Hypothetical question.
If all were fit who would be in the team and who else should be dropped.
If need be at some stage we play every small forward we have and weed out those who will not take us anywhere.
For me if all were fit the players who are regulars and currently getting games would no longer be selected. They are
Pickett, McIntosh, Young, Graham, Mansell, Dow, Kosi, Short, Ralphsmith, and MRJ. Add to this list injured Prestia this has to be the end of the line so just get games into kids. None are going to take us forward and we should be aiming for some sort of upgrade on all of them.
If all were fit id be looking at something like this.
Vlastuin - Miller - Gibcus
Brown - Balta - Trezise/Smith
D Rioli - Taranto - Broad
Nankervis - Martin - Bolton
Campbell - Lefau - Coulthard
Cumberland - Lynch - Bauer/Ryan
Hopper - Baker - Ross - McAuliffe - Sonsie - Clarke - Banks.
Ill take it as hypothetical, but we would get our arse kicked each week. We would fail to kick a score and our backline would leak like a seive with that number of games in it. I'm not sure the experience would be any use for the kids either as most games would be junk time from about half time onwards when we're 5 - 10 goals down.
The last time i looked we have won one game!!!!! we are getting our arse kicked each week.
We do fail to kick scores that is from the start of the year. so if we play more kids whats the difference.
Yes it is an inexperinced back line. Its inexperienced because of injuries. The only question is do we keep playing short step poos his pants or do we give a kid Smith a game in his place who is currently in good form or do we give Maybe Trezise more games once he is back Do we stop playing Brown who is showing great promise he is not playing in any winning games so the expeience he is gaining is worthless is it.
why would we not shore up the defense with Balta, what you want to keep playing Grimes and Young. How poor do they have to get before we act.
Do we just persevere with McIntosh and Pickett or do we do something about their form and do something different.
What do you mean your not sure the experience will help them. One game of Afl would be worth 10 vfl games as far as experience goes. Games into them now would stand them in great stead for next year. We are not making finals again.
Will we get beat of course but like ive mentioned we are regularly getting beat anyway.
Is Miller Gibcus and Balta not our three best tall Defenders. That is the tall set up for many years to come if Miller can keep improving at the level.
Vlastuin is just about the only good medium defender we have.Broad on a wing plays defensive wing allowing Brown to play his old role. Rioli also can play defensive wing but you would like him to be our attacking wingman atm. any one would be better than McIntosh and Pickett on the wing.Are they the future do you want them playing there next year if not then play Trezise and Smith and Brown get games into them.
While i respect your opinion i think the 25 players i named are the best we have going forward. I expect a lot of losses but who cares, who gives a stuff if other supporters laugh we do what imo needs to be done.
This year will be year four since our last flag and its just my humble opinion we have not yet bottomed out.
The longer we delay hard decisions the longer we will stay near the bottom. Atm we could easily do a carlton, how long has it been for them or Essendon. How long did it take us last time.
