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How long is our Premiership Window open?
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Where's this idea that Darling had a shocker come from? I don't think the supposed squib was a squib on the replay.
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Did a couple of silly things but played ok I reckon. People like picking on the bad stuff though.
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I think its very much open, even without necessarily having a big win over the trade period and landing a mid.
We do need to approach the start of the season with a take a step back to go forward mindset though and genuinely try and improve the hard way instead of picking the same cooked veterans week in and week out.
The reason I'm optimistic is basically 2fold:
Reason 1,
I don't buy into the our list isn't good enough stuff. When we play our best football we're good enough to beat any side both at home and on the road as has been proven in the last 2 years. How many other teams have 32.5 wins from 44 over the past 24 months? The list is good enough, every list has strengths and weaknesses and our weaknesses are not insurmountable if the team is playing at its best. Playing at its best is something it doesn't do enough on the big stage and thats mental and preparation and coaching stuff that can be fixed without having to change the list. I'm not saying we don't need to change our best 22, we do. But we can draw on available talent to improve. The home and away season 2017 without Nick should be treated like a structural rebuild with veteran players such as Le Cras, Masten, Wellingham, replaced by youth and Priddis played of the bench.
Reason 2,
Tom Barrass. Stood up in a final thursday night and probably outdid Gov. Now Gov has his AA jumper as a defender its time to move him forward. Barrass and Scholfield can anchor that back line and we keep 1 of Brown/McKenzie for depth- preferably Brown given his more depthness nature.
If Simpson changes our best 22 with a big emphasis on the future instead of the past the side can improve drastically just with what we have. Is it enough to challenge for a Premiership with GWS in its window and Sydney probably there abouts too? Maybe not. If Nic makes a return for finals it could certainly make things interesting though. At the least I think we can certainly be a better side in 2017 with Gov forward and Barrass taking his place, it could be massive and make us easily the most dangerous forward line in the comp if Darling fires as a 3rd tall and Jetta gets to use his skills as a genuine small crumbing forward [at Le Cooked's expense of course]
2017 Starting lineup:
F: Jetta, Kennedy, Cripps
HF: Hill, McGovern, Darling
C: Duggan, Hutchings, Gaff
HB: Shep, Barrass, Nelson
B: Butler, Schofield, Hurn
Fol: Giles, Sheed, Shuey
Int: Priddis, Yeo, Redden, Cole
Starting Giles in the ruck because I assume Lycett will miss the start of the season due to PCL surgery. Masten, Wellingham, Le Cras et al can play if they force their way into the side at the expense of the younger players, not the other way round. Hutchings in there to play a niche role as a defensive mid. Nic to come back for the finals series at the expense of Giles. Not interested in Lobb anymore because you don't bring a player over just to cover half a season in the ruck, beyond that he's just another quality tall in a side full of all-australian key position players that still needs an A grade mid. If we can't land a truly elite mid via trade then trade for a top 5 draft pick and get a proper prospect not just lazily try and use our late first round pick, there is a difference between pick 1-5 and pick 15-20 I don't care what anyone says.
We do need to approach the start of the season with a take a step back to go forward mindset though and genuinely try and improve the hard way instead of picking the same cooked veterans week in and week out.
The reason I'm optimistic is basically 2fold:
Reason 1,
I don't buy into the our list isn't good enough stuff. When we play our best football we're good enough to beat any side both at home and on the road as has been proven in the last 2 years. How many other teams have 32.5 wins from 44 over the past 24 months? The list is good enough, every list has strengths and weaknesses and our weaknesses are not insurmountable if the team is playing at its best. Playing at its best is something it doesn't do enough on the big stage and thats mental and preparation and coaching stuff that can be fixed without having to change the list. I'm not saying we don't need to change our best 22, we do. But we can draw on available talent to improve. The home and away season 2017 without Nick should be treated like a structural rebuild with veteran players such as Le Cras, Masten, Wellingham, replaced by youth and Priddis played of the bench.
Reason 2,
Tom Barrass. Stood up in a final thursday night and probably outdid Gov. Now Gov has his AA jumper as a defender its time to move him forward. Barrass and Scholfield can anchor that back line and we keep 1 of Brown/McKenzie for depth- preferably Brown given his more depthness nature.
If Simpson changes our best 22 with a big emphasis on the future instead of the past the side can improve drastically just with what we have. Is it enough to challenge for a Premiership with GWS in its window and Sydney probably there abouts too? Maybe not. If Nic makes a return for finals it could certainly make things interesting though. At the least I think we can certainly be a better side in 2017 with Gov forward and Barrass taking his place, it could be massive and make us easily the most dangerous forward line in the comp if Darling fires as a 3rd tall and Jetta gets to use his skills as a genuine small crumbing forward [at Le Cooked's expense of course]
2017 Starting lineup:
F: Jetta, Kennedy, Cripps
HF: Hill, McGovern, Darling
C: Duggan, Hutchings, Gaff
HB: Shep, Barrass, Nelson
B: Butler, Schofield, Hurn
Fol: Giles, Sheed, Shuey
Int: Priddis, Yeo, Redden, Cole
Starting Giles in the ruck because I assume Lycett will miss the start of the season due to PCL surgery. Masten, Wellingham, Le Cras et al can play if they force their way into the side at the expense of the younger players, not the other way round. Hutchings in there to play a niche role as a defensive mid. Nic to come back for the finals series at the expense of Giles. Not interested in Lobb anymore because you don't bring a player over just to cover half a season in the ruck, beyond that he's just another quality tall in a side full of all-australian key position players that still needs an A grade mid. If we can't land a truly elite mid via trade then trade for a top 5 draft pick and get a proper prospect not just lazily try and use our late first round pick, there is a difference between pick 1-5 and pick 15-20 I don't care what anyone says.
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