Building a Premiership Team

[MadAsHell 4,209]

If there's another thread that mods think this should join then please move it. However I thought it warranted it's own thread.

Hear me out. I don;t think it's a case of not having the cattle to get this team off the mat. I think we have a lot of the cattle, we just need to get this game plan down, get more games into the young players and fill our 3 vacant slots (by my count). If you compare our team to that of Collingwood in 2010 who Neeld's probably modeling our game off I think we'll get there. Here's a bit of a run down comparing the two.

FB: N. Maxwell = T. Davis (need to start playing the kid, hits the contest hard.)

FB: N. Brown = J. Farwley (need I say more, Chip has him covered.)

FB: B. Johnson = S. Blease (the kid needs to pull his finger out, could becoem a massive weapon and fill this role.)

HB: H. O'Brien = J. Grimes (Already plays the same role, will get better if he stays injury free.)

HB: B. Reid = T. McDonald (Similar to Davis, I really rate this kid, and he's tough and can play on bigger opponents. Sorry Riv.)

HB: H. Shaw = J. Strauss (need his kicking skills back there.)

C: D. Thomas = (This is where we have a vacancy. Need an explosive line breaking classy mid in the next draft.)

C: D. Swan = J. Trengove (I reckon JT can become this good, he's got a lot of work but the kids all class.)

C: S. Wellingham = (I'd love to say Morton, Bail or Dunn could play this role but not convinced as yet. Probably another oppening where we need a midfielder who can run with someone all day, shut them down and get the pill a bit themselves.)

HF: B. McAffer = R. Petterd (Ricky's got the guy covered easily with skill, just reckon he needs to focus on his defensive sid and fill the defensive forward role.)

HF: T. Cloke = J. Watts (While Watts will never be the massive unit Cloke is, I still think he can reach the heights of N. Riewoldt who is still a very effective CHF in todays game. Watts just need to keep bulking up and his work rate up.)

HF: A. Didak = C. Sylvia (Like for like for mine.)

FF: L. Brown = J. Fitzpatrick (Reckon Fitzy is the guy to play the forward/2nd ruck role. He's agile and starting to clunk more marks out at Casey. Starting to have doubts if Stef will learn how to play as a forward.)

FF: C. Dawes = M. Clark (Big bodied FF filled.)

FF: L. Davis = (Obviously we need to recruit a small crumbing forward or two.)

FOLL: D. Jolly - M. Jamar/M. Gawn (Either of these two will be able to play as no 1 ruck, just a question of how long Jamar can hold out Max.)

FOLL: S. Pendlebury = J. Gysberts (Reckong the Gys is a mini Pendlebury in the making.)

FOLL: L. Ball = J. Viney (I know Jack isn;t here yet, but reckon he'll scream Luke Ball the way he goes about it.)

INT: D. Beams = J. Howe (forward who can also play midfield.)

INT: J. Blair = N. Jones (Blair's more of a forward who occasionally plays midfield, Jones is a midfielder who I'd like to see add the ability of being able to play forward.)

INT: S. Sidebottom = B. Moloney (Vital part of midfield rotation. Sidebottom has more class but Beamer could be equally effective.)

INT: A. Toovey = L. Tapscott ( swing man who can play anywhere. Toovey plays mainly back but does get moved around. Tappy has the ability to play anywhere.)

So would like to hear what peoples opinion of our list is. By my thinking we're onlt 2 mids. (1 quality & 1 tagger) and a small forward short of what we need. So for me it's time to start getting more games into the likes of T. McDonald, Davis & Fitzpatrick. But then again I might be looking at this with red & blue goggles.

GO DEES!