Dont know contract situations but i reckon clubs will be into all of Ross RCD and CCJ if we dont give em a decent run at it.
Can we afford to lose these types? JR is 32 going on 33, TL is 28 going on 29 they are the only two genuine kpf we have and CCJ is the closest thing we have to a key fwd left on the list.
Caddy is a bust as a ball winning mid and taking a kids spot playing on the wing.
Cotchin is 31, Edwards 32 Martin 29 turns 30 in June, even Lambert turns 30 later this year. The last of our better mids Prestia is 28 turns 29 in oct but with his injury history you would have questions about his longevity.
The problem here is Caddy aside those mentioned are still our best mids and will and should be given games. To my thinking the way to get games into the likes of Ross and co is to drop a few of the role players, players we would win with or without. We all know who they are.
If we are to play two ruckmen imo i think this is the correct way to go, then it should be CC-J especially with Soldo out of the way. Fmd it solves the problem of taking our KPD's out of the backline to pinch hit and it might save Pickett from a serious injury. The key is to play CC-J as a second ruck who actually spends time forward. Before people say that makes us too top heavy, well we played both Nankervis and Soldo and both i would describe as ordinary forward and dinosaurs and we did pretty well with both in the team.
I even think the key talls in defense are a worry. Balta is young and looks set for a long career but Astbury is now 30 and has only ever been a foot soldier. We don't actually have anyone on the list atm who is READY to step in and play GENUINE KPD if Balta or Astbury get hurt.
Miller and Nyuon look prospects but dont have a game to their names and Garthwaite imo is not genuine KP size.
Just an opinion but fmd we are now real close to the point where the bullet has to be bit and we get games into genuine young mids and what decent young kpp's we have.
