Premiers wrote:In what order would you rate our crop of young rovers for the upcoming season. My thoughts are Banner (1) assuming continued improvement with another AFL pre-season, Fairclough (2) hasn't progressed much since his debut at 16years and a low possession winner, Goldsworthy (3) shows some class at times, Lane (4) good goal sense but, at present, ? lacks the gut running and pace for consistent league football, Rowntree (5) couldn't translate some big Reserves performances into league quality performances. Petrenko appears to have no sidestep for a good rover, rather he's a straight running Johncock type and Jacky's defensive skills were non-existent last year to be considered as an onballer. So with all these young U20 years rovers, some will be looking to move on if we manage to secure a good quick rover. At this stage we're going to be again relying on our slower (but very capable) midfielders McKenzie, Powell,Treeby, Cicollela, Rimington around the ball. Geez, one classy, quick onballer (dare I say, two) would set us up nicely. But how's the $$$$$ and salary cap going?
They would be well under the cap they were heaps under this year and with kenny,westie ,zack etc going theres even more coin to use