would agree with all the plaudits being thrown at our mids. imo for 8 weeks now about 14 players have played out of their skins. but hello people the other 8 have been well the way they always are.
genuine mids - cotchin,deledio,martin needs a tank, foley, grigg, tuck conca and ellis learning the caper have all been really good in the main. but its no where enough.
it drops away dramatically with jackson sheesh, nahas, edwards houli king and yes newman all expected to rotate thru there.
we cant possibly ask too much more of the first group atm but sheesh the second group is the reason why we cant get over the line. good sides punish mediocrity. the real problem arises with what younger ones are in the reserves basically there are just two arnot and helbig and while i like the way both go about it there is no guarantee either will make it.
we have no where near enough mids. and we do lack for a couple more of real quality.
what we should be saying is our top 5 or so is up there with other clubs top 5 if not better. and it is, but it falls away people and it falls away dramatically.
can i ask who do we ask to step up if say just foley and cotchin get hurt. i know most will say well what if other clubs lose a few of their better mids thing is they drop away like us.
its the same problem with our tall defenders look at the situation we have with just grimes being out. depth and quality is what we must improve and a fair bit. look what happens if big ivan goes down sheesh that would bugger us we cant replace him.
depth depth depth depth and just a little more quality in most areas.
