I know are backline is pretty solid and all but just wondering if you guys see this as an area of concern?
FB - Vandeleur
T. Smith
Clancee
HB - Sutcliffe
A.Pearce
Suban
C - Sheridan
Neale
Hill
HF - DeBoer
Tabener
Crozier
FF- J. Simpson
Apeness
Walters
FOL - Clarke
Fyfe
Morabito
Int - Hannath
Grey
Ballard
Sub =
Wood
Best of Rest Duffy
Menegola
^ My 1990 or younger team.
Bolded = Don't feel comftorable with them playing for us in important games RIGHT NOW
Underlined = Playing out of position
Clearly Our Backline has a few issues, with Sutcliffe being the only player that you could say is guaranteed to perform to an acceptable standard most weeks + he is more of a rebound defender than a lockdown defender.
Clancee plays his best footy as a defensive midfielder IMO and Suban plays best in the middle or forward more.
Although A.Pearce has shown ability and talent there are no guarantees he will be an AFL level player, you never know until they prove it in a game.
Smith has shown less than Pearce and will fight hard but again has no guarantees of being a capable AFL Full-Back. Then your backline looks more like this
IMO Pearce should be playing as a third/fourth tall defender and not as a CHB (Johnson type role)
Vandeleur has given nothing so far (Not saying he wont make it) to suggest hell be a good AFL player.
To me this is a real area of weakness and whilst we should draft midfielders and possibly another KPF in the draft ... we desperately need a lock down small defender and maybe another lock-down KPD (Mcpharlin type, CHB not FB)
then your backline would look more like this :
FB - A.Pearce
T. Smith
Lockdown Small
HB - Sutcliffe
Athletic KPD
Clancee
Although still unproven. we at least have a back 6 playing in positions they are suited to.
Any ideas for potential recruits in these positions??
Edit - didnt post as planned (Layout), but hopefully u can make sense of it