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No we have 4, soon 5 when tdk is up. They've been ground down so much people are forgetting already.I think the thoughts on āstar powerā on this board is wildly overratedā¦
We have 2 stars!
Walsh won best player in the finals last season. Didn't even play the grand final.
Weitering and Cripps are obvious.
TDK is a star on the rise. Not quite but for this discussion he is. As lost management pertains to the future.
Harry should be.
Then you have a suite of very very good players, match winners/ savers on their day who are much better than they are showing for reasons mainly to do with being over worked run down etc in Saad, Newman, Acres, Cerra, Kennedy, Williams,
Then there's a few honest guys every team likes to have like Fogarty, Hewett, Boyd, Cincotta
And then there's the developing 'up and comers' in Kemp, hollands X2, Cowan.
Thats a really good balance and not many teams have that to work with. You'd hopefully add back Docherty and Jack back. Billy pushing through and a proper 2nd defender to play that spot and start deploying gov and kemp properly. So presumably with a real game plan and an off season properly designed you come back with only major questions on small forward, third tall forward and second defender.
Adding another 1million dollar player to that group personally think would just destroy the balance.
Now that I'm ranting I may as well....
A Weitering Newman
Saad B Cowan
Acres Cerra Walsh
Elijah Charlie C
Fogarty Harry Williams
TDK Cripps Kennedy
For this exercise the bench doesn't really matter. The point:
A is that third tall: Jsos, Kemp, Mcgovern are all capable to very good thirds/ interceptors.
B: this is the big hole. Should be the target. Not a petracca. A strong capable no fuss body on body first tall defender to partner with Weits. An Astbury/ Murphy/ Grimes type.
C: This feels gameplan/ form dependant. At the moment we stuff a defensive runner here and say run 16km do nothing and if you do less than nothing get dropped. Ala cotts, fantasia etc. I think structurally it should be whoever is left over from A. Jsos/Kemp/Mcgovern. Or even Martin if he stays. A marking sized forward and decent runner.
Then there's Hewett, Boyd, Cinc, Cotts, Doch, lord, Moir, Motlop, Wilson all either developing/ recovering or ready for those bench spots.
Play the strong guys in the guts. Have 3 roaming talls to intercept quick entries. Walsh running like a madman on one wing and acres the other.
Call them nodes or.anchor points but the extra tall to kick to means you've got those nodes that reduce running required overall and we simultaneously reduce reliance on role players with a better spread and structure. Idk makes sense to me.
Obviously petracca in would be unreal but yeah.