McBean to play in 2015
Trade Vickery for a midfielder
i still firmly believe mcbean should play in defense.
especially when one hears the complaints about the way he plays. this kid showed his best potential as a junior playing in the backline. when i see him i think he could be a big upgrade on collingwoods lachlan keefe.
as far as fwds go thers a big yr coming up for all of vickery, griffiths and elton. a bad yr from all three could concievably see all three gone if they werent contracted. thats how brittle our tall so called fwd stocks are.
And a good year from all of those mentioned would mean are tall stocks are scintillating!
Your obviously a glass half empty sort of guy claw!
based on exposed form one would have to lean heavily to the side of them not making it. its just a straight down the line honest appraisal.
so in moving fwd how should we plan the list knowing there are big question marks over these 3. do nothing and hope all 3 come good, or take out some insurance just in case.
me i think the latter scenario is a must. if they fail it sets us back another yr and means the need for tall kpfs becomes even greater than it is.
even if they make it there is a need for a tom lamb/tyler kietel type of fwd on our list and one more kpf.
me i look at our tall stocks differently to most as far as categorising the type they are.
for me we have the following, ill call it category 1/ current structure.
2 kpf, riewoldt, and elton, todd elton is spending all of his time down back so maybe i shouldnt be classifying him a fwd at all. thats just one possibly two genuine kpf there should be 4 at differing stages of development.
3 fwd/rucks, mcbean, vickery, and griffiths. of the latter two to date neither has shown themselves to be very good fwds or ruckmen, the analogy ive used is jack of two trades master of neither.
they are very ordinary at both to date.
ive done this twice now and will do it one more time. utilising current nd nominations as examples id like to see our tall fwd stocks look like this structurally. it gives a good idea of type and quality i think we need to chase in this area. category 2/ list structure id like to see
kpfs - riewoldt 195/95. mccartin 194/95, elton 197/100, kietel 194/86
tall/fwds - lamb192/84, kietel 194/86. kietel could in time play kpf hence i have him in both categories for now.
ruckfwds - griffiths 200/102, mcbean 202/93, vickery 200/98,
we already have 3 ruck/fwds, im all for trading one out, what we need is quality kpfs and third tall fwds not these bitsers.
what is the better set up or category clearly category 2. it actually gives us a real chance of finding and actually establishing kpfs.
if we did this and similar in the backhalf plus 3 or 4 ruckmen it would leave 24 spots to target mainly mids and the needed specialist flankers which is plenty.
it also allows us to structure up properly both in the seniors and in the twos.
