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In a two or three years the midfield will look more like Scully, Trengove, Grimes, Gysberts, Viney, Mckenzie and the likes of Moloney and Jones will become depth players. Much like the Pies this year when you had a few younger boys step up and blokes like Lockyer couldn't get a game.

I'm sure I can remember stats from last year that Moloney had about 70% game time on the ball, while Scully had something like 9%. If we're to challenge, that's gotta change! In fact, I reckon it's not until Sculls gets 70% on-ball time that we're serious about challenging.

Moloney is going to be important against some opposition midfields - Saints come to mind, where we'll need his toughness - but will be a liability against speedy well-drilled midfields ... like Essendon, obviously, and maybe Carltank. We need to use him more wisely, not just plonk him in every game because he can't play anywhere else.

The question for me is that if Moloney's on-ball time is going to decrease, where else does he play? I'd like to see how he goes HBF or even BP, where he could give a lot of drive, and could even change onto the ball in the last quarter if the game was tight.

Moloney & Jones should never be on the ball at the same time. Jones has more strings to his bow, as a tagger for instance, and perhaps forward. Another problem with both of them is that neither of them kick enough goals. Maybe either of them could be defensive HFFs too. They're both born-&-bred on-ballers, but in years to come they're going to have to get used to other roles, or just lose importance.

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