Batchelor/mcintosh is in competion imo with Grimes as the third tall.. Imo Astbury and elton are competing with Chaplin for a kpd spot.
What about a Rance, Astbury and Chaplin line up? With Rance or Chaplin playing 3rd tall? This is provided Astbury continues his short period of solid form
id like nothing more than to see rance play the third tall role but ffs chaplin and grimes cannot play on the big kpfs hence rance has to play kp. i prefer astbury over chaplin as the other kp and grimes over chaplin as third tall.
any way based on the games played last yr grimes played 19 and has been made a part of the leadership group. based on that he will play most games next yr.
chaplin played every game and wont be dropped and rance is the first defender picked each week. it atm leaves astbury the odd man out.
the only other option is to play all 4 of chaplin, astbury, rance and grimes. i cant see it. just too slow, and not enough run with some iffy disposal skills thrown in.
Was Astbury getting games over Grimes when they were both fit (and Rance)? Not sure if Grimes would of played 19 games if all were fit but who knows.
I thought Grimes had a bit of speed? Maybe not I'm not too sure but either way I agree you can't play all four although personally I'd rather have all four and Batch out
pretty sure we started the season with astbury,rance chaplin. rance missed from rnd 2 to rnd 6, and grimes took his spot until rance came back. .astbury went down rnd 10 ??? and grimes came back in.
i suppose we can expect all 4 to play significant number of games they are the only 4 real tall defensive options we have atm. not unless elton has a yr out of the box. mcintosh is a running defender.
personally id really like one more quality big bodied kpd thats why i was all for us going at frawley.
i think frawley rance and if astbury improves, it woud have been a good tall set up. it would have freed rance up to play third tall.
the hope is mcintosh improves significantly and a kid like menadue can play hb to provide pace run carry and skills.. id like an upgrade on steve morris as well but when it comes to shutting down sml/med fwds hes all we have atm.
