To be honest I'm a bit worried by the state of our list, which I never dreamed of saying this time last year. There is just to much of a gap between the NOW and the FUTURE and I don't see where the improvement is going to come from next season. Wingard and Gray couldn't possibly play any better. Boak is doing all he is capable of. Schultz and Monfries have hit the wall and I'm not sure how much longer before Westhoff reaches the same point. Broadbent and Ebert have been exposed as average footballers with average skills. Trengove moves like a 40 year old man, and both he and Carlile are injury prone- don't see that changing.
Room for improvement next season = Wines (solid but still hasn't reached potential), Hartlett (Who knows if he will ever reach his potential), Polec returning to the side, and making the Lobbe/Ryder combination click. Other than that we have a list of inevitable downhill skiers, most of which are some of our most important players, and a bunch of youthful fringe players being rotated in and out of the team. The key is for this youth (Wingard and Wines the obvious exceptions) to rise to the occasion before the likes of Schultz, Westhoff, Trengove, Carlile are past their best because they aren't going to be easy to replace in the short term, and judging by current trends I doubt we have much time to make that happen.