I am pretty confident in the clearance ability of Fyfe, Blakely, Mundy and Brayshaw, and we have other who can roll through there. And there is pace around them with the Hills and Langdon especially, plus support pace from defence.
After that Hogan, Lobb and Taberner should be our best ever forward line in terms of contested marking.
The club has had a pretty consistent theme of recruiting for pace since we entered the rebuild, and I think our sides will have the live speed to be competitive.
We clearly have weak areas, but in my opinion it is not especially because the building blocks are not there, apart from in the niche area of small forward. But even there, I'd be pretty disappointed if we can't cover that up. If by the end of the year we have one of Schultz or Switkowski playing well in there I think we will be doing okay.
After that Hogan, Lobb and Taberner should be our best ever forward line in terms of contested marking.
The club has had a pretty consistent theme of recruiting for pace since we entered the rebuild, and I think our sides will have the live speed to be competitive.
We clearly have weak areas, but in my opinion it is not especially because the building blocks are not there, apart from in the niche area of small forward. But even there, I'd be pretty disappointed if we can't cover that up. If by the end of the year we have one of Schultz or Switkowski playing well in there I think we will be doing okay.