cant be accused of being inconsistent.
its the kind of structure that has constantly won premierships over the last god knows how many yrs. its not hard to look at what good sides have done well and learn from them.
have always said if you need 8 talls on game day you need another 8 in the twos mimicking what you do.
you need about 10 12 who are capable of playing at the level when form and injury hits in each area. one of our problems atm is we have just 5 or 6 who perform consistently at the required level.
16 talls on your list has always been a minimum for me.im inclined to go with a project ruck or key forward as well.
its the same for mids you go with on average 9 to 10 genuine mids every week. a few may perform flanking roles but they are mids first and formost. look at us conca,cotchin,ellie,foley, grigg,jackson,martin, vlastuin and tuck. to me its common sense you try to mirror this in the twos. its certainly something we have failed to do at coburg.
it leaves 4 or 5 places in your team for specialist roles shutdown med defender like morris sml defender houli newman a sml forward medium forwards edwards king ohanlon etc mirror this and you need about 8 of these types all up.
on forwards hawthorn went with 2 ruckmen and 3 tall forwards. but they were in the enviable position of having two of those talls franklin and gunston who move like medium sized flankers.
imo the tall player type we lack is a gunston. we have astbury jack vickery, elton, mcbean hampson griffiths all 195cm or more the type we dont have is gunston, for me a player like jon marsh would compliment our forward structure enormously if we were to take him in the nd. 191cm super quick and versatile. its what we are screaming out for.
