Pick your 22 for Rounds 1 and 12

[PaulP]

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I certainly wouldn't rate him as the worst of that back 6 in terms of ball use and decision making.  Have you ever taken note of how many times Docherty turns the ball over?  And he plays as a loose man most of the time.  Rowe has a different role to the other defenders and he does it very well.  As the website article notes, those who vote on our B&F had him as our equal sixth best player.

Yes he was 6th, but Doc the Turnover Merchant was 1st.

I'm not anti Rowe. If we want to be the team/club of our collective dreams, of our collective aspirations, we can't keep glossing over players weak points. Watch Rowe when he takes possession - his first instinct is for the quick hand ball or short pass off to a team mate. Whether by instinct or instruction, I know not. Maybe he simply needs to back himself more.