On rucks....
King has performed...and will again in 2009.
MG will be a worthy back up in 2009 (injury, suspension etc to King)...and MCEvoy is young and will get some gametime.
Kosi will mainly play forward...but with some spells in the ruck.
That is adequate depth for 2009
For infinity and beyond.......or rather 2011 and beyond
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no doubt amonst either the ND or the Rookies there will be another young ruckman tried.
Blake our NSW scholarship player may well get rookied...
On Mids
Cousins (we hope) and Ray will give us a welcome lift.
Steven is our one young hopeful of beinga future gun( way too early to call though)....with Armo, Geary, Eddy providing depth....plus the Jones boy..even with his limitations.
Gram will have learnt from his midfield time in 2008 and will be better for it.
BJ to star in 2009...but like Hodge will mainly stay back to set up play.
But we need MORE!!!!! For our 2009 chances it is VITAL that Ball gets fit...we need his grount...and that X-man at last delivers.
But we need more still!!!! So expect some mids in the drafts.
KPP's -forward
Allen is still an unknown.
Charlie was given a one year trial as that missing medium forward and we may not have hada choice as I suspect thta taking over his contract was part of the deal to land King).
Kosi may not bea gun forward...but with Roo a superstar..Kosi provides that other big forward option that you need.
The medium forward spot still has the VACANCY sign though.
KPP's - back
Can Maguire come back? We hope so....for if he can resume at CHB it frees up Fisher to be the creative and damaging player that we know he can be.
Max will be Max...but for how much longer.
Gilbert might have turned the corner late in 2008..but I hope he spends the summer on his kicking.
So one would expect a tall player or too amongst our picks....
Other??
We we still lack a small defender capable of shutting down class small forwards. An area that we struggled in in 2008. Baker???
Irish
Well a lucky dip here...but I would expect at least one Irish International Rookie to be listed. I would imagine that they will be quick.....but short or tall???
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....