It's very hard to gauge how the teams stack up from pre-season games.......but particularly games like the Port one where there were so many early injuries......whilst players all want to compete once they're out on the ground, the desire for the contest starts to dissipate pretty quickly in a meaningless pre-season game once the injury toll starts to mount up. Astbury looked ok, Deledio got a run and didn't pull up sore....Hampson still can't take a mark to save himself.......Menedue coming along nicely.....Apart from that, nothing much else to see....
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Can't see any promising signs
- Thread starter joegarra
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To get a chance at finals redemption we need a load of these things to happen.
Cotch to return to his best form.
Lids to play 20 ish games
Jack and rance and Miles and Houli not to slide.(most confident of this being the case)
Dusty to become one of the most influential mids in the game.
Need to go up another level...
Tyrone, sheds, Flossy, B Ellis, KMac, Lennon, Conca (injury makes him a virtual right off.)
Need to become best 22...
C Ellis, Xanadu.
Must succeed at the role's targeted...
Yarran, Townsend (or moore.)
Must be Overtaken...
Chaplin.
Conca gone, that would give us 18 very valuable players with a fantastic best 7. But the chance of all of that happening is slim. Maybe not promising signs, but reason to hope.
Some one jumping out of the box and taking the comp by surprise wouldn't hurt either.
Cotch to return to his best form.
Lids to play 20 ish games
Jack and rance and Miles and Houli not to slide.(most confident of this being the case)
Dusty to become one of the most influential mids in the game.
Need to go up another level...
Tyrone, sheds, Flossy, B Ellis, KMac, Lennon, Conca (injury makes him a virtual right off.)
Need to become best 22...
C Ellis, Xanadu.
Must succeed at the role's targeted...
Yarran, Townsend (or moore.)
Must be Overtaken...
Chaplin.
Conca gone, that would give us 18 very valuable players with a fantastic best 7. But the chance of all of that happening is slim. Maybe not promising signs, but reason to hope.
Some one jumping out of the box and taking the comp by surprise wouldn't hurt either.
Midsy said:
Yeah, its a massive issue, but I don't see an answer other than making do with what we have and making the most of it.
evo said:
I have old man eyes, I find uninterrupted line after line sentence after sentence really hard to read. If I do I assume many of the other ole farts here do as well. I know you usually need to keep a post to a couple of lines for it to be read by the majority. But sometimes when you have something to say, you just gotta post a essay. So my theory is at least some of my little short statements will get read. Hwnce, Short point. Lots of space, sentence lots of space. You gotta have a theory anyway. Thats mine. Se how this solid block just dosn't make you want to read any of it. Well apart from the fact I wrote it being the most obvious reason not to read it. Well anyway EVO, hopefully this solid block meets your stylistic requirements. However Im guessing that you didn't make it this far into this pointless solid block of world wasting that Im writing to try make a point. A point that know one will bother to read cause a)Its from me. B) its is a solid slab of letters. Cheers.
ninjahaha said:
The improvement has got to come from this group. Otherwise we don't improve at all.
Agree!
Menadue, Lennon , CEllis, if Rioli can crack if for some games, and any number of others recruited by the club the last 2-3 years.
The crop of players mentioned by others plus Griff, if Hampson can keep on the park and help Maric for at least 6-12 games, Astbury can stay injury free etc!
There are big ifs there.
With players going down plus quite a number with injury concerns on them that the second tier players will have to improve another at least 5-10 % for the Tigers to even stay in the 8 and be competitive otherwise it's going to be a difficult and somewhat trying year.
We can't too many others going down as our depth will be tested.
We may see a few really stake a claim for a spot,heck we may even unearth someone!
We might even go backwards to forwards!!!!
Menadue, Lennon , CEllis, if Rioli can crack if for some games, and any number of others recruited by the club the last 2-3 years.
The crop of players mentioned by others plus Griff, if Hampson can keep on the park and help Maric for at least 6-12 games, Astbury can stay injury free etc!
There are big ifs there.
With players going down plus quite a number with injury concerns on them that the second tier players will have to improve another at least 5-10 % for the Tigers to even stay in the 8 and be competitive otherwise it's going to be a difficult and somewhat trying year.
We can't too many others going down as our depth will be tested.
We may see a few really stake a claim for a spot,heck we may even unearth someone!
We might even go backwards to forwards!!!!
Barring injuries, the most important improvement needs to come from Griff & Vickery - both in their roles as 2nd KF and support ruck. If both were to realise some of their talent and make significant improvement in their contributions we will get Top 4 IMO.
Ghost of Punt Road
Tiger Champion
