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I’ve been watching and playing footy for a long time now and am of the opinion that to win a premiership a team has to have at least 14 players who are champions.
By ‘champion’ I mean somebody who can do something special to win or save a game. For example look at the team back in 1997, we had the 14 then and could have won the grand final, Gone are champs like Wynd, Hudson, Liberatore, Romero, Cook, Cameron, Winmar, Montgomery and others like Dimmattina who have fallen from form.
I look at today’s team and try to find the 14 players necessary to put us into September but can find only 11.
1. Luke Darcy
2. Brad Johnson
3. Chris Grant
4. Scott West
5. Nathan G. Brown
6. Rohan Smith
7. Daniel Bandy
8. Steven Kretiuk
9. Matthew Croft
10. Daniel Giansiracusa
11. Robert Murphy
So who are the other 3 likely to step up this year?
I wouldn’t pick any of the following:
Patrick Bowden
Paul Dimattina
Nathan Eagleton
Simon Garlick
So out of this list pick me 3 players who are going to rise to the status of champion.
Scott Bassett
Shane Birss
Nicholas Bruton
Brent Colbert
Daniel Cross
Cameron Faulkner
Lindsay Gilbee
Mitchell Hahn
Ryan Hargrave
Brian Harris
Ben Harrison
Kieran McGuinness
Jordon McMahon
William Minson
Brad Murphy
Marcus Picken
Sam Power
Matthew Robbins
Wayde Skipper
Tim Walsh
Patrick Wiggins
Cameron Wight
Besides the 14 champions the other 4 have to be reasonably good. have we got another 4?
By ‘champion’ I mean somebody who can do something special to win or save a game. For example look at the team back in 1997, we had the 14 then and could have won the grand final, Gone are champs like Wynd, Hudson, Liberatore, Romero, Cook, Cameron, Winmar, Montgomery and others like Dimmattina who have fallen from form.
I look at today’s team and try to find the 14 players necessary to put us into September but can find only 11.
1. Luke Darcy
2. Brad Johnson
3. Chris Grant
4. Scott West
5. Nathan G. Brown
6. Rohan Smith
7. Daniel Bandy
8. Steven Kretiuk
9. Matthew Croft
10. Daniel Giansiracusa
11. Robert Murphy
So who are the other 3 likely to step up this year?
I wouldn’t pick any of the following:
Patrick Bowden
Paul Dimattina
Nathan Eagleton
Simon Garlick
So out of this list pick me 3 players who are going to rise to the status of champion.
Scott Bassett
Shane Birss
Nicholas Bruton
Brent Colbert
Daniel Cross
Cameron Faulkner
Lindsay Gilbee
Mitchell Hahn
Ryan Hargrave
Brian Harris
Ben Harrison
Kieran McGuinness
Jordon McMahon
William Minson
Brad Murphy
Marcus Picken
Sam Power
Matthew Robbins
Wayde Skipper
Tim Walsh
Patrick Wiggins
Cameron Wight
Besides the 14 champions the other 4 have to be reasonably good. have we got another 4?

