Knighta said:
Unfortunately for you the club doesn't pick their teams to satisfy you palat. Griffiths and Astbury are in defence, Elton can't finish nor chase and tackle as well as mcguane and Edwards has shown nothing close to mcguane this pre season.
This is exactly the problem. The 3rd tall can't be 200cm tall unless you want opposition clubs running out of our forward line like we were running out of the Bombers forward line last week.
Personally i'm more than comfortable with McGuane playing first round despite some limitations. If we had a team full of players with no limitations we'd have to dismantle it for salary cap reasons.
Here's a reality check: Sydney won a premiership with two player rated as 'Below Average' relative to their peers: Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Mitch Morton. Hawthorn had one below average player: Shane Savage and you could easily argue Ryan Shoenmakers should slot into that category.
Sydney also had a number of average rated players that day, and most were rated at the lower end of average: Marty Mattner, Alex Johnson, and Sam Ried.
Like it or not, Luke McGuane is rated at the higher end of the average category, and sure it's just based on Champion Data figures but some here have to concede that there is a lot he's doing right.
For one, he's one of the few that seems to have some composure with his set shots and we sure as hell could use that at the moment. We've kicked something like 3.10 v Melb, 6.8 v NM and 10.20 v Ess
That's 19.38 so far this pre-season. At the moment a lot of our players might as well be kicking it with their plonka.
