by Swamp Donkey » Mon Sep 26, 2016 3:56 pm
I realise AV had a strong senior colts team this season and there seems to be a lot of hype about where that team will take the club over the next 2-5 years and beyond. However, in my opinion after having a closer look at each player in that U17s team this year (and I have only watched them 2-3 times this year), you would be hard up to find any players that are ready to step up and be quality first pick player (i.e in the top 18) at any other club within the APFL's top 4 A grade teams next season. My question is - are we overestimating the talent (not numbers) of young blood currently at AV?
Yes, I'm sure there will be some that play A grade for AV in 2017 due to their lack of depth, but Hermy has an enormous job on his hands in the immediate future. I agree with the last post, his ability to make inroads with the owls over the next 1-3 years will be entirely dependent on how many 0 point players he can attract to build depth and the quality of his imports, as I don't see any of their colts having an impact at senior level. Hopefully I am way off the mark here.
On a different note - Angle Vale must be disappointed on missing out on the Senior Colts flag, despite stacking the team with 17 year olds. Interested to see if there is movement from the other APFL clubs to restrict their ability to play so many 17 year olds and negligible numbers of kids <16 yo in one senior colts team.
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Swamp Donkey on Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.