its typical of us. we put our players up on pedestals as soon as they show anything. i suppose 32 yrs of almost exclusively mediocre players thru the door does that to ya.
seems to me with both gordon and lloyd we may have found some decent foot soldiers nothing more nothing less. thing is we need to play em all yr and likely all next yr to really see what we have.
it aint hard to look better than many of the glass half fulls who get regular games that in itself is a problem.
club desperately imo needs to address some real list weaknesses as far as key types of players go and over all quality.
i still believe we should go something like the following and find out what players can do instead of going round in circles doing the same wrong things over and over thinking something will magically change.
i actually think we are at a watershed moment where we can lick our wounds and do some hard yards and likely go backwards in the short term by getting games into kids and finding out about players. or we can continue to play the glass half fulls by the truckload and likely spend the next 5 - 10 yrs in the wilderness.
b/ morris - chaplin - rance
hb/ mcintosh - astbury - vlastuin/ dea/helbig/ or one of the many mids who have played back in deledio,ellis, conca, even lennon.
c/ deledio - martin - ellis
hf/ knights - griffiths - lennon
f/ lloyd - riewoldt - A edwards
r/ maric - cotchin, jackson.
int/ hampson - conca - miles - foley.
the need to find a 1v1 kpd is glaring. as is the need for a few pure tall forwards. pure mids of both types is also glaring as is the need to get a young ruckman or two on the list.
personally id be wanting a full INDEPENDENT review of the whole footy dept with recruiting list management a priority before i did anything.
