Quote Originally Posted by jeemak View Post
It will only be the best midfield in the competition if it shows up unconditionally week to week and runs both ways.
Really it's the same midfield as last year but with Treloar who can add a bit more run and some long random wayward kicking.

We will still get beaten if we don't work hard defensively, which is where we started so slowly last year.

The big concern for me is that with this so called "embarrassment of riches", that we will do what we usually do and play like we assume someone else will do all the hard work and we all wait for the soft stuff.

Don't let it get to your heads dogs, we still have a below average Ruck department, a forward line which can struggle to kick goals, a small defence that has a history of struggling against the big forwards and a lack of go to marking targets in general play.

I think the forward line will improve, and the running option in vanders, treloar and smith will help get it in there faster. Still have doubts about our ability to stop the counter attack goals where we turn it over and the opposition explodes, opens us up and walks into an easy goal. This burned us so many times the last two years, our lack or runners and leg speed both ways, and slow defenders that get caught out.