03-09-2020, 06:47 AM
(03-09-2020, 01:31 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Just some stats re age of our list.
We have 20 players on our list who are 23 and over.
4 of those came in the offseason (Pittonet, Newnes, Martin and Betts)
1 more the year before (McGovern)
2 more are rookies who have joined in the same period (Gibbons and Goddard)
Leaving just 13 senior players (23 or older) who have been on the list for 2 or more years....and 7 others still finding their feet.
Throw in Docherty and Marchbank who are in that group but have barely played through injury....and you are down to half a team.
We have 8 players who are 22 curently. This is Silvagnis first draft class coming through.
In that draft (and trade period) he added...
Weitering
McKay
Curnow (23)
Cuningham
Jack Silvagni
and also Plowman (25) via trade.
Not a bad start if you ask me.
Besides the 5 draftees, we also have Kennedy, Setterfield (both SOS trades), SPS (drafted the following year) and Owies (cat b rookie) as 22 yo's.
THESE are the players that you can judge SOS on as that is the start of his reign. These are the players that are entering their prime and by seasons end we will be able to judge them once and for all.
We have 17 other players who are 21 and under!
It’s not the number we have it’s the lack of quality in it.
The names you mentioned apart from 3-4 don’t exactly put the fear of god in the opposition do they. Like many on here your clinging on to bloke you hope will become players but as the years go on those numbers will start dwinding.
Spin it any way you want but apart from weitering plowman Charlie and maybe McKay the rest are fails or jury out at best till this point.
Good luck hanging a seasons success on that group.