04-01-2018, 12:04 PM
(04-01-2018, 11:23 AM)Shakin77 link Wrote:Don't agree. This is not the 80's when you need to play 100 VFL games before your AFL debut.
Dow is going to learn a lot more from Cripps and Kruezer (when fit) in a AFL then he will in the VFL. Kerridge will offer more in the short term, but playing him and Graham stops getting games into talented kids which will benefit the team in the long run.
Look. In short our list is pox. It's really bad and unbalanced. How we started favourite against the Suns amazed me.
Have a look at our 22-26 year olds. The guys on your list that should have reached 60-100 games plus and are consistent in thier output.
Casboult, Levi
Jones, Liam
Phillips, Andrew
Shaw, Matt ®
Mullett, Aaron
O'Shea, Cameron
Lamb, Jed
Kerridge, Sam
Docherty, Sam
Graham, Nicholas
Plowman, Lachlan
Byrne, Ciaran
Cripps, Patrick
Lang, Darcy
Cripps and ???? Plowman. Doc of course. No need to back the truck over the wasted draft picks, but our core is made up of recycled players and very little talent. This in the group that should be stepping up, not Dow, SPS, Fisher, Polson and Cunningham who should be showing signs of improvement.
The Suns.
Hall, Aaron
Thompson, Rory
May, Steven
Nicholls, Tom
Lyons, Jarryd
Day, Sam
Witts, Jarrod
Lynch, Tom
Swallow, David
Young, Aaron
Sexton, Alex
Lemmens, Sean
Lonergan, Jesse
Martin, Jack
Leslie, Jack
Holman, Nicholas ®
Willis, Mackenzie ®
Kolodjashnij, Kade
Miller, Touk
Weller, Lachlan
What is the point you're trying to make?
Lang, as but one example, was one of Geelong's better players in the 2017 finals.
Is Witts, for example, any better than a fit Philips?
Plenty of no names in their list too....
Finals, then 4 in a row!