harker wrote:
Taking the emotion out of it, I'd take Pendlebury quite easily right now.
We have two ruck-men that could capably do that duty for us and we add an absolute A-Grade mid-fielder to the cause.
We all love Kreuzer and wouldn't give the man up for anything, but Pendlebury would bring us closer to a cup.
We must stop calling Kreuzer a mid until he starts to regularly rack up 30+ possessions the way Pendlebury does. Just not fair to the guy.
Right now one of our strengths is the speed and mobility of our ruckmen and KP forwards. Allows us to load up the forward line with marking options with losing that speed and mobility by playing Waite, Thornton at times with highly mobile rucks Hampson and Kreuzer resting there. Now do that trade and suddenly and suddenly you have to rest a ruckman (Warnock) on the bench, hurting rotations, or lose that mobility forward when Warnock rests. We'd go well still for sure as we'd be pretty mobile still with Waite, Walker and sometimes Thornton there but it makes it unnecessarily harder.
Digressing a little, Hawthown, with Roughhead fit, now have Hale, Roughhead and another ruckman to fit into the side, which might hurt their mobility and makes them possibly top-heavy even with Buddy. Eventually they'll have to pinch-hit or if they want 2 rucks leave Roughead out and risk losing him in a trade if he can't get a regular game. We are so lucky in that regard.