then theres the gaping holes in the list.
chronic shortage of decent mids both inside and out. the lack of both a kpf and a tall fwd. the lack of a back up ruckman, no sml fwd of note in fact not even a med fwd of note.
just one tall defender and the total lack of cover in the area. the lack of sml and med def who are well rounded and can provide both defence rebound and dont panic under pressure.
So we dont have Mids, inside or out, Kp forwards, back up ruckman, Small fowards, Med fowards, enough tall backs, capable med backs or small backs.
Looks like we need a list of 60 then to get all these extra players. Im not saying the the quality of all the players is top notch or that we shouldnt look at improving but really claw. There is a difference between how you see this list and how I do. Not every player will be top class player on any list, that's by shear definition. You don't rate anybody hardly and you don't get to the finals without more than half a dozen reasonable players. Going by the list above we only have about half a dozen. Its getting really old.
did i say we dont have. no i said we have a chronic shortage in all of the areas i listed.
have a look at the tall fwds we have and we dont have many, we could easily upgrade our kpf stocks with only riewoldt a top level player.
you can say the exact same thing in just about all areas.
take rance out of the backline and what top level tall defender is there. the simple answer is none.
do the rucks as well, we all saw what happened when maric went down. hampson in 8 yrs of footy sure as hell doesnt look like the answer. what we gunna rely on mcbean and vickery and griffiths to take over give me a break. what other top level ruckman do we have.
do i need to go on
what top notch sml fwd do we have. or medium fwd for that matter. we dont have any at all.
i wont go on ive said it all already.
we dont have topnotch players or to define that, and im not after a graders here, all i ask for is good to very good consistent reliable players and we just dont have em apart from the odd one in each area.
we dont need a bigger list we need to manage the numbers allowed better than we do.
ive said this a lot and it seems i have to keep on saying it.
imo the correct list set up is.
talls
4 kpds
2 tall defenders
4 kpfs
2 tall fwds
4 rucks of which 2 should be ruck fwds. thats a total 0f 16 tall players out of 44. and if searching for and developing talls it could be a couple more.
mids
18 mids which comprises inside, outside, and those much sought after mids who do both well.
flankers
well theres 12 spots l;eft on the list to to accomodate our needs here. smlfwds, running defenders, shut down defender etc etc. if your mids can perform well on the flanks you dont even need the 12.
ive said it often in some areas we have adequate numbers but lack the quality needed, for example do we really need 3 200cm below par ruck/fwds. in most areas though we dont even have the numbers.
every yr its the same i argue the lack of depth or quality depth and every yr people argue the point. well what happened this yr when we copped just a few injuries, i tell ya what happened it went to total poo.
