For the first time in a long long time I actually really like our backline. It seems well balanced, skilled and full of players who can both defend and attack. Rowe's improvement from a player who fumbled a lot and wasn't a great stopper to a strong and tall player with much surer hands has a lot to do with it as has getting Plowman. Simpson improving his defensive game to go with his already good attacking game, Docherty and Tuohy coming of age and getting Weitering have all really helped as has a solid more team based defensive structure and fitter more competitive midfield. Guys like White coming in and playing good footy gives is really good depth as does Byrne who really compliments that run and carry rebounding defence we have going. With Rowe playing like he is and Weitering we are actually not a key position player short just at the moment. Sheehan should provide us with greater medium sized defender depth as well. It's an area of the ground that we really have down pat which is great because I think we can really target forwards and mids with early picks now.
