Originally Posted by
bulldogsthru&thru
Keath is an intercept defender which wasn’t a strong need. Bruce is a tall forward which also wasn’t a huge need with Naughtons development, Schache and JUH coming in. Now I’m not saying these were misguided recruits. I’m happy bringing both in as they add value. But we’re crying out for crafty small forwards who apply pressure, a fullback and a ruck who can give English support so we don’t see the likes of Dunkley doing ruckwork. These have been issues for some time. Surely we knew Morris was close to retirement, English is too young to be ready for 100% ruck time and we’ve not had a small forward in...well a long time. I know we went after Martin and Wingard to fill that small forward void. But did we really think Lloyd and drafting Weightman were going to fix the issue?
To top it all off we’ve held deadweight players for far too long where we could have been bringing in some other speculative players to give a chance over these others we knew weren’t going to become anything.