Purple_Turtle
Stockholm Syndrome
- Oct 12, 2019
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Presuming we wipe out the guys 27+ on our list what does our B/22 look like, presuming the younger ones have hit the ceilings we can reasonably expect them to?
There's been some doubts raised over how the rebuild is going, so I thought this might be a fun exercise to see what pieces we've been accumulating and what we are expecting from them. This is the best I can come up with regarding the players we currently have on the list:
FB: Hughes, Pearce (c), Duman
HB: Young, Logue, Ryan
C: Aish, Valente, Acres
HF: Sturt, Hogan, Serong
FF: Henry, Cox, Switkowski
R: Darcy, Tucker, Brayshaw
I/C: Blakely, Banfield, Cerra, Watson
Some notes:
There's been some doubts raised over how the rebuild is going, so I thought this might be a fun exercise to see what pieces we've been accumulating and what we are expecting from them. This is the best I can come up with regarding the players we currently have on the list:
FB: Hughes, Pearce (c), Duman
HB: Young, Logue, Ryan
C: Aish, Valente, Acres
HF: Sturt, Hogan, Serong
FF: Henry, Cox, Switkowski
R: Darcy, Tucker, Brayshaw
I/C: Blakely, Banfield, Cerra, Watson
Some notes:
- Cox goes forward because he's a swingman and we have slightly more young KPDs I rate on our list then forwards. I do like what he's produced as a defender though, and I'd be more comfortable using him as a KPD and letting Logue be the third tall forward. We'll need Dixon or O'Reilly to show something as KPFs or to draft one for that.
- Our small forward stocks aren't brilliant. Henry hasn't played a game yet, Switta struggles in the goalkicking department, and Banfield (despite this forum generally not rating him) makes it in as a pressure forward by default. In this team Serong has to play a Fwd/Mid role to have 7 players to rotate through the forwardline.
- Our outside midfield stocks when you include younger players like Giro and Frederick aren't terrible, but obviously these players haven't showed themselves to be AFL level yet. Cerra makes it in this team on the bench to rotate through that wing spot, and Aish and Acres both there because they're only 24 and have runs on the board as AFL players.
- Outside of our KPDs Ryan and Young have both shown serious potential (in the case of Ryan having some significant runs on the board) as players who can intercept and then rebound out of defense. Duman and Hughes are the established younger (non-KPD) defenders, whereas Watson pips Pina for that I/C spot due to recent claims that he isn't far off an AFL debut.