05-17-2021, 12:13 AM
(05-16-2021, 11:48 PM)tonyo link Wrote:The draw we have had has done us no favours. You try to build momentum, only to bump into the top 5 sides in the first 9 rounds. If we'd had a run of North-Adel-Haw games (like Syd) and got some confidence and game flow, we'd probably be 6-3 and sitting in the top 6.
We're not miles away, and we are not getting blown away. We have three winnable games before the bye. With a bit of luck, we get back to 6-6, and Charlie comes back, TDK has hit the ground running, and Martin and Fisher top it off.
Well, I can dream, can't I?
Yep, you sure can dream... but the points you raise actually are true and have merit, IMHO.
We're a chance in each of the games before the bye. But... we do have personnel issues.
Out of form - Casboult, Gibbons, Cripps, Newnes, Williams, SPS & the game has passed Murphy. Pitto is an honest toiler, but hardly a ruck weapon.
Injured/unavailable/coming back from injury - JSOS, McGovern, TDK, Kemp, Carroll, Marchbank, Fisher, now Cuningham, Charlie, Philp, Martin, McDonald.
Not coming on as hoped/expected - Dow, LOB, Kennedy, Willo & Setterfield.
Makes for depressing reading.
As much as I don't don't like 'what ifs'... what if The TT had our best, say, 28, to pick from each week?
When Plowman, Owies, Cottrell, Casboult, Murphy, Parks, Pitto & Fogarty can't break into the senior side... then we know things are improving.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17