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Finey just went over the Suns list and shitcanned it. Yes, they have a few injuries to their topliners at the moment - no ablett, no omeara, martin still an injury prone flyweight, and now with Harbrow also injured. They are actually going to struggle bigtime this year until those players come back on-line.
But as far as the list goes specifically, their two best mids are Ablett and Richetelli, who are both the wrong side of 30. Fineys point was there is an assumption that with so many low draft picks they have 10 or 12 elite players coming on, setting themselves up for world domination, but if you run the ruler over the players in the list, they dont really have any more genuine elite young players than most other teams - there are a lot of faceless players in that group who have been around for 3 or 5 years and havent achieved much. And it seems they have 'unrest' this year with the new coach - they arent actually progressing much from a gameplan/teamwork POV either.
Given the ammunition that Scott Clayton had to fire, I reckon he hasnt done such a good job. You could convincingly argue that GWS, starting behind them, will overtake them this year and has a greater number of memorable young names on its list, particularly mids.
Oe last point Finey made was the AFL's love children - amazing they both get to play the Saints and Melbourne as their first two games of the season - what were the odds. You have to laugh hard at the suns for getting done by both of those sacrificial lambs.
good for footy!
But as far as the list goes specifically, their two best mids are Ablett and Richetelli, who are both the wrong side of 30. Fineys point was there is an assumption that with so many low draft picks they have 10 or 12 elite players coming on, setting themselves up for world domination, but if you run the ruler over the players in the list, they dont really have any more genuine elite young players than most other teams - there are a lot of faceless players in that group who have been around for 3 or 5 years and havent achieved much. And it seems they have 'unrest' this year with the new coach - they arent actually progressing much from a gameplan/teamwork POV either.
Given the ammunition that Scott Clayton had to fire, I reckon he hasnt done such a good job. You could convincingly argue that GWS, starting behind them, will overtake them this year and has a greater number of memorable young names on its list, particularly mids.
Oe last point Finey made was the AFL's love children - amazing they both get to play the Saints and Melbourne as their first two games of the season - what were the odds. You have to laugh hard at the suns for getting done by both of those sacrificial lambs.
good for footy!

