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So what might next year's team look like at its best?
Perhaps something like:
B: B Mathews, A Schauble, M Nicks
HB: L Barry, C Bolton, J Crouch
C: T Kennelly, [new midfielder], J Bolton
HF: R O'Keefe, B Hall, N Davis
F: A Schneider, M O'Loughlin, P Williams
R: S Doyle, A Goodes, B Kirk
I: S Maxfield, J Ball, P Bevan, A Buchanan
Others:
J Saddington
L Roberts-Thompson
L Ablett
J McVeigh
N Fosdike
B Fixter
H James
M Powell
A Rogers
J Thewlis
S Dempster
N Malceski
S McGlone
T Schmidt
The big problem putting this together was working out who to leave out. I had Saddington, McVeigh, and Ablett in there to start with, and I simply dropped them out for space.
What is difficult is that a few players pick themselves, and then the vast majority of the remainder of our team are fairly equal. Good in that they all should try harder to retain their spot, hence producing a better effort, but bad in that most are ordinary footballers - solid but not outstanding.
We have a few youngsters coming through, which is good, and if they are very good they will push out some of the ordinary players currently filling spots. If they are not, then the team dynamic will not change a lot.
Just to circumvent all the trade threads, and perhaps put them here with some parameters around them, what trades would we look for and what spots would they fill, who would make way, and how would we like the team to look?
I've said that we need two good midfielders and perhaps a CHB. I have one new midfielder in above, so who would I drop for the other - perhaps Schneider or Buchanan. Maybe even Mathews, and then put Saddington into the BP. If we put in a new CHB, then perhaps Mathews or Nicks would go.
Perhaps something like:
B: B Mathews, A Schauble, M Nicks
HB: L Barry, C Bolton, J Crouch
C: T Kennelly, [new midfielder], J Bolton
HF: R O'Keefe, B Hall, N Davis
F: A Schneider, M O'Loughlin, P Williams
R: S Doyle, A Goodes, B Kirk
I: S Maxfield, J Ball, P Bevan, A Buchanan
Others:
J Saddington
L Roberts-Thompson
L Ablett
J McVeigh
N Fosdike
B Fixter
H James
M Powell
A Rogers
J Thewlis
S Dempster
N Malceski
S McGlone
T Schmidt
The big problem putting this together was working out who to leave out. I had Saddington, McVeigh, and Ablett in there to start with, and I simply dropped them out for space.
What is difficult is that a few players pick themselves, and then the vast majority of the remainder of our team are fairly equal. Good in that they all should try harder to retain their spot, hence producing a better effort, but bad in that most are ordinary footballers - solid but not outstanding.
We have a few youngsters coming through, which is good, and if they are very good they will push out some of the ordinary players currently filling spots. If they are not, then the team dynamic will not change a lot.
Just to circumvent all the trade threads, and perhaps put them here with some parameters around them, what trades would we look for and what spots would they fill, who would make way, and how would we like the team to look?
I've said that we need two good midfielders and perhaps a CHB. I have one new midfielder in above, so who would I drop for the other - perhaps Schneider or Buchanan. Maybe even Mathews, and then put Saddington into the BP. If we put in a new CHB, then perhaps Mathews or Nicks would go.
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