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From Pies POV there is a point about stacking injuries for players that play similar positions. It's not just linear addition, or impacting depth - there seems to be a cost to having players play more important roles that they're unaccustomed too, or the act of having to search deeper means that the loss of a player is multiplied.

Maybe we can say something like losing [PLAYERCARD]Bailey Smith[/PLAYERCARD] to injury on average is more costly than losing [PLAYERCARD]Rory Lobb[/PLAYERCARD] (for example). But with Naughton also out injured, a Lobb injury would be more critical, and it's actually better for team structure that it's Lobb that's playing this game, not Smith.

We're missing a lot of talented players, but not really two in the same position. Maybe Richards and Libba as onballers, but that's it. Naughton's injured, but not Jamarra, Darcy or Lobb (or English) Weightman's injured, but not West, Garcia, or Clarke/Jones should we pick them. Johannisen's injured, but not Dale or Bramble. Coffield is injured, but not O'Donnell (this week), Khamis, Williams should we pick them.

We have our injuries too, but Hoskin-Elliot, Elliott, Mihocek, Cox and maybe McInness adds up for the Pies. They'll not only be fielding a weak team on paper, they'll also have poor players taking important roles.