Preview 2020 Player Previews

[true blue19]

Newnes is far more than a depth player, you don't play 100 plus games in a row to be depth. I'm not sure where he fits in our best 22 but he adds experience and leadership to a young side.

 

[Arr0w]

Not really a matter of if with Willo, just when and that could be very soon

 

[thylacine60]

christ almighty I hate the idea of luck getting us ahead but for the love of mike! any risk we cop a break one year? well mike? well?

 

[true blue19]

Ramsey looks to be a possible Murphy replacement. That'll give him time to develop his game as a versatile midfielder with pace. I doubt we will see him in 2020 but I'm excited to see him line up.

 

[true blue19]

Not really a matter of if with Willo, just when and that could be very soon

The only if will be his body. I'm hoping that 2020 is his year.

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[Arr0w]

Warrior

 

[Arr0w]

Will debut this year and might be as early as round 1

 

[Arr0w]

Kid has some spunk, touch of class, while still getting his hands dirty

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[zepender]

Bang on. He's the forgotten defender along with Docherty.

A lock for our starting backline. Will be interesting to see how he's used this season.

Was watching some of our games from last season the other week (I know - glutton for punishment). Marchbank REALLY stuck out to me as a marking presence in the Collingwood game. Took 9 really damaging marks - seemed like he was perfectly positioned inside 50 just about every time. I think that's probably close to his best, and would be a great ceiling for him to reach. I'll admit I've never seen him as a great wing player but I reckon as a marking presence in the backline, we could do much worse.

 

[zepender]

Underrated by far too many in the comp much less in our own ranks. Walk-up start week in and week out. Just a shame he's 30 now, wish we'd had this bloke a couple of years earlier in his career as well.

 

[thylacine60]

another adelaide gift via glenferrie..........

 

[thylacine60]

Underrated by far too many in the comp much less in our own ranks. Walk-up start week in and week out. Just a shame he's 30 now, wish we'd had this bloke a couple of years earlier in his career as well.

post adelaide delisting:

Curnow returned to Victoria, and signed up with Box Hill in the VFL in 2009.[5] Curnow's 2009 season was solid, but his 2010 season was exceptional, and he was consistently Box Hill's best player. His season was cut short when he broke his leg in Round 13, missing the Hawks' last eight games; nevertheless, he had already polled enough votes to win the Box Hill best and fairest (the Col Austen Trophy),[6] and he finished third in the J. J. Liston Trophy, after holding a comfortable lead at the time of his injury.[7] Curnow played a total of 33 senior games for Box Hill during his two years at the club,[8] and also played one representative game for the VFL.

 

[true blue19]

Philp looks like an exciting young player and I can see him playing games this year. Looks to be a very similar player to Dow and need to develop there decision making.

 

[true blue19]

Curnow has been our work horse, someone that never stop working and never gives up. He's in our best 22 come round 1 but for the development of our team. Someone needs to step up and put pressure on his spot, is that Stocker, Kennedy, JSOS or who?

 

[true blue19]

It's a surprise Honey made it to the rookie draft. Which is luck for us, as we have a highly talented but raw player. I can see him playing games this year but not a lot.

 

[true blue19]

Is BSOS Jones replacement? Jones is 29 and has at least 3 years left. Which would put BSOS at 22 to 23 and probably at the right age to step up and become the full back of this century. He's 196cm but only 87kg so over the next couple of preseason needs to about 10kg to really have the size to shut down the big key forwards.

 

[therubbernub]

Thanks to the guys at Blue abroad who have done an excellent job in reviewing our players and especially the new recruits. But having watched some of the Poms analytics corner on the other teams, it seems to me that there is a fair amount of talent coming from this draft. It may not have had the top 10 of last year, but it seems like the talent ran pretty deep. To think that we got Kemp where we did and then Philp, amazes me. And when Honey shows some good signs as a Rookie pick- it all adds up to a bumper year for draftees

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

Hang on....what happened to #38....FINBARRRR!!!!!!

 

[true blue19]

Gibbons got better as the season when on and I see him as a 18 to 25 player. So either just in our just out of the 22. If he's in the team come round 1 it'll be up to him to stay there. He's a bit of a blue collar player and I can see the comparisons to Ed because they both never give up. I'm excited to see how he develops with the team.