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With Brett Deledio's average performance in the first round of finals, I heard two names floated as potential ins: Steve Johnson and Ryan Griffen.
Steve Johnson is a noted finals performer, but was dropped because his form was unspeakably poor. The other two have serious question marks about their performances in finals and are probably more washed up than Johnson.
Mumford also stunk it up quite badly and may not get up for the semi final, being replaced by Dawson Simpson.
I wondered to myself: are these really the choices they have?
Having a look at their list, there are an awful lot of players who are essentially offcuts from other teams. In addition to the named three, I count Reid, De Boer, Mzungu as blokes who've gotten games this year and were dumped by other clubs.
Of their good players from other clubs, Mumford and Shaw were also offloaded by their original clubs due being surplus to requirements.
With the amount of talent GWS have at their disposal, why is the discussion about which long past their best player should come in for another play long past his best? This seems like the kind of thing that clubs on their way down have to confront.
Steve Johnson is a noted finals performer, but was dropped because his form was unspeakably poor. The other two have serious question marks about their performances in finals and are probably more washed up than Johnson.
Mumford also stunk it up quite badly and may not get up for the semi final, being replaced by Dawson Simpson.
I wondered to myself: are these really the choices they have?
Having a look at their list, there are an awful lot of players who are essentially offcuts from other teams. In addition to the named three, I count Reid, De Boer, Mzungu as blokes who've gotten games this year and were dumped by other clubs.
Of their good players from other clubs, Mumford and Shaw were also offloaded by their original clubs due being surplus to requirements.
With the amount of talent GWS have at their disposal, why is the discussion about which long past their best player should come in for another play long past his best? This seems like the kind of thing that clubs on their way down have to confront.

