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Agree on Green. Specialist small forwards are back in vogue, now's not the time to be turfing the only player on our list who can fill that role effectively (well, at least the attacking part anyway).I hope we keep Green. We have a huge hole for that role and he still has a lot of potential. Give the new strength and conditioning coach a crack at him and we could have a real force. I thought this year was the first where he looked to have genuinely accepted his forward role and was working on the skills associated with that. Injury and condition inhibited him but he was nowhere near as bad as most on here seem to have concluded. Lack of defensive pressure was an issue but you could say the same for 21 other players on the park each week. New structures, new expectations could turn that around.
Gardiner re-signing is a bit of meh for me. Slow undersized defender who gives away silly frees and is outpositioned too often. Personally I cannot see him being in our side when we get back to the finals. Depth player.
Not so much on Gardiner. He's been hampered by injuries, but I'm hopeful that he can fill that Stratton/Morris/Patfull in between defender role for us. Maybe he won't reach those heights, but I think your assessment is a bit harsh- especially given that Frost is our only other pure lockdown defender at the moment.