yeah be nice to have a list of 60 senior players
you only need 44. yes i get the sarcasm.
how many genuine mids does a list of 44 need to cater to game day, depth and develoment.
how mant genuine tall defenders should you have.
how many genuine talls
how many flankers specialist position players.
how many ruckmen.
its not hard in fact pretty basic questions which have been asked by me regularly. it seems not too many on here are prepared to answer or dont have an opinion on it.
to answer
6 tall forwards. 2 juniors, 2 development, 2 mature/vets riewoldt. elton. vickery, mcguane. need two.
6 tall defenders 2 juniors, 2 development, 2 mature/vets. chaplin, grimes, rance, darrou, mcintosh, astbury, griffiths and sorry have to say it possibly mcbean. to me thats at least 1 too many send one to the forward line if not two.
16 - 18 genuine mids as a minimum. depending on what flankers can do ie rotate in the midfield it could be more. will do the mids later.
4 ruckmen genuine ruckmen that is. imo a minimum. i prefer 5. 2 should be afl ready if not 3. 2 mature, 1 development, 2 junior or variations of this. maric, derickx, stephenson, possibly mcbean.
take ivan away and what do you have. definately one more long genuine prospect please.
4/5 specialist sml/med forwards 1 junior, 2 development, 1 mature/ vet. hopefully at least half can rotate thru midfield if need be. all need to be big bodied. nahas, edwards, edwards, petterd, ohanlon king mcdonough simon. clearly we have too many. clearly the quality is the reason we have so many we can cut 3 in this area especially the limited ones.
4/5 sml/med defenders. 1 junior, 2 development, 1 mature/vets. again hopefully half are capable of rotating thru the midfield. all need to be big bodied. morris, houli, batchelor, newman, verrier, dea, we could cut 2 here especially the ones who are limited in their roles.
that possibly leaves 2 spots for flexability needs and cover for areas where maybe you have 5 kids and 1 development player so you get a mature player to help.
as far as mids go do a reserve side having picked your senior team. then tell me how many genuine mids are there left, then tell me how many of quality. imo coburg, sorry long term development of mids at coburg well the numbers just are not there and neither is the quality or proper depth.
genuine mids at richmond
cotchin, foley, deledio, tuck, grigg, martin, knights, conca, ellis and vlastuin. thats 10 id have in my starting 22. but even some of these players can be questioned still if they are, or have become genuine mids.
it leaves imo
helbig, arnot, lonergan, jackson yuck, and possibly white. no i wont include white hes not an afl standard mid.
at vfl level nahas houli and king can play thru there but there is no way in the world you want to see them play in the midfield at richmond. it leaves mcintosh and mcdonough both have questions about weather they will become mids or be specialist players. atm for me ones a defender the other a sml forward.
i make it 13 all up genuine mids. we could easily do another 3 in fact we need to do another 3.
