Beau Wilkes

[Con Gorozidis]

is full fwd or nothing.

replacement/back up for kosi.

should/will never play back.

our next key back will be jacko ferguson IMO.

[Bernard Shakey]

is full fwd or nothing.

replacement/back up for kosi.

should/will never play back.

our next key back will be jacko ferguson IMO.

In that case he's nothing and Ferg is a rookie, a good one, but still a rookie.

[Con Gorozidis]

is full fwd or nothing.

replacement/back up for kosi.

should/will never play back.

our next key back will be jacko ferguson IMO.

In that case he's nothing and Ferg is a rookie, a good one, but still a rookie.

yep.we are one tall short (confusing grammar i know).

[Con Gorozidis]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

[Spinner]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

What if all our backs go down?

[busso mick]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

What if all our backs go down?

He will be a FF up back

[Con Gorozidis]

What if all our backs go down?

season over.
we are farked.

[Ross who?]

is full fwd or nothing.

replacement/back up for kosi.

should/will never play back.

our next key back will be jacko ferguson IMO.

+ 100

[BigMart]

We forgot to draft any.....sorry, we took one with pick 75..

Jason Blake....who was already in the team....

How we lost a 6'5" and have 4 kpp 30 or over and never recruited any talls mystified me???

[SaintPav]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

[Dr Spaceman]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

That's way too logical Pav.

[stkfc1]

I know it's robbing Peter to pay Paul but if we do start getting shredded by talls,like everyone is predicting, we may have no alternitive but to send Roo down back.Kosi to CHF, Wilkes to FF.I'm not sure even this would work but the cupboard's a bit bare at the moment. Hopefully our midfield will make all of this a non issue and our backline can string up a couple of hammocks in the opposition goal posts and watch the game like everyone else.

[Con Gorozidis]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

He is 26 years old.
Maybe he will somehow pop out of the flower garden as a good defender. Odds are very very slim.

[Gershwin]

Don't know why Kosi is guaranteed a game.
Huge disappointment for 10 years.

Wouldn't lose any sleep to hear that Wilkes was playing KPF in place of Kosi. Play Stanley as well to relieve McEvoy.

[MCG-Unit]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

He can't wait, already started 2 threads on him - and taken any opportunity to declare 'end of discussion' Wilkes can only play forward if at all - season hasn't even started yet

[Con Gorozidis]

Don't know why Kosi is guaranteed a game.
Huge disappointment for 10 years.

Wouldn't lose any sleep to hear that Wilkes was playing KPF in place of Kosi. Play Stanley as well to relieve McEvoy.

+ 1

[Con Gorozidis]

Wilkes = back up FF or nothing.
Here endeth the argument.

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

He can't wait, already started 2 threads on him - and taken any opportunity to declare 'end of discussion' Wilkes can only play forward if at all - season hasn't even started yet

ok suit yourselves! wilkes might be the next matty scarlett and is better than darren glass. happy now?

[AnythingsPossibleSaints]

Don't know why Kosi is guaranteed a game.
Huge disappointment for 10 years.

Wouldn't lose any sleep to hear that Wilkes was playing KPF in place of Kosi. Play Stanley as well to relieve McEvoy.

At the moment he would be sure to get a game because he's looked the best he has in ages in our games so far this season. Has been the only one looking like taking a strong overhead mark up forward.

Having said that, if Wilkes continues to do well up forward and hopefully improves on what he's doing at the moment and Kosi drops off, plus Rhys does well supporting Mac in the ruck, then you could certainly make a case for Wilkes playing instead of Kosi.

As for the last 10 years, Kosi was flying until injuries derailed his career, namely missing the majority of a season with a fractured skull, that had him fainting and all sorts of s***. Unless you've been through that sort of s*** yourself, plus all the other injuries he's had, I don't think you're in a position to be trashing his output for us. I'd suggest he's done the best he knew how to do under the circumstances. He simply isn't who he was before all those injuries, and certainly not who he looked like being at this stage in his career (before he got those injuries). Just like Goose, X Clarke and Luke Ball. Serious injuries can derail a career, whether we like it or not. Now, he is not what he almost certainly would have been, or what we hoped he would be, but he's still played some good footy for us and until there's a legitimately better option, I dare say he'll continue to get a game.

[WinnersOnly]

If WILKES Gets going up forward it will give the coaches an otpion of playing one of our other tall forwards down back when our defence are stretched. To be honest Kosi would be the perfect man to fill that role.

[Dr Spaceman]

Don't know why Kosi is guaranteed a game.
Huge disappointment for 10 years.

Wouldn't lose any sleep to hear that Wilkes was playing KPF in place of Kosi. Play Stanley as well to relieve McEvoy.

At the moment he would be sure to get a game because he's looked the best he has in ages in our games so far this season. Has been the only one looking like taking a strong overhead mark up forward.

Having said that, if Wilkes continues to do well up forward and hopefully improves on what he's doing at the moment and Kosi drops off, plus Rhys does well supporting Mac in the ruck, then you could certainly make a case for Wilkes playing instead of Kosi.

As for the last 10 years, Kosi was flying until injuries derailed his career, namely missing the majority of a season with a fractured skull, that had him fainting and all sorts of s***. Unless you've been through that sort of s*** yourself, plus all the other injuries he's had, I don't think you're in a position to be trashing his output for us. I'd suggest he's done the best he knew how to do under the circumstances. He simply isn't who he was before all those injuries, and certainly not who he looked like being at this stage in his career (before he got those injuries). Just like Goose, X Clarke and Luke Ball. Serious injuries can derail a career, whether we like it or not. Now, he is not what he almost certainly would have been, or what we hoped he would be, but he's still played some good footy for us and until there's a legitimately better option, I dare say he'll continue to get a game.

+ 1

[Wrote for Luck]

Ferg is still way off

[Con Gorozidis]

Ferg is still way off

hardcore fact is we are one quality tall down.
every option will either be not ready or robbing peter to pay paul or someone playing in a role outside their comfort zone.

[MCG-Unit]

Why don't you wait until he gets a real game to see how he goes so I wouldn't be writing anyone off yet.

He can't wait, already started 2 threads on him - and taken any opportunity to declare 'end of discussion' Wilkes can only play forward if at all - season hasn't even started yet

ok suit yourselves! wilkes might be the next matty scarlett and is better than darren glass. happy now?

Yep that's right, go to the extreme, who compared Wilkes to Scarlett and Glass? Some folks are saying as the team lost a tall backman, they drafted a tall who can play back or forward - he played FB at WC Eagles and FB/FF in the WAFL.....

Why bump the thread after a week, to say 'I told you so', and 'forward or nothing, end of discussion'

[joffaboy]

Ferg is still way off

hardcore fact is we are one quality tall down.

Not even a quality defender. We are a Zac Dawson type down. Not dissing Zac, but like it or not, he leaves a big fat hole in our defense.

The bigs at WCE and Collingwood showed what is going to happen to our defence this season if an opposition get a fair run at clearances, which is right on the cards as we are thin on ruckmen.

The good news about the kids at the Zebra's on the Weekened has papered over the cracks. We look ordinary at stoppages and undermanned down back.

[prwilkinson]

Hanging out for Sunday.... It makes for interesting watching.