O.Allen will be best 22 next year.
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O.Allen will be best 22 next year.
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Replacing whom?
Darling / Kennedy?
Barrass / Gov ?
Lad needs to learn to pinch hit in the ruck
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Can’t see us playing Kennedy/darling/Allen/Vardy in the same forward line
That’s old school “land of the giants”
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Nope, it's pretty close to the team we played several times earlier in the year with JK, Darling, Waterman and Lycett. Only Allen is a much better player than Waterman.
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Not sure he has the tank to run down to half back and lay tackles though
Get the feeling Allen/brander will be plugging gaps until JK retires
May be a spot down back though if Schofield goes by 2020 as well
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Tank looked alright to me, I'd be surprised if he plays less than 10-12 games next year.
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Well Tim Kelly and Rory Lobb resolve that, i dont know if we have picks to get both
had same thoughts...but playing on the fringe of a premiership side, in a top club, with a strong shot at deep finals footy over next few years, is far better than moving on perhaps?
also think he needs to lose some weight, too heavy-always looks like an injury waiting to happen!?
He's a great athlete, an A-grade ruckman, but does he really need to be the human wrecking ball?
keep him leaping, lean and fast...
He played with class in a Grand final, has a medal now, is ageing, so not too bad being 2nd fiddle. Even our depth is quality!
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B: Sheppard, Barrass, Cole
HB: Hurn, McGov, Duggan
C: Gaff, Redden, Kelly
HF: Allen, Darling, Rioli
F: Ryan, Kennedy, Cripps
R: Vardy, Shuey, Yeo
INT: Sheed, Jetta, Venables, Hickey/Roughead
Backline depth: Schofield, Watson, Nelson, Brander
Midfield depth: Hutchings, Ah Chee, Masten, Brayshaw, Petrucelle, Ainsworth, Rotham, Partington
Forward depth: Lecras, Waterman, Brander, J Cameron, M Allen
Ruck depth: naitanui who will take the new rucks recruit hopefully by the end of the year
Incredibly balanced 22 there, probably the most balanced eagles team there's ever been. Batting deep in terms of depth almost everywhere.
Definitely need to recruit a young ruck to develop along with the obvious stop gap til nic nat comes back.
Will recruit Cameron which will add a bit more depth to our small fwd stocks.
Probably also need to recruit a young KPD to develop as I can't see Brander playing defence long term, if at all unless through necessity.
HB: Hurn, McGov, Duggan
C: Gaff, Redden, Kelly
HF: Allen, Darling, Rioli
F: Ryan, Kennedy, Cripps
R: Vardy, Shuey, Yeo
INT: Sheed, Jetta, Venables, Hickey/Roughead
Backline depth: Schofield, Watson, Nelson, Brander
Midfield depth: Hutchings, Ah Chee, Masten, Brayshaw, Petrucelle, Ainsworth, Rotham, Partington
Forward depth: Lecras, Waterman, Brander, J Cameron, M Allen
Ruck depth: naitanui who will take the new rucks recruit hopefully by the end of the year
Incredibly balanced 22 there, probably the most balanced eagles team there's ever been. Batting deep in terms of depth almost everywhere.
Definitely need to recruit a young ruck to develop along with the obvious stop gap til nic nat comes back.
Will recruit Cameron which will add a bit more depth to our small fwd stocks.
Probably also need to recruit a young KPD to develop as I can't see Brander playing defence long term, if at all unless through necessity.
Adding Kelly would make life even tougher for Ah Chee
I can see next year as being similar to '18 with the push for younger players to get games. And a best 22-25 not seen until late year. Whose unlikely to crack a game at all?
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B: Sheppard Barrass Duggan
HB: Hurn Gov Jetta
C: Gaff Redden Hutchings
HF: Ryan Darling Cripps
F: Rioli Kennedy Venables
Fol: Vardy Shuey Yeo
Int: 2nd ruck Sheed Schofield Kelly
HB: Hurn Gov Jetta
C: Gaff Redden Hutchings
HF: Ryan Darling Cripps
F: Rioli Kennedy Venables
Fol: Vardy Shuey Yeo
Int: 2nd ruck Sheed Schofield Kelly
This...!
Will be interesting to see the training and preseason games, who emerges...
AhChee was tracking along okay, seemed a readymade mid, yet didn't get the call over the finals/GF,
with Gaff gone and team needing the skills of Sheed.
Maybe if Lecca goes...? Otherwise he's good depth.
That list, the potential, and depth is almost insane..imagine if we could keep a fit NN on the park, relatively uninjured for a season or two!
Schofield and Kennedy are getting old, they'll be starting 22 sooner than you think
he's already cut a weights session for an agility session, i think those fijian genetics probably play a factor
Karpany Parts and Allen probably wont be here next year
Rotham was probably getting close... might've played last year when we had JK and Darling out with Gov forward (v. Giants) but he was injured
Out of the rookies i'd say Watson will debut
that's what happened in his downtime, he really pushed himself..
but watching all that weight/muscle leap up in the air/crashing packs and falling earthward
gives me the jitters...waiting for something to go snap.(as speccy as it is)
it was funny to hear hickey say it was a scary prospect facing him each time..
