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Southerner wrote: First scratchie v WCEEP directly so it's time for a bit of a sniff around the traps

Bolters: Have to be Claremont , good squad depth & serious talent added plus a good coach
Revolters: Subiaco - How farking many of our kids do you want for Christ's sake - fair's fair you may as well get Capes to stand at the member's gate on Thursday nights & grab the kids as they leave training
Sliders: Yeah well this could be multiple but West Perth have lost a shitload of experience by the looks & could not afford injuries at all , I think EP might struggle if their advantage is eroded by injury or withdrawal (same goes for that abortion down there)
The Great Unknown: East Fremantle , Subiaco and Swan Districts , all have lost players / have long term injury lists but all three will impact the top 5 in some form
The Yeast: Perth will string a few wins together this year & Lathlain will be a graveyard for some of us


South - we've lost a bit of experience , regained some kids who managed to get some senior footy under their belts & largely kept and promoted our Colts boys
Recruited a tall ruckman as cover and a sprinkling of others
Same position as I see it

Always a challenge to back it up in the modern environment with players coming and going at a drop of the hat, esp the young talent, for us damned disappointed to lose a few of those names and that will impact, Im expecting a step up on last year, we have to go further in the finals, but then there could be the alignment road blocks in any case, tbh there are two spots booked from here on in, Have to probably agree on WP as sliders, Claremont as movers, bottom wont change much Perth probably have that stitched up again... hope EF can hang around to make derbies a contest.

Yep there have been losses we haven't covered everything so we will have to draw upon what we've got , those young colts from last year will get exposure whether it just be ressies or higher - it's just the injury thing that's unknown really mate
Maybe having Cosi , Garlett , Miller-Lewis , Macca & even Parry back gives us something

I will reserve my judgement until I see a few scratch matches.....Injuries and luck will play a big part in how deep clubs will go into the season. On paper our squad looks ok.

Just a few areas of game from last year I would like us to keep on improving.

team defensively statistics(goals against), I think we were in the bottom half. I also think we need to find a few key mid - tall defenders and one or two midfielders to keep adding depth in these areas.
I would like the style of our play to be more direct and quickier into into the forwards, at times last year we looked like rabbits in spot lights trying to exit our defensive 50.

Surprised you guys rate Solomon....with SF forward line easy top 2 finish...even stronger now with D'olio back