ok i can tell you've all been sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for my team
, so here it is : remember this is the team i'd like to see selected in Round 22 off the back of form.
Shane Tuck and Andrew Raines were my first targets. Sorry to say but i think for all their strengths their cons outweigh their effectiveness.
Tuck, while a good getter of the ball inside still continues to sky the ball and turn the ball over around the ground through bad decision making and/or delivery.
OUT: Tuck IN: COUGHLAN
Rainesy has no lateral game of any kind and is simply not a footballer. If his name wasnt Raines, i very much doubt he would even be on that field.
OUT: Raines IN: CASSERLY
If you think those first two are crap decisions on my behalf then you wont like the next.
OUT: Petiffer IN: MORTON
Told you. Wont happen i know but its still a move i'd like to see. Mitch Morton is a class act and i hope will eventually take Petts spot in the side. Why? because he will eventually offer two important things that Petts doesnt have. Foward defnsive pressure and another classy midfielder availiable for rotation. Simple decision really.
And what about this one : OUT: Johnson IN: POLO
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Yup, another that simply wont happen but... We all know about Jono. They're both similar players except one is older, slower and has shocking footskills even under no pressure... oh yeah and he has played in two winning grand finals. He wasnt by any stretch of the imagination pivotal in either but still he was there as a spritely (some would say, lucky) young player. Polo is an enigma in my books. He has an incredible way of being a super scrooge. You'll find it incredibly hard to get the ball off Mr Scrooge. He's also very versatile, a great tagger and has a huge engine to boot. His upside is a million times that of Jono's and the sooner we start thinking fresh, the quicker we'll start going places.
Alex Rance is a player i'd love to come on in his first year. Of all the juniors he's the one i want to click quickly. He offers alot of run, strength, height and agility and has very good disposal. I've penned him in for the bench.
Cotch is in there as well. Lets hope by round 22 both Cotch and Rance are in the side, if not, no big deal theres still plenty of time but once again in an idela world...
I think my team reflects less turnovers all over the ground, which is where i think we are suffocating. Tambling, Polak and Graham are my iffy choices. I hope they all come on this year otherwise it will be very dissapointing but if they do it gives the side a great look. As for Mcmahon...pfft.
So my Round 22 Team i hope would look something like this :
Brown Deledio Edwards
Richo Patto Morton
Connors Polo Tambling
Newman Bowden Polak
Moore Thursfield King
Simmonds Foley Coughlan
Graham, Casserly, Cotchin, Rance.
fire away...
