 Primary Ruck, 1 Backup Ruck, 5 Inside mids, 4 Outside Mids (11)
Forwards: 2 KPF, 2 crumbing forwards, 1 marking medium (5)
In-built flexibility is also key.
If we assume that only players under 26 are possibly going to be involved in a future premiership (not too unreasonable IMO) then I believe the following players are already in place:
Patrick Cripps (Inside Mid)
Sam Kerridge (Inside/Outside Mid)
Blaine Boekhorst (Outside Mid)
Sam Docherty (Rebounding Defender)
Jacob Weitering (KPD)
And possibly:
Jack Silvagni (Marking Medium)
Dylan Buckley (Rebounding Defender)
Harry McKay (KPF/Secondary Ruck)
Jed Lamb (Crumbing Forward)
Liam Jones (KPF)
Dillon Viojo-Rainbow (Rebounding Defender)
Kristian Jaksch (Floating Tall/KPF)
Liam Sumner (Outside Mid/Crumbing Forward)
Lachie Plowman (Floating Tall/KPD)
Jason Tutt (Outside Mid/ Crumbing Forward)
Mark Whiley (Inside Mid)
Clem Smith (Outside Mid/Crumbing Forward)
Jayden Foster (KPF)
David Cuningham (Outside Mid)
Charlie Curnow (KPF/Inside Mid)
Matthew Dick (Rebounding Defender)
Nick Graham (Inside Mid)
Andrew Phillips ( Primary Ruck/Secondary Ruck)
Daniel Gorringe (Backup Ruck/KPF)
Levi Casboult (KPF/Backup Ruck)
Ciaran Sheehan (Rebounding Defender)
Billy Gowers (Rebounding Defender/Inside Mid)
Ciaran Byrne (Rebounding Defender)
Andrew Gallucci (Crumbing Forward)
Jesse Glass-McCasker (KPD)
Matt Korcheck (Primary Ruck)
So we need to fill the following gaps:
Backs: 1 KPD, 1 Floating tall, 2 Rebounding Defenders (4)
Midfield: 1 Primary Ruck, 1 Backup Ruck, 3 Inside mids, 3 Outside Mids (8)
Forwards: 2 KPF, 2 crumbing forwards, 1 marking medium (5)
If we guess that Curnow, Cuningham, McKay, Silvagni, Graham, Plowman and Phillips meet the grade:
Backs: 1 KPD, 0 Floating tall, 2 Rebounding Defenders (3)
Midfield: 0 Primary Ruck, 1 Backup Ruck, 2 Inside mids, 2 Outside Mids (5)
Forwards: 0 KPF, 2 crumbing forwards, 0 marking medium (2)
And we then guess on Viojo-Rainbow, Byrne, Glass-McCasker, Sumner and Jaksch
Backs: 0 KPD, 0 Floating tall, 0 Rebounding Defenders (0)
Midfield: 0 Primary Ruck, 0 Backup Ruck, 2 Inside mids, 1 Outside Mids (3)
Forwards: 0 KPF, 2 crumbing forwards, 0 marking medium (2)
Which leads me to think our primary draft focus ought to be on midfielders and forwards with defenders as a secondary concern.