mad saint guy wrote:A fit Sam Fisher playing loose in defence would make us a much stronger team in 2014. Particularly with McEvoy gone his intercept marking in defence would be invaluable (if we're trying to win games, that is).
There's no way that Fisher, Dempster, Delaney, Bruce, Roberton, Gilbert and Gwilt could play in the same 22 though. Especially when we're trying to get games into Newnes, Webster and Wright. Would be bad news for Simpkin and Ray as well.
Fisher will probably only go around one more time but I would be looking at ways to reinvent my game if I were Simpkin. He's probably capable of playing somewhere else. Dempster probably is only a year behind Fisher. Gwilt might be retained but see more time at Sandy while we transition the old guys out and new guys in. I think Gilbert could genuinely make it as a forward these days. He seemed to improve his contested game and footskills while he was injured.
Newnes was talked about as playing a midfield role and Wright could play anywhere from forward to midfield so could be shifted around. Webster will still probably only be good for half a dozen games in 2014.
It sounds a pretty fair backline with Delaney, Fisher, Roberton, Dempster then a line up of possibles in Bruce, Webster, Gwilt, Ray, Gilbert etc.
Bruce looks like a player but he is probably not going to play 23 games next year. Delaney will if fit.
