shintemaster
Brownlow Medallist
Been looking over our list changes and development in the last couple of years and it struck me that this appears to be the best balanced playing list we've had in a long time, potentially in Brad's entire time. Not saying this is our best 22 in that time, yet - I do think we've had stronger groups of say 24-25 players but I do think this is our strongest group up to around 30+ in Brad's time. It just seems that for the first time in a long time we have ready to go depth that is being pushed hard by developing players. There were years there where we had our core 4 mids and surrounded them with bit part players and square pegs in round holes.
When I talk about list balance I'm not necessarily talking about the medium term but just 2019. Probably the only two major vulnerabilities I see are with Brown & Goldstein. Brown in particular has no direct replacement but realistically, it’s pretty hard to ever have one that is proven and ready to go in a position like his - they're either going to be getting played in another position or they're going to be pushing to move to another club. Larkey if his body shape has further improved over the off season might be the one that was pushed there just for structure and development if required. Outside of these key players we look to have more puzzle pieces to shuffle around than we have since pre Scott. We’ll now see what Scott can do with a decent toolset or whether he has limitations that we need outside help to get past.
Be interested to hear others views on this purely looking at this in a short term 2019-20 at the most timeframe.
When I talk about list balance I'm not necessarily talking about the medium term but just 2019. Probably the only two major vulnerabilities I see are with Brown & Goldstein. Brown in particular has no direct replacement but realistically, it’s pretty hard to ever have one that is proven and ready to go in a position like his - they're either going to be getting played in another position or they're going to be pushing to move to another club. Larkey if his body shape has further improved over the off season might be the one that was pushed there just for structure and development if required. Outside of these key players we look to have more puzzle pieces to shuffle around than we have since pre Scott. We’ll now see what Scott can do with a decent toolset or whether he has limitations that we need outside help to get past.
Be interested to hear others views on this purely looking at this in a short term 2019-20 at the most timeframe.