05-08-2016, 10:45 AM
(05-08-2016, 10:15 AM)Raydan link Wrote:I have posted before, if we can come away with a solid back half after year 1 of a rebuild we're doing very well.
Docherty, Weitering, Plowman and Byrne. That's a 10 year backline, we need to add a lockdown small defender and another big and we have a group that will grow together.
With the forward line, they are mostly speculative - Curnow, McKay and Silvagni could be anything or nothing, add in Boekhurst as a HFF/Wing and we have building blocks. Again need another big and two small forwards, and this draft seems to be full of small forwards with pace who can pinch hit in the midfield.
Mids is where we need the most help, quality ball users with speed and grunt x 4, cause they're soooo easy to get :
I think its easier to lure across a key forward when you label him as 'the missing piece of the puzzle' via free agency than it is to get a key backman.
Backs you want to learn and grow together and to know what each of them are going to do in any given situation. Plug and play backs are very hard to make work.
Key forwards just need to do the basics well. As the music men put it....
"Lead, mark, kick a goal, kick a goal, kick a goal.
Lead mark kick a goal, kick another goal"
Also, mids can be gotten relatively cheap by comparison. Kerridge cost us 1/5th of Menzel. Slots straight in. A couple more like him and you are halfway there. Use the odd pick on the best mid available and rebuild complete. Any pockets/flankers you pick up via free agency if needed, or later round selections.