Beyond Blue
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- Jun 25, 2021
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How do our players compare to the top end at Melbourne.
Jones - May
Weitering - Lever ?
Saad - Salem ?
Stocker - Bowey
Docherty - Hibberd ✔
Plowman - Petty
our backline compares really well
TDK - Gawn
Cripps - Viney
Walsh - Oliver ?
Kennedy - Petracca
Curnow - Brayshaw ?
O’Brien/Newnes - Langdon
a lot of losses here. But TDK is getting better. Cripps had a poor year while Walsh will go past Oliver eventually. Add Cerra instead of Curnow and we will start to get closer to breaking even.
McKay - Brown
Curnow - McDonald
Honey - Pickett
Owies - Fritsch
Mcgovern - Harmes ?
Fisher - Neal-Bullen
another loss overall but Curnow, honey and McGovern should improve next season. Fishers eat is better than Neal-Bullen but will we see it.
Melbourne’s bench consists of fit two way running role players and a second ruck. Players like Dow, Fogarty, Williams, Silvagni, Williamson and Gibbons are our equivalent which are better than Melbourne’s hands down. Silvagni probably harshly done by not starting over mcgovern/Newnes or Fisher.
our list management has a few holes for 2022. It can be fixed pretty easily in my opinion.
Number 1 - keeping our players on the field with full uninterrupted preseasons
Number 2 - adding Cerra, hewett and a second ruck
Number 3 - a proper game plan that stops exposing our strong backline.
The last one should have huge upsides in all three lines and make us a 5-6 goal better team.
It’s always hard to do these comparisons, so whilst I appreciate you went to the effort, you simply cannot line up all positions across the field (Harmes is nothing like McGovern, nor are Owies and Frisch alike), and in any event the Dees are far superior in pretty much every aspect of playing as a team to us that the comparison of individual talent is almost a mute point.
Finally even when we look at it from individual talent perspective it’s very subjective, for example I think Luke Jackson is already better than TDK, Angus Brayshaw is a lot better than Ed and as good as Weitering and Jones are they I do think May and Lever are the better combo.