Yes we’ve had a very solid start to the season,and for the first time 6 seasons into the post alignment era,we finally seem to have a lot of depth.Harrison Macreadie has competently filled the void of the much needed solid key defender,and given the backline an overall much more balanced look.Mitch Crowden was always going to be a handy recruit,but he has exceeded all expectations,and his drive,poise and exquisite ball use and on field leadership has been a sight to behold,and I have to retract my initial thoughts that he would be a downgrade on Jackson Ramsay,and unheralded Joondalup and Wanneroo amateur player Luke Tedesco has been a revelation in the forward line. :::: I suppose the only downside would be that the w.end side contained only 7 home grown players,which comprised of 3 player from the “ever reliable S.W.zone,2 from the underwhelming Ellenbrook area,1 from Noranda and 1 from Bayswater Morley,so that’s a paltry 4 players from our metro zone,so after losing something like 10 points in the cap last season after playing finals,it most certainly is an area of concern,but probably no surprise,as our traditional metro zone has been on the steady decline since the early eighties,and the suggestion that relocating to whiteman park maybe the panacea to remedying the paucity of metro talent we have in our allotted metro zone,is sheer folly,as the output of talent from the nearby vastly populated Ellenbrook has done very little to increase our league metro talent pool.