I played golf with Michael Hafey, brother of and dead ringer for Tom Hafey. He said "My brother always said that it's your 6 worst players that win you the premiership".
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This is where I'd see our best team being, right now. Have defaulted to Roughead in the ruck, in the hope that his pre-season is 'ruck-focused' and that he begins to emerge as a 1st ruck (something I'm unconvinced about).
B: Wood; Roberts; Morris
HB: Murphy; Hamling; Boyd
C: Macrae: Wallis: Hunter
HF: Suckling; Crameri; Dahlhaus
F: Stringer: Boyd,T; Dickson
R: Roughead; Bontempelli; Liberatore
Int: Biggs; Johannisen; Picken; Stevens
Emerg: McLean; Webb; Daniel
McLean will be very hard to keep out of the side.
I'm really looking forward to Lukas Webb's 2016. His start to the year was superb, until the general fatigue of a first year player seemed to set in.
If he can improve his fitness and strength again, I can see him having a fantastic season and certainly finishing in our best 22 form...however I find it hard to pick someone out of that side that he will replace!
Thats a bloody good football team. Your right about Mclean, I only got to see his 5 minute highlight package as a junior before the draft and he looked like a standout for mine. So further emegencies Jong(loved his finals game!) Redpath, Dale, Campbell, Hrovat, Cordy along with Mclean, Webb and Daniel. All a chance to be best 22 IMO, good luck getting a game next year!
Suckling will be a very good pick up with two Hawthorn premierships on his CV. We still lack a quality key forward with a question mark still hovering over Tom Boyd. Roughead still needs to prove that he can go the distance as a ruckman. Liberatore, Stevens and Suckling will certainly strengthen the side. I thought McLean was looking good until injured last year and could become a regular senior player.
Backs:
Morris - Roughead - Wood
Murphy - Hamling - Johannisen
Midfield:
Macrae - Wallis - Stevens
Campbell - Picken - Liberatore
Forwards:
Dahlhaus - Crameri - Bontempelli
Dickson - T.Boyd - Stringer
Interchange:
Biggs - Suckling - M.Boyd - Hunter
Emergenices:
Roberts - Jong - Hrovat
G'day woofers, here is a spreadsheet from the club's website listing the player's games, etc for 2015. It is interesting to observe that of the 40 players who played at least 1 game, the average was 12.65 games played. If you were to use only 33 players, the average goes up to 15.3 games per player. We only had 14 players who played 16 or more games in 2015. Gives one an idea of how deep the list needs to go if you are to have a 'winning' season.
Horses for courses with Freo not having a tall forward half
Campbell to ruck and Roberts to play fullback
No spot for roughy
Be a good one to win and put Ross back into his box