Re: Re: Re: Skipper?
Originally posted by The Doctor
If he plays only 1 or 2 games that would be a very disappointing return. He is a very good young player and given our dearth of talls we should be aiming to get anywhere between 8-14 games from him this year even if he spends much of it on the bench . He looks the most likely imo to step up quickly.
I do not believe he would be in our original season plans because we appear to have Wiggins and Bandy set as key forwards and players like Croft and Harrison as possible third talls.
In defence we have Grant, Bassett, Croft, Harrison, Kretiuk and Hargrave as tall options plus Harris would be more likely to be used as another key defender if required than Skipper.
Bruton would currently be the prefered back-up ruckman.
I'm all for giving Skipper senior games if his form for Werribee warrants it but at the moment there would be a few players ahead of him. He really needs to get some game under his belt for Werribee. I am also not normally a fan of nursing an inexperienced player on the interchange bench when they could be getting substantial game time elsewhere unless the finals is out of reach.