01-17-2021, 02:15 AM
(01-16-2021, 10:18 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:yes but how many of them are key position players?
Gibson 189cm
Stratton 189cm
Birchall 193cm
The rest are a similar sized bunch of midgets. We don't need to find the next big thing to help out our defense. We wouldn't want to go in without Liam and Jacob very frequently but hawthorn managed to win 3 flags in a row because they had consistency in their lineup, consistency in how players played roles, and a bit of luck (which all successful teams need) that breakdowns were few and far between. There were quite a few unsung heros in their teams. We have a few players that fit that bill if they could stop breaking down.
The point in making is that without Brian Lake hawthorn were a team of short defenders and we are not.
Some blokes play taller. Gibson certainly did and in years gone by we had Doull (185cm) and Dean (186cm) as key defenders. And then there's Marchbank at 193cm who struggles to compete against the bigger forwards. We played McGovern (191cm) in defence against Brisbane last season and their tall forwards had a picnic against him.
Most teams these days have at least two very large key forwards, and probably a second ruck, in their forward line. Jones and Weitering can match it with any of them, Plowman (191cm) is competitive against even the tallest, but then our next option is Casboult.
We do have plenty of depth with our medium and small defenders but we will struggle if we lose a key defender or ruckman. As much as I think that he could be a waste of space, Oscar McDonald (196cm) would have to be leading the race for the last spot on our list.
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