I can see Siddle not playing in two years. We have Cummins, Pattinson, Starc and another kid ready to go, so the depth is there. Our batting stocks is still a worry depth wise. Wade or Payne, maybe Bailey if he can lift to the standard required. I reckon that's where the next captain comes from.
Starc is overrated, Cummins and Pattinson are guns though. Plus you need the one steady workhorse bowler, which is where Siddle might hold his spot, only Jackson Bird looks likely to take that from him.
I consider that our batsmen where found out by England. Our tail was good enough to hang around and one batsmen would get a hunderd. But the lower order never really set up a victory without needing the tail.
If the English tail had hung around and the English batsmen had had the confidence (or lack of undeserved arrogence) to trust their tail then maybe they would have had more hunderds themselves.
Agreed (just realised that I didn't type what I meant to above

). It's a bit of both with the lower order, the 6th wicket partnerships were huge, and aside from Brisbane, it was always Haddin and
one of the batsman who did the first innings grunt work to get the total up before the tail batted on.
I'd say going to SA, only Clarke, Haddin, and now Rogers and Smith (two real good first innings centuries has me convinced) are solid, Warner and Watson remain iffy, and Bailey has to go.
Bell should have been moved to 3 much earlier.
The Poms are burning Root in a very similar way to how we've burnt Hughes.