06-02-2019, 08:39 AM
(06-02-2019, 08:31 AM)JonDorotich link Wrote:How do we get our way out of this mire?
E Curnow, Kennedy, Thomas, Newman, Fasolo, Plowman, Phillips, Garlett, Obrien, Lobbe, Lang, Polson and Silvagni all have next to 0 trade value, whilst Docherty, Kreuzer, Pickett, Williamson are perennially injured. And, Simpson & Murphy are in the twilight of their careers - that's half of our list.
So hard to find a way out.
I think the kids are not as bad as we make them out to be, but they are not ready to step up. Dow needs to iron out some deficiencies in his game, and Samo is ready to join the senior team as regular but NOT be the senior player yet. Outside of that, it is Cripps and then our older injured brigade. We need some older quality senior players to take that load and ensure we can develop under them. The problem is we cannot find them and get them to come across.
Honestly, can we get a Steele Sidebottom to cross over to us? What about Luke Shuey? Where is our Andrew Gaff or Dayne Beams going to come from? It is that calibre of players that turn up week in and week out and would have been the difference today. Cripps would have run riot - or they would have. We would have to pay the moon to get these guys, so realistically we need the next calibre down or find the older guys coming to the end you can still get some worth from AND who would want to come over to us.