- May 6, 2007
- 39,631
- 23,298
- AFL Club
- Essendon
- Other Teams
- Tottenham Hotspurs, Melbourne Vixen
At the end of 2011 we had the following ruck and KPP players on the list (in order of number in case anyone wonders):
Neagle - F
Gumbleton - F
Pears (arguably) - D
Hurley - F/D
Hille - R
Carlisle - F/D
Steinberg (arguably) - F (played forward in his first year in the VFL and was the leading first year goal kicker)
Hooker - D
D. Daniher - F/D
Ryder - R/D/F
Fletcher - D
Bellchambers - R
Crameri (arguably) - F
Jenkins - R/F
I understand your frustration but I am not sure what the alternative was supposed to be.
- Neagle was on his way out
- Gumbleton spent more time in the work cover room than the injury room.
- Hille was on his last legs and no forward planning was done to upgrade the ruck order.
- Crameri was never a KPP as much as we all thought he was.
- Darcy Daniher was another injury proned that we held onto.
- Jenkins traded was again our own mis management.
That is 6/14 guys you listed we already knew what we had.
The only ones we couldn't really do anything about were Pears and the horrific number of injuries he was going to sustain and Ryder wanting to leave last year.
So knowing we were on the back foot already with 6 of our talls and we've done nothing to rectify it in recent drafts.