04-18-2021, 01:17 AM
(04-17-2021, 12:57 PM)Macca37 link Wrote:The harsh reality facing us is that our rebuild has been a failure.
If all of the players on our list were available and we dropped the players from tonight's side who are not up to final 8 standard, we would have trouble fielding a side.
Port Adelaide have recruited skilled ball players, just like the Hawthorn power sides of recent years. What were our selectors thinking?
With this current list we are destined to be amongst the "also rans" for the foreseeable future.
That's an oversimplification.
We do have good ball users - just used out of position - or not at all - or injured.
SPS is an excellent ball user/decision maker. Need to be in the guts.
Williams looks injured. Martin is injured. Saad looks injured too.
Stocker must come in next week - he's probably the only player on our list who's elite off both feet.
The Guv is an excellent ball user but appears too embarrassed to be part of our team to want to bother....
Murphy's a good ball user - for mine, he's either an on baller or not in the 22.
Betts is an exceptional ball user - watch his 3rd quarter last night.
People who suggest he's cooked? Laughable.
He's (presently) less cooked than Cripps, Williams (both injured), Murphy, Doc, Curnow and Newnes.
Finals, then 4 in a row!