Can you win without a Wakelin?

[Enviable Tradition]

With our proposed recruits it seems like we are going to go all out on the high defensive press and intercept marking game. Unless they develop significantly there aren't any KPD that I would be confident defending a 1v1 at a crucial time in a big game.

So the question is this.

Can you get good enough at the high press/intercept game that the occasional easy 1 on 1 goal out the back doesn't kill you?

Or do you still need a full back who can play one on one?

And if it's the latter can we develop on of our KPD into that? And who is most likely? Rat? Zerk? Marshall? Pasini?

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[tribey]

The botched development and list strategy surrounding Howard will always rankle.

200cms, lightning quick for his size, won a spoils title (in NBA parlance) in just his third year with only 30 games under his belt, and was deemed promising enough to be handed the captaincy for a day.



But instead of settling him in, allowing him to develop and polishing him up, he’s moved forward and back when not dropped, before understandably taking the bag to play elsewhere.

And in general the club and its apologists were happy to spotlight his flaws (he doesn’t intercept mark enough! he’s too error-prone!), despite labouring with an undersized defence that has struggled to deal with genuine height/one-on-one contests for literally years — capped by Ben Brown

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Ben Brown

Age

31

Ht

200cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.7

3star

K

7.7

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

2.2

5star

D

7.9

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.6

1star

M

3.7

4star

T

0.9

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.6

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.2

4star

’s 10-goal bag, with Baby Larkey banging in 5 of his own.

So now we’re going to pay overs in salary and trade capital for Esava Ratugolea and Brandon Zerk-Thatcher

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Brandon...

Age

26

Ht

195cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

8.5

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.5

4star

T

1.5

3star

MG

148.5

2star

D

12.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

5.0

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.0

1star

MG

124.0

2star

D

11.5

3star

K

8.5

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.5

5star

T

1.5

4star

MG

148.5

3star

— both of whom have huge question marks in that department?

The circus continues.