With our improvements to the list we should finish in the Top 18.
But then again you never know
But then again you never know
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We have three areas of weakness, ruck with Longer the sole experienced player.....injured.
Backline, Carlisle out for pretty much the year and Brown missing early...we will likely play Joyce as our KPD a 2 game veteran who hadn't picked up a footy 4 years ago.
Finally the midfield with Stuv, our only top line player, who is out indefinitely and Hanners who has been elite potentially not making it back to what he was before. His last 2 years have been on par with Armo at the Swans so can't really hope for improvement there. Leaves Seb and Steele to be the mainstays and hope like hell Grehsam and Billings can transition in there.
Our forward line looks our strength with multiple options and Bruce back and Paddy starting to look better, Lonie improving and Parker, Young and Kent all likely options.
Really hope we can stop the blow outs where we get our pants pulled down, how we lose is very important this year 8 - 10 wins with a good percentage Happy Days
Very harsh on Hanners 2017 form. Would very happy if he got back to that. 2018 form doesn't help us.
With Roberton returning, I can see with the experience of Geary, Savage & Brown steering Joyce & Battle in the right direction, we just might have a pretty formidable backline.
With Pierce’s enthusiasm in the ruck could keep him well in the game for at least a half the game & hopefully Marshall can man up for the rest of the game.
As for the midfield, there is no replacing Stuv but I think we just may have a star ready to stand up in Hunter.
Admittedly the pressure is on the young guys, but I can’t see why they won’t be able to stand the test.
*fingers crossed
I would be disappointed if we had less than 2 wins after the first 4 rounds. We have to beat GC really, if we dont then there is trouble. All Essendon, Freo and Hawthorn are missing important players and if we want a better year, are the type of teams we need to be beating. Surely we can upset against one of them.
None are easy games but if we lose them I will be hard to keep momentum. All of them are winnable if we play our best but all three of them would be favourites to win.
No but that form makes him about second best mid. Last years form makes him just better than dunstanThat's why I have him similar to Armo, his past form is good, recent form is poor. Both have been going backwards as they get more beaten down with injury. 2017 was okay for Hanners but he was not the dominant player he had been in 2016.
I reckon we are a big show in all 3
Methendon missing Hooker hurts them. They have also shown in rhe JLT that they're still a pretty one way running team. If we bring the pressure against them like we did against norph and don't let them run in waves we can upset them
I reckon on their bigfooty site they are saying we won’t have our best back and maybe not our best player and maybe not our potentially top 5 player
Freo have Fyfe and after that we are a close match across the ground IMO. It'll be hard over there and the umps will play their part but i don't fear them this year. Reckon our fwds can really do some damage against their defenders if we provide decent supply
Hawks are hawks. Titch out early will have given them time to re-jig but we tend to match up well against them. I don't think their depth is all that proven yet. Probably least confident of this one.
I honestly reckon we will be 2-2 with 3-1 not outside the realms of possibility
Hawks for me is the one I reckon we're the most likely to win out of those R2-4 games.I reckon we are a big show in all 3
Hawks are hawks. Titch out early will have given them time to re-jig but we tend to match up well against them. I don't think their depth is all that proven yet. Probably least confident of this one.
I honestly reckon we will be 2-2 with 3-1 not outside the realms of possibility
No but that form makes him about second best mid. Last years form makes him just better than dunstan
Hawks for me is the one I reckon we're the most likely to win out of those R2-4 games.
We've played well against them the last 3 years now, and were so close to beating them late last year, when they were on their way to a top 4 finish, but this year they're minus Mitchell- who is huge for them with their shallow midfield, now we could have Steele sit on JOM, and then who have they got in there?- and they seem to have other injuries adding up (Gunston, Birchall, Wingard and Howe in particular and of course Scully).
Reckon they'll drop back down out of the 8 again this year and be very beatable, especially at Marvel.
We'd want to have Stuv back by then of course tho, or we'll have a big hole in our own midfield.
It will take some Clarko genius to not have that happen I reckon.I think the Hawks will come back to earth too.
It will take some Clarko genius to not have that happen I reckon.
Their midfield is now probably just about the weakest in the league, unless Wingard plays in there most weeks. Can see some heavy tags in JOM's immediate future.
Harder draw for them too.
The outs aren’t a concern for mine. It’s not the cattle, it’s how we go about playing as a unit, as clique as that sounds. I reckon we’ve got the cattle to win 12 but you can only go on most recent events. Par is 6, I’d be pretty happy with 8.
I watched him a few times last year and he was terrible. He made Dunny look like Dangerfield. He was a shell of what he used to be. His game in the finals was his best game of the year by a long way, which because of the heavy conditions levelled the field. His break away used to be his biggest asset but he was so unable to create separation he was almost a liability. If I had to make a comparison it would be Luke Ball when he got hit bad with OP, he went from a star to ordinary very quickly. I hope we don't play him if he's as bad as last year, I would rather pump games into Clark or Acres.
So when 3 of the best 6 are out that doesn’t matter. Seriously. We don’t have enough stars as it is. Cattle obviously matters otherwise gc are as good as the tigers if they play the same system and we know they aren’t.