Five or six.

[leave it to deever 17,511]

Heard someone say that your not a serious contender without five or six high quality players competing for selection.

For everyone its clearly Gawn and Hogan.

Who are the other 4, assuming everyone from dogs game is included?

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,816]

For different reasons (ie, balance), Oliver, Hunt, Salem and Watts.

[Chook 15,013]

JKH, Weiderman, Wagner, Trengove. On this metric, we're probably at least 3-4 players off premiership contention then...

[poita 3,902]

Stretch, Brayshaw, ???, ??? Definitely need another key position player pushing for selection.

[Diamond_Jim 12,598]

Another way of stating this metric is looking at the strength of your bottom six as selected.

Our bottom 6 played well against the Dogs and the Pies but other than that our bottom 4-5 have been unsettled for weeks.

Would love to see Stretch and Brayshaw force their way into a successful team rather than be part of the merry go round of ins and outs we saw earlier this season.

[PaulRB 6,393]

If list fit, healthy and in form: Vandenberg, Brayshaw, Stretch, Wagner, Trengove, Smith, Weiderman, JKH, ...

[Deeoldfart 8,035]

Just now, PaulRB said:

If list fit, healthy and in form: Vandenberg, Brayshaw, Stretch, Wagner, Trengove, Smith, Weiderman, JKH, ...

Both Smiths , but still a bit light on.  Based on this, the off season will be another very important one for our list managers to capitalise on our current (seemingly) strong position.

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,508]

It's the kind of throw-away comment that doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.

It would have to be the five players on your list that wouldn't be in your best 22 if the entire list was fit, in form and available.

Probably take your pick from:

KENT

BUGG

STRETCH

MELKSHAM

WAGNER

HARMES

ANB

AVDB

WEIDEMAN

That's a decent list of players that may not be in the best 22 if all are fit and available.

[leave it to deever 17,511]

50 minutes ago, Chook said:

JKH, Weiderman, Wagner, Trengove. On this metric, we're probably at least 3-4 players off premiership contention then...

Was kind of thinking the same thing which is why I wanted other opinions.Our top 22 is awesome but every team cops injuries. 

Need to keep recruiting the way we have and a flag will come.

[leave it to deever 17,511]

27 minutes ago, PaulRB said:

If list fit, healthy and in form: Vandenberg, Brayshaw, Stretch, Wagner, Trengove, Smith, Weiderman, JKH, ...

Forgot about Brayshaw. Hes a big one. Agree with Wagner, Weid, Vanders and maybe stretch. Not a bad list then.