OK, Scumwood gets to pick now. We were getting hopeful that Lachlan Plowman would last a couple more picks so we could retire Nick Maxwell early but no such luck.
Having two consecutive picks here makes life a little bit easier for us. We reckon we need a few players to get us back to Premiership-winning form but the most important weakness that we have to address is our forward line, especially our tall forwards. What we learnt in 2012 was that once Travis Cloke is distracted, we got nuthin'. Dawes was about as useful as a $5 unbrella in a hurricane and we couldn't wait to dump him. But what alternatives do we have? Jackson Paine is still young, the Big Q might help, but only for a year or two and after that the pantry is empty. We need Power Forwards, strong, reliable ones like Cloke, not big doofus types like Dawes. Its a pity that there isn't much available to us here.
Thank God for Tim Membrey. Only 188 cms, which is not that big a deal, he's about the same height as Dunstall and Brereton. He is a big, strong, country lad with plenty of tricks and about as close as we are going to get to what we need.
Pick 18: Tim Membrey.
This is a midfielder's draft, so we have to make sure we get one of those as well, we are negligent if we don't. We were hoping for Nathan Hrovat, but alas, the last couple of picks have not been good to us.
Pick 19: Sam Colquhuon. That's the sort of midfielder we like, quick and skilful.
