03-02-2020, 09:10 AM
(03-02-2020, 07:47 AM)shawny link Wrote:I copped a lot of crap at the end of the trade period for our lack of success at the trade table again when another trade period was wasted by not getting some support for Cripps and not properly addressing such a one dimensional division.
As a result our whole years success now falls again on Cripps playing a 3 vote game and also a big chunk of our kids having breakout years. Good luck with that.
The kids are unlikely to be ready - some may improve some will stay the same some will go backwards. That the nature of kids. The jury is still well and truly out on blokes that some on here think are a lock to make it. Dow, Obrien, Setterfield, Kennedy, De Koning, Marchbank, Williamson, Cunningham and Fisher all have potential but none are locks IMO. Probably add in a few more to that list if you want to be critical.
Add in blokes like Lang, Polson, O'Dwyer who wont make it you may see why I'm not so positive as many think I should be.
If Cripps or even Kruezer go down this year we are a bottom 2-3 side. 5 years into a rebuild with the amount of picks we have had and opportunities at the trade table and yet the above sentence is a fact hence why I cant see us taking the big leap that many think will happen.
The main focus of your post is for the here and now (i.e season 2020), and in this respect I generally agree. "Help for cripps" have been a catch cry for a while. The club is no doubt aware of it, but for right now, I think Muprhy and Curnow will have to suffice. Walsh will also help, but he's young and not specially big bodied.
In terms of the team overall, don't underestimate the return of Docherty. He's a jet, and has a great footy brain. It's unrealistic to expect him to start like he finished up in 2017, but if he can stay on the park and regain some touch, it will be a treat watching him as the season progresses.