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That's another season gone and must say, I'm a bit underwhelmed with how it panned out after a pretty solid 2023.   Injuries played their part for sure, but we just don't have the depth to cover losses to key players like Giro, Hayden, Lockyer, Braut, Clark, Foley and Mayo. 

I also thought we were out-coached at times which cost us games in close one's.  Upside is the continued improvement of Schofield, the Hickmotts, Alone, Bellouard, Kelman, Shearer but can't see too much else coming through.

We need a big recruiting drive in the offseason with a ruckman our number 1 priority closely followed by a couple of key backs and forwards.  Hopefully those long term injuries will be back and firing otherwise I think we'll be in for a long and painful 2025.

Interesting assessment BC, will be fascinating how the comp emerges after this year, finals regulars like Subi , SF and WP and filtering into a bit of abeyance not a bad thing to mix it up a bit, SF obviously had the points drama but this year drifted out of later and failed to match top teams.

Alone can look good at times but his stat's are not great. Not a lot of possessions. He's got some terrific strengths but is perhaps one dimensional. Something to work on there. Not linking up much perhaps. 

On the money with that assessment BC , I thought Jacob Evitt showed a bit earlier in the season before fading out late. A ruckman MUST be our first priority for the recruiting staff. Everything starts there and we are continually behind the eight ball and chasing from there. Our key position stocks back and forward have been weakened and that should be our second priority. Strength and conditioning is something we can look at with the inability to run out and finish most games a stark contrast to years gone by. Not sure what we have coming up from colts and reserves but some selective recruitment is needed. 

Ruckman & Full Back priorities!
Ressies got the jump on the tigers and there were some real good performers who I thought wouldn’t look out of place at league level. However, Beau’s address at quarter time must have been inspiring as they just hung on in the second then went AWOL in the second half 🙄.
I liked the look of Lachlan O’Keefe. Evitt started on fire but disappointed later. Some great efforts by Ash. Good dash by Morgan.
Enjoyed the post game speeches. We will miss people of the calibre of Kitch. 
Gus’s comments make you realise how important a club like Subi can be to so many people. 
 

Horrible season, up there with the real shit ones. At least in those days the opposition was mostly all class

At least the colts and ressies won their respective qualifying finals. Hamish Duff had 28 hit outs in the ressies. At 197cm and 110kg, he could help to solve our ruck and/or KPP problem if we can't find decent recruits. He's only 21 but looks to have some potential.

Ef reserves had some quality league players who normally blitz subi, so I was slightly encouraged by our performance today. Some young kids looked pretty neat. Golding seemed to be the stand out for me, when I got there late in the 3rd. Promising for next year. Bartlet kicked s clutch goal. He's pretty talented. 

 

tigers will be hard to beat in both grades but you never know

As expected didn't get the wins but good to see Braut runner for the ressies