Paddycripps wrote:
Sidefx wrote:
I think you'll find the club rates the midfield higher than everyone else, otherwise they would've put more effort into it over the last 2 drafts/trade period.
But I agree with your assessment of the players.
We have a lot of outside mids/wingers/HBFs and not enough grunt in the middle.
On the plus side, we will roughly have 2/3rds of the season left (if they resume in May) until the next draft.
But I think they did focus on this in the last draft.
And they did try and get Coniglio.
I reckon they have brought in plenty of mids, it's just that most haven't been good enough, thus far at least.
Overall, I think SOS did well, but not exceptional. He made some good trades, had some clever picks, got the talls right, but didn't get the mids right, and the GWS experiment was largely a fail. I know he didn't give much up for much of the GWS dead wood, but regardless only Plowman and Marchbank look like being good long term players. Aside from those two, basically it was a whole lot of dead wood. And yeah I know the argument that this was just to protect the kids, but even still, that is a helluva lot of dead wood.
I reckon we have to hope Setterfield, Williamson, and Kemp/Philp become stars.
The last two drafts we put too many eggs in the one basket going for two mature players, Shiel and Coniglio.
When we really needed to be going for the upcoming B+ footballers to help out Cripps immediately. i.e. Zak Jones
Setters will be an outside player at best or on the wing.
Williamson will never play midfield.
Kemp looks like he could be a Cripps like gun in a few years, but not now when we need him.
Philp is a chance pick, like Cunningham was.
At best, the midfield drafting for the last 2 years will replace Murphy and Ed. Still leaving a massive depth hole in the middle.