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On his first day meeting North's young players, Clarko said this:
“We’re searching for players that can play in an AFL premiership team.
“There’s a lot of blokes capable of playing league footy and there’s a lot of them that will get that opportunity – they can play, but can they play at the highest level on the last day in September and be part of a team that holds the silverware at the end of the day.”
So after nearly a season of trials, how many has he got? For mine:
LDU
Sheezel
Wardlaw
Larkey
Logue
Zurhaar
Simpkin
Thomas
Scott
Its possible that Phillips, Powell, Goater, Curtis, Bergman and Comben join them. Is there anyone else?
So somewhere between a quarter and third of a contending squad.
If this season has achieved little else, I would say the papers have been stamped on a fair few others over the past couple months.
Ford, even in his average games he fights it out. Stephenson (lol) had 2 goals and 3 tackles in a GF which other players lost. End of last year would have said Perez but he hasn't been great this year and has another knee issue. Corr has been very good over the last month. Archer tries his guts out.
George, Harvey and Hansen jr all have potential.
Even Spicer was straight lining the contest in the VFL yesterday, which is something I hadn't seen from him before.
But its the shitmen who can play a role with 110% commitment that make the difference imo.