Just to change the mood and to add something a little more positive. Regardless of injuries, we can chuck up a number of names that can enter this side throughout the year: Foley, Grimes, Petterd, Stephenson, White, Vlastuin, Knights, Arnot. Think I've missed a couple but looks like we're finally batting past 22.
All those players were here last season bar Stephenson (very average player), Picky.R (average player), Knights (struggles to get on the park and has struggled with form lately) and Tigger (first year player). I think our young players improvement will improve the depth more than some of our prize recruits. Post probably sounds negative but just trying to look at things both ways. Knights & Petterd could end up being decent recruits which would help. The Coach pays no attention to pre-season though 
I was going to give the blokes like Vlastuin and Knights a different heading like 'optimistic unknowns'
but the list then seemed too slim so I just lumped them together. I guess I was tying to point out that the named team isn't
bad and there still guys to come in, also blokes to cover a handful of injuries. Really agree that the improvement (if there is any) will come from the newbs. But realistically who are we likely to see this year besides Vlastuin, Elton and Arnot? I really hoping the immediate improvement comes from guys like Conca, Batchelor and Vickery to stand up so we can have 10'ish unarguably good players instead of just 4 or 5. Was going to add this in the original post but just CBF at the time but you called me out
I just think now though that we have 27 or 28 actual players we can play every week (fitness pending).
