I thought his form dropped off significantly after the bye. Seemed to tire and lose confidence and by the time the elimination final rolled around he was dropping uncontested marks, missing targets by hand and foot and coughing up the ball under pressure. It was his first year and so all of that can be expected and I’m confident we have a very good long term key position defender on our hands.
But in a thread titled ‘best 22 for 2023’ as in if every single player is fit for a one off must win game I have grimes, Tarrant, broad and balta ahead of him as key position defenders. That doesn’t mean he isn’t going to play any games as we all know it’s highly unlikely the 4 players I named manage to get through the season without an injury. Also who knows after another preseason, Gibcus could start the year in ripping form and go past the more senior players but for now based on last seasons form he’s behind them for me.
Hmm he played 18 games id say he is currently on a pretty even level with all of them.
FFS WE HAD A SKINNY UNDERSIZED KID AND HE DROPPED OFF AT THE END OF THE SEASON. ffs what about the upside.
Grimes is copping injuries and is 31, Tarrant is 34 basically Balta had a very ordinary year as well and that makes a few in a row and as a backman he has hardly performed despite the angle most here come from.
Potentially the best kpd we have is Gibcus and we already have 18 games into him inone season its absolute folly imo to not be looking for improvementand a potential 22 games for the year.
At some stage we have to back in the good kids we have over ageing declining players. It is totally crazy not to expect Gibcus to keep on improving.
