london blue wrote:
FarmerBlue wrote:
Missing Walsh Kennedy Acres Owies Williams Boyd Martin Marchbank from Best 25
Will we ever get close to our best side?
Walsh, Kennedy, acres from our best side. The rest are injury prone and have like for like replacements.
That's your opinion.
They are all out because of injury. I dont know what "injury prone' has got to do with them being best 23 or not, forthis year: its only round 3.
Like I posted earlier there's 5 players from our best side, I thought everyone agreed with...a fit Williams and Martin any day of the week, AND, there's an argument for Owies because regardless of fan bias, Voss keeps picking him. Last year when we had Boyd with Williams and Saad together, not only did that release Docherty into the midfield rotations (good thing yeah), we had the equal best attacking backline players in the league. We found something. There was no debate. Now Boyd is injured, he's written off? He will be back. Have any doubts he wont be considered if fit? Watch this space.
Marchbank fit and in form, no good? Not best 22? Well Marchy was selected by Voss as soon as he was available with only half a game in the reserves to get into the groove. Cottrell was in the conversation for the teams Best sub, and before Hollands broke through was considered a better footballer/ wingman/ HF/ HB than LOB.
The point is the abovementioned players when fit and firing may be in better form than those in our selected team this week, or next, and are worthy of the consideration as Best 23, rather than writing them off. Fact is we don't know for sure, because we can't tell the future and form is a moving value.
My Best 23 team at the beginning of the season included Cottrell and Fisher, didn't include Owies, Durdin, Newman, Silvagni, Hollands, but things change. They are all worthy to be considered as Best 23 depending on the opposition, and are quality players.
If it wasn't for injury, I would bet that the "so called" peripheral players of the Best 23, Cottrell, Boyd, Marchbank would be playing today, and not written off because they someone pigeon holes them as "injury prone".
Doesn't mean I'm right about them being worthy Best 23. Doesn't mean I'm wrong. We are debating the worth of the injured list and no doubt they are quality players, that are "arguably" Best 23 or next up, and we all wish they were available because of the value a fit Best 26 would bring to the team. All agree on that?