My favourite part of the melt-a-thon was suggesting that we have an aging backline and using the examples of tarrant, thompson, and williams. Yep, 24 year old Marley williams. Not to mention Tarrant is only 5 months older than their lord and saviour Rance.
In my opinion our best back 6 would be:
Marley - Tarrant - Nielson
EVW - Thompson - Wright
Average age: 25.53 (using footywire)
Now i don't follow Richmond intimately but their back 6 last week was:
Broad - Rance - Grimes
McIntosh - Astbury - Vlastuin
Average age: 25.17 years
(Richmond supporters will probably come in kicking and screaming and say Ellis plays back or something of that nature - well if that is the case and he swaps with Vlastuin or McIntosh it will increase the average age.
Now if i include our other listed defenders:
Durdin
Mullet
JMac
Hansen
Watson
Hibberd
Average age equals = 24.5
If i include Richmonds:
Bachelor (soon to be delisted)
Houli
Short
Hunt (soon to be delisted)
Markov
Ellis
Morris (soon to be delisted)
Garthwaite
Average age = 24.8
So not only do we have a younger backline but it will only decrease in age when we get rid of either hansen or thompson. The good thing about our list management is we have Nielson, Durdin, potentially McKay, and Watson developing to take over our key position players.
Richmond have Rance, Astbury and a bunch of third talls in grimes, mcintosh, garthwaite, and broad who could step up if needed. They are lucky that Astbury and Rance have stayed injury free this year. They currently have no developing KPD's.
But our backline is aging and our defenders are shit...
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