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Mad Dog wrote: Less than a month from our round 1 clash against the Demons,thought I'd have a crack and am interested in others thoughts.

Simpson Ames Ugle

Howard Notte Casserly

Elari Riggio Broad

Anderson Geapen Rogers

Houghton Cary Davis

Blakely Ridley
Faulkner Jukes
Blight Burnham
Maguire

Grescos,Nuich,Kalimeris,Wityk,Manton,Nelson,Smirk all with a shot and I'm probably missing a few.

Was interesting to see Nelson Anstey play full back in the intra club. Is a fair way off a league spot in my opinion.

Note that Robin$on has gone to $ubi and Jetta has retired.

Big news about Robinson. Is a fantastic player if he can get fit. I hope for subis sake he can't ...
So is that six premiership players left now?
Ugle in a back pocket? Is that unorthodox for him or was he there a bit last year?

I'll have a crack:

Simpson Ames Ugle
Broad Howard Casserly
Elari Riggio Stephens
Jukes Geapen Rogers
Houghton Cary Davis

Notte Faulkner Jukes

Bench Blakely Burnham Blight Nuich

Goals aplenty in that forward line Dingo. Maybe Houghton can step up and realise his potential with the help of more established performers around him.

Mid-field our weakness, Boekhorst and C.Blakely Big losses and No ruckman at the start of the year as we don't have lot of depth in that area but the kids will get their chance to step up.
Jetts a massive loss, not sure who will slot into his role tho Grescos and Kirkup showed a bit last year.

Dingo,I think there is little chance that Notte will lead the ruck. He's too important with his versatility to play back or fwd and his knee was pretty shot at the end of last year. I put Houghton in the pocket thinking he will be the reliever for Blakely.
MO surely Blakely's finger will be right for round 1 in some 3 1/2 weeks! He broke it a while ago didn't he? And he would still be able to do plenty of running.
Warrick Wilson is a young bloke coming up from colts with a lovely left foot but he's not overly quick and he might not be physically ready.
Aiden Anderson should be looking to take Boekhurst spot! If he wants to get drafted then he needs to be more than just a pressure forward.

I wonder when Turtle will tell us of this all conquering midfielders name?!!

Yes where has Turtle gone to. Perhaps Turtle is this player and he has been in bootcamp haha

Dingo wrote: I'll have a crack:

Simpson Ames Ugle
Broad Howard Casserly
Elari Riggio Stephens
Jukes Geapen Rogers
Houghton Cary Davis

Notte Faulkner Jukes

Bench Blakely Burnham Blight Nuich

That side will make things tricky for opposing sides in 2015

BC wrote: that's news to me... i really rated robinson a few years back but not sure how effective he'll be now after the run of injuries...how old is he?

Just turned 29, BC, so he has still got a few years left in him. I just wonder why he did part of a pre season at Swans if all he wanted was to play in a team in its premiership window as Freezin seems to be suggesting. He may find himself on the bench a fair bit at Subi given their strength

Mad Dog wrote: Dingo,I think there is little chance that Notte will lead the ruck. He's too important with his versatility to play back or fwd and his knee was pretty shot at the end of last year. I put Houghton in the pocket thinking he will be the reliever for Blakely.
MO surely Blakely's finger will be right for round 1 in some 3 1/2 weeks! He broke it a while ago didn't he? And he would still be able to do plenty of running.
Warrick Wilson is a young bloke coming up from colts with a lovely left foot but he's not overly quick and he might not be physically ready.
Aiden Anderson should be looking to take Boekhurst spot! If he wants to get drafted then he needs to be more than just a pressure forward.

I wonder when Turtle will tell us of this all conquering midfielders name?!!

Mad Dog this was a quote from a story in the west last week, it was at the end of a story about Keitel so you may have missed it
"Swan Districts have been left with a giant headache with first-choice ruckman Nathan Blakely expected to miss at least half of the season because of a serious finger injury".

mikeh wrote:

BC wrote: that's news to me... i really rated robinson a few years back but not sure how effective he'll be now after the run of injuries...how old is he?

Just turned 29, BC, so he has still got a few years left in him. I just wonder why he did part of a pre season at Swans if all he wanted was to play in a team in its premiership window as Freezin seems to be suggesting. He may find himself on the bench a fair bit at Subi given their strength

worked a treat for Twomey didn't it mikeh?......perhaps Robbo through training with SD early on, realised they aren't as close as he would like them to be at this stage in his career to winning a flag.....obviously more coin played a factor too.....who knows eh?.