The team should top up to service our greatest need. They will be aggressive in the market to top up as our team is well poised for another tilt.
The order of the positions we need to fill are:
KEY FORWARD
Age appears to be catching up with Hawkins. He appears to be slow, uncertain and fumbly and gives away 50's. Having said that he does ruck well in the forward line because of his bulk and skill. Great servant of the club but I fear the end is near.
Cameron roams all over the ground and does not play a key position as such.
Neale looks like he can fill that role, but can not be expected to carry the load at this stage of his development. Rohan or Neale or both MUST come into the side.
We need another more experienced forward player who can take a pack mark.
**Someone like a Jamara Ugle-Hagan should be our number one target if he is available. Pay the
Just looking at our needs in the medium term.
If you minus all the over 30's and then exclude players that are yet to play in the first team then we'd have the following team:
FB: Mullins SDK Kolo
HB: Zuthrie Henry Holmes
C: O'Connor Bruhn Dempsey
HF: Miers Neale Mannagh
FF: Stengle O.Henry Close
R: Cohan Atkins Bowes
I/C: Clark Parfitt Knevitt O'Sullivan
That team is pretty well-balanced without a glaring deficiency but definitely a quality KPF that instantly replaces Hawkins would be handy. Ugly-Hagan, though different to Hawkins, would fill the need. A tough get though and we Neale who looks worth a shot. Could be better just to draft a KPF and use Neale
We actually have a good solid base 22 players and I’m sure one or two on the list that haven’t played yet can strengthen that. It is however maybe needing a few stars to fill the eventual void left by Danger, Stewart, and Jez. We’ve got 2 maybe 3 years to replace most of them but Danger maybe as soon as this off-season. Others like Touhy, Duncan, Rohan, and a lesser extent Hawkins I feel we already have replacement options.
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