What we'd rather see isn't the same as what our footy strategy committee choose to rely upon.
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What we'd rather see isn't the same as what our footy strategy committee choose to rely upon.
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Our footy strategy committee is an oxymoron!
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He can pinch hit in the ruck. Don't forget a few seasons ago we had to get a young ruck of the street midway through the season to have a ruck in the SANFL team. That is a POD to some of the above.
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I guess the word is "depth".
Murray, Worrell and Keane start in defense, Thilthorpe, Walker and Fogarty start in the forward line and Curtin starts as a swingman.
That leaves Butts and Toby Murray?
It was a good off season, but we need to start looking at our talls again.
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Hopefully Rash spends another pre season training with the mids again and makes that move. I’d like to see something like
Worrell Murray Max
Pick 4 Keane Hinge
Cumming Soligo Dawson
Rob Rash Rankine
Keays Thil ANB
Pedlar Fog Tex
Curtin Crouch Peatling Laird
Also hope Milera can get back up - I think Daws called him the underrated one to watch last season before injury
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Worrell Murray Max
Pick 4 Keane Hinge
Cumming Soligo Dawson
Rob Rash Rankine
Keays Thil ANB
Pedlar Fog Tex
Curtin Crouch Peatling Laird
Also hope Milera can get back up - I think Daws called him the underrated one to watch last season before injury
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We're starting to get a lot of mids, once we add pick 4.
This is my depth list of smalls and running players.
MIDSIZED DEFENDERS
Isaac Cumming
Max Michalanney
Rory Laird
Mitch Hinge
Luke Nankervis
Wayne Milera
Hugh Bond
Chayce Jones
Oscar Ryan
Brodie Smith
MIDFIELDERS
Jordan Dawson
Izak Rankine
Matt Crouch
Jake Soligo
James Peatling
Pick 4
Lachlan Sholl
Sam Berry
Zac Taylor
Billy Dowling
Charlie Edwards
Harry Schoenberg
MIDSIZED FORWARD
Ben Keays
Alex Neal Bullen
Josh Rachele
Luke Pedlar
Brayden Cook
Lachlan Murphy
This is my depth list of smalls and running players.
MIDSIZED DEFENDERS
Isaac Cumming
Max Michalanney
Rory Laird
Mitch Hinge
Luke Nankervis
Wayne Milera
Hugh Bond
Chayce Jones
Oscar Ryan
Brodie Smith
MIDFIELDERS
Jordan Dawson
Izak Rankine
Matt Crouch
Jake Soligo
James Peatling
Pick 4
Lachlan Sholl
Sam Berry
Zac Taylor
Billy Dowling
Charlie Edwards
Harry Schoenberg
MIDSIZED FORWARD
Ben Keays
Alex Neal Bullen
Josh Rachele
Luke Pedlar
Brayden Cook
Lachlan Murphy
B- Michalney Murray Keane
HB- Cumming Worrell Milera
C- Hinge Crouch Draper
HF- Rachele Fogarty Neale-Bullen
F- Rankine Thilthorpe Walker
FOLL- O’Brien Soligo Dawson
I/C- Laird, Peatling, Dowling, Keayes, Curtin
Emerg
Nankervis, Taylor, Berry, Butts, Sholl
HB- Cumming Worrell Milera
C- Hinge Crouch Draper
HF- Rachele Fogarty Neale-Bullen
F- Rankine Thilthorpe Walker
FOLL- O’Brien Soligo Dawson
I/C- Laird, Peatling, Dowling, Keayes, Curtin
Emerg
Nankervis, Taylor, Berry, Butts, Sholl
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They have been on the list a number of years now (especially Taylor) and none were particularly high draft picks. Those are the sort of players who should be made to earn their place in the side. If we are going to be gifting games, I would rather it be to pick 4, Curtin, Ryan and Edwards.
Taylor has had his injury concerns and Dowling bashed the door down to get in.
Bond is an interesting one, he probably doesnt have the game to be a long termer but he hardly put a foot wrong.
Ryan and Edwards do deserve games though.
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Dowling did. That's what all three of them need to do now, and then play well enough to hold their spot in the side. I don't see the point of gifting games to them if we have better performing players and more highly talented kids in the SANFL. Let's hope they can force their way in and provide some genuine depth.
That is very generous to Bond. I like Bond but in his handful of games, his opponent was best on ground at least twice.
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Best side I've seen so far.
I'd say Hugh Bond is more a smallish defender, and Lachlan Murphy is a garden gnome, not a mid-sized forward.
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Worrell Murray Laird
Max Keane Hinge
Cumming Dawson Sholl
Keays Fog ANB
Rach TT Tex
ROB Soligo Rankine
Crouch, Peatling, Nank, Curtin
Sub Dowling
Close
Bond, Taylor, Pick 4, Pedlar (if good preseason), Milera if fit.
Laird I would have as sub to get 20 touches in a qtr when he comes on but Nicks will play him so he replaces Bond.
Butts is very unlucky, butt it’s him or Keane
Max Keane Hinge
Cumming Dawson Sholl
Keays Fog ANB
Rach TT Tex
ROB Soligo Rankine
Crouch, Peatling, Nank, Curtin
Sub Dowling
Close
Bond, Taylor, Pick 4, Pedlar (if good preseason), Milera if fit.
Laird I would have as sub to get 20 touches in a qtr when he comes on but Nicks will play him so he replaces Bond.
Butts is very unlucky, butt it’s him or Keane
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Yeah, I just have it as tall and mid-sized - I probably could split mid-sized into a couple of categories.
What kind of key position depth has the last 4 premiership sides had?
Sanders and George Kramer one day suspensions to apply
Dam
Missed Worrell
F Walker Thilthorpe Rachele
HF Keays Fogarty Neale-Bullen
C Cumming Crouch Sholl
HB Dawson N Murray Michalanney
B Hinge Keane Worrell
R O'Brien Soligo Rankine
I Curtin Dowling Peatling Bond Draper
F Pedlar Welsh Cook
HF Berry T Murray Murphy
C Schoenberg Edwards Nankervis
HB Jones Borlase Ryan
B Milera ButtsSmith
R Strachan Taylor Laird
I Madgen Pick 4 Rooie Draft Gallagher top ups
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That team wins the Sanfl flag. We suddenly have some depth it feels.
Except 6-8 will be missing, half covering injuries in the 1s and the other half injuries to that best 22.
Should have better top up players this year to help cover those.
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Fox Footy has assessed all team's 2025 "best" sides.
Ours is unremarkable, with Laird included, of course.
However, there was a very strange comment about Peatling, claiming that he wasn't a need and was very similar to what we already have. I don't see it that way at all.
Ours is unremarkable, with Laird included, of course.
However, there was a very strange comment about Peatling, claiming that he wasn't a need and was very similar to what we already have. I don't see it that way at all.
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I see him grabbing the ball from the packs at speed and kicking the goals. Apart from Rankine, who else do we have for that?
I do see Soligo do it, just not often enough.
