- Sep 14, 2005
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I’ve said it before, I’d be very surprised if the Blues didn’t make top 8 next year.Bottom 6 is being fixed but is reliant on injuries. Instead of having most of the season playing Newnes and Plowman we instead have Marchbank, McGovern, Williams. Instead of LOB or Cottrell we bring in Acres next year. Instead of Owies we get more out of Honey, Durdin or Motlop. Instead of Setterfield or Dow we have Hewett or Kennedy. There is heaps of options there to improve that bottom 6 if the youth step up a little and we stop getting smashed with injuries. We were 0.6% out of the eight, I'm not saying these players are the difference to us finishing 1st but they definitely make us 0.6% better.
Only Cripps, Saad and Docherty would have played near their peak this year. Curnow was unreal but if him and McKay can learn to kick straighter they can be even better. Walsh and Weitering were down on previous years. Our starting back six barely played more then one game all together. We had a coach in his first year. We should have made the 8, but if people can't see how we will improve they just simply don't want to.
I still believe though that Collingwood should finish higher.
People doubting Collingwood’s game plan and Fly repeating his work seem to have no issues with Voss automatically getting more out of his side - that’s strange for me.
This trade period should give us a better indication around whether either side is going more long term with their list management or wanting to get immediate improvements.