I would say Birchall is definately going to be the star from the recent draftees, really looks the goods. Harry seems to have turned the corner, a big improvement and Willo on the wing looked nice i thought found himself with a paddock of room on a few occassions.
Overall I think the hawkers...
OK I'll give this team a crack
Brown/Ossie, Boyle, Smith
Thurgood/Dawson, Croad, Jacobs
Young, Hodge, Bateman
Crawf, Roughie, Franklin
Miller/lekkas, Williams, Dixon
Everitt, Mitchell, Lewis
Int:Clarke, Vanders, Taylor, Ladson, Sewell
One of the Ossie Brown combo can play on...
For me the eighties have it, beside the finals glory I remember seeing one J Platten play his first game in the brown and gold almost getting his head ripped from his shoulders only to keep running like nothing had happened. You could tell we had got ourselves a game winner right there.
Only...
Yes they would be champions because they'd be training more like they do now working on pace and agility rather than building body mass and one on one comp. Skill levels were excellent for these 2 (and most of the team back then) and would be able to adapt to any style of game in time. If we had...
today's footballers possess (on average) a heap more skill than anyone of that era and thats not belittling anyone past, but today they are better athletes and better trained by virtue of it being a full-time occupation.... he has it all in front of him but with time and thus the experience he...
B: J Hay, Chris Langford, Gary Ayres
HB: Joel Smith, Peter Knights, Chris Mew
C: Shane Crawford, Terry Wallace, Robert DiPierdoemnico
HF: Darren Jarman, Dermott Brereton, Gary Buckenara
F: Jason Dunstall, Peter Hudson, Leigh Matthews (c)
Ruck: Don Scott, Michael Tuck (vc), John Platten...
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