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Quite amazing that the backline has not missed a beat without Colin Garland.

Hopefully now Bailey grooms him as a forward when he resumes.

Its obvious that Rivers, Warnock, Frawley and Martin can take care of business down back.

Garland is the most talented of the lot, and played forward as a junior. Would love to see him and Watts bought through together as our tall forward weapons

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Quite amazing that the backline has not missed a beat without Colin Garland.

Hopefully now Bailey grooms him as a forward when he resumes.

Its obvious that Rivers, Warnock, Frawley and Martin can take care of business down back.

Garland is the most talented of the lot, and played forward as a junior. Would love to see him and Watts bought through together as our tall forward weapons

same i wanted him or martin too cus all those backs deserve to be played but with 5 tall backs hard to keep all in at once.

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Quite amazing that the backline has not missed a beat without Colin Garland.

Hopefully now Bailey grooms him as a forward when he resumes.

Its obvious that Rivers, Warnock, Frawley and Martin can take care of business down back.

Garland is the most talented of the lot, and played forward as a junior. Would love to see him and Watts bought through together as our tall forward weapons

I think we haven't missed Garland because we haven't played a team yet who has really good quality medium forwards (Nathan Brown is now average at best). I think this week, Steve Johnson is going to give us some problems. Although, if Frawley continue to nullify those types of players, then Garland may well end up playing as a forward.

However, you underestimate the importance of Garland structurally. For one, Garland playing in defence gives us the option of playing Rivers as a true "quarterback" (for a lack of better description), and he and Garland can both alternate. That means we have one more player who can actually use the ball and drive us forward, which of course allows Davey to play further up the field. Amazing how one player can cause such a massive chain reaction.

Alternatively, Martin could be the man to take that spare KP forward spot. He is a better contested mark, but Garland has better disposal.

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drdrake Redleg

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Are we getting a little over excited by our backline, we still are getting to many goals kicked against us, in most games a key forward or tall has kicked multipul goals against us. Don't get me wrong our back half has improved but we still have a long way to go, watching last night and the last couple of weeks Martin is getting caught a little flat footed and forwards a getting a 5m break on him, he is quick so he makes up some ground but you can't give a leading forward 5m and catch him.

One big issue that I have with our backline is we seem to have three players up all the time which leaves 2 opposing players at ground level for the crumbing goal. It is great to help each other out but we need to watch having to many up competing.

Our backline is the most improved area of our team and will only get better, Grimes, Bennell and Buckley are important to give us the attacking drive of half back.

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Quite amazing that the backline has not missed a beat without Colin Garland.

Hopefully now Bailey grooms him as a forward when he resumes.

Its obvious that Rivers, Warnock, Frawley and Martin can take care of business down back.

Garland is the most talented of the lot, and played forward as a junior. Would love to see him and Watts bought through together as our tall forward weapons

Let's keep Garland doing what he's doing and have something called depth.

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