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[ElwoodBlues1]

It's a Bellwether Cookie, a leading sheep, it's not raining bells! ;D

We need two things to further our progress.

In the short term we need a fair dinkum structural KPF, McKay is some years away, our current KPFs play more like a Darling role next to Kennedy, we need a Kennedy. Long term McKay looks capable, Kerr looks capable too, but long term.

Darling was able to step up and change roles to fill Kennedy's shoes for a game or two, but nobody will claim Darling can do that for a season, in finals or in the additional absence of other talls like Naitanui or Lycett! Kennedy in that way is structural, that is what we need!

Secondly, we need at least one other A-Grade midfielder to allow Cripps a breather, the other mids we have now are just support acts and if this keeps up we'll run Cripps into the ground! Making him captain too soon could be a millstone for him, he looks like he is willing to harm himself for a short term benefit! If he gets something like OP we are stuffed! Ideally, someone with a bit more pace that doesn't break our bank!

When you saw Dow, O'Brien and Fisher next to Yolmen or Greenwood, it was clear our guys are the future outside. None of them have the size to be serious inside chop-outs for the Cripps types.

Agree..I think we lack two more big mids, Dow is a decent height but his game isnt based around being a coalface grunt, once Greenwood had locked up Cripps the game was over....
Cripps looks on the verge of losing it too...he is sick of the close tagging, being run into the ground every game and looks really frustrated and his disposal looks like that of a tired man....
Of Urgency in the off season is two readymade bigger framed mids just to help preserve Cripps.....