Amazing is it not.R. Harvey 3 votes! wrote:
If they were any good they would have been pushing the hacks in the team that were taking there spots.
Grand Finalists in back to back years....and yet our term is full of hacks...
We ran into the Pies in the GF when they hardly had an injury....
Whereas we had both Gram and dal severely restricted..and several others carrying more injuries than the Pies.
Personally I would tend to think that Steven would have been a strong chance to have played finals if he did not have OP.
We may not have a huge pool of brilliant young talent. But while I may be an optimist I believe that we have enough pushing up to get us thereabouts again. Mostr of our senior players are not yet falling off their perches...but that is good thing and not a bad thing.
Steven, Stanley, Armo and Smith are all likely types.
Miles will be interesting to see after his first proper pre-season....others are possibles.
Ben with another year should be better.
Zac....please recall that he actually hada fabulous finals campaign. He was ill last summer. So aftera good pre-season he should be set fora good 2011.
Now while a large number of kids would be nice...we actually do not need a lot to improve for us to be a better team..
Id say Steven, Armo, Miles...and stanley all pushed in that would great.
However even if just two of them step up and improve then that would most likely be enough.
Raph too remains smokie to improve the team if he can at last get his body right.