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« Last post by the claw on Yesterday at 05:49:22 PM »
With a lot of optimism about the kids we have the logical question should be who do the younger blokes replace sort of like for like.
Im looking at older players who played at least 11 games.
Mids
Prestia 12 - Lalor 10. Makes Prestia redundant. Pace and power added
Ross 23 - McAuliffe 5. Has far better attributes and addresses a few mid field weaknesses.Pace and power and hurt factor physically added.
Sonsie 16 - Smillie 0. Big upgrade imo ball use size and an ability to get his hands on the ball and no squibbing.
Dow 11 - Cumming 0. Big upgrade again a complete opposite in many ways pace power aggression hurt factor with ball and can go fwd.
Wing
McIntosh 23 retired did not play exclusively wing this year. Clarke would be in contention if not for injury.
HRS 12 - Campbell 23 has attributes for the role Hugo can only dream of.
Trezise 16 - Retschko 0. Trezise is no winger imo lacking in too many areas for the gig.
HB
Broad 22 - Brown 23 Time for Brown to take over the role he has done a good apprenticship.
Short 15 - Grlj 0. This is a no brainer imo
Possibly three others in contention Banks, Smith and Trezise making Shorts position almost untenable.
Forwards
Green 19 - Algar 3. Kid looks a gun could Green have played 19 more underwhelming games.Statistically horrible year for green and they backed up what we saw
Rioli 13 - Hotton. Who in their right mind would pick Rioli over Hotton.Rioli like Green was statistically horrible mostly backing up what we saw.
We must find general forwards who can at least impact the scoreboard regularly.
I think when you look at the games these blokes got this year and how poor they were in the main and you add in there deficiencies then there is a good case for the kids to be played and a few role changes made.
To me something like this makes sense and gives us the best of all worlds.
Vlastuin - Miller - Trainor
Brown - Gibcus - Grlj
Retschko - McAuliffe - Campbell
Nankervis - Taranto - Lalor
Hotton - Faull - Algar
Mansell - Lynch - Armstrong
Hopper - Balta - Cumming - Smillie - Banks.
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