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It's not so much depth on paper that matters, it's how the talent is coached and plays on the paddock. This year has proven that. So here's mine, listed in a possible first grade playing order, using only those definite stayers who were in this year's top 25:
Hayne - re-signed
Burt - re-signed
Smith B - re-signed
Tahu - under contract
Grothe - under contract
?
Smith T - under contract
Cayless - under contract
Riddell - under contract
Moi Moi - re-signed
Robinson - re-signed
Hindmarsh - under contract
?
Marsh - under contract
Vella - under contract
Cannings - re-signed
Wagon - under contract
Cordoba - re-signed
Tsoulos - re-signed
Green - re-signed, yet to play FG
Hauraki - re-signed, yet to play FG
Oake - under contract, yet to play FG
?
?
?
That's 20 guys, and add to that Todd Lowrie maybe at lock for 21? Meaning there's four spots left for some of these guys from outside this year's top 25 but that have played first grade this year:
Reddy - under contract (22)
Taia - under contract (23)
Inu - under contract (24)
Williams J ? - uncertain
Peek ? - uncertain
Perenara H ? - uncertain
Perenara M ? - uncertain
Lewis ? - uncertain
Afamasaga ? - uncertain, no FG this year
Mateo ? - uncertain, no FG this year
That's if we don't buy anyone extra and with anyone else staying but not listed being included in the part-time PL squad.
So plenty of depth (if not as much as this year, but there's an extra year of experience for these blokes, with more juniors to come up from underneath) and still plenty of room to sign anyone worthwhile at value (eg a first grade standard five-eighth).
Hayne - re-signed
Burt - re-signed
Smith B - re-signed
Tahu - under contract
Grothe - under contract
?
Smith T - under contract
Cayless - under contract
Riddell - under contract
Moi Moi - re-signed
Robinson - re-signed
Hindmarsh - under contract
?
Marsh - under contract
Vella - under contract
Cannings - re-signed
Wagon - under contract
Cordoba - re-signed
Tsoulos - re-signed
Green - re-signed, yet to play FG
Hauraki - re-signed, yet to play FG
Oake - under contract, yet to play FG
?
?
?
That's 20 guys, and add to that Todd Lowrie maybe at lock for 21? Meaning there's four spots left for some of these guys from outside this year's top 25 but that have played first grade this year:
Reddy - under contract (22)
Taia - under contract (23)
Inu - under contract (24)
Williams J ? - uncertain
Peek ? - uncertain
Perenara H ? - uncertain
Perenara M ? - uncertain
Lewis ? - uncertain
Afamasaga ? - uncertain, no FG this year
Mateo ? - uncertain, no FG this year
That's if we don't buy anyone extra and with anyone else staying but not listed being included in the part-time PL squad.
So plenty of depth (if not as much as this year, but there's an extra year of experience for these blokes, with more juniors to come up from underneath) and still plenty of room to sign anyone worthwhile at value (eg a first grade standard five-eighth).
