Apart from the premise of Macs post above (and I agree with the idea of a Shannon Boyd type) are we significantly at risk of being a couple of table places down on what people thought we might achieve this year, on potential, with the season ending injury to Moga?
I'm not in doom and gloom mode but I think the centres was the one area we couldn't afford to have a major loss. With Moga out for the year, probably the best up an comer in Meaney out for a period and Pythian's implosion taking away another option for us, our first grade quality ranks are very low. Without Brown and Mooney picking up some suitable, at least journeyman type centre, I think we are likely to be affected in our overall position on the ladder by the end of the season.
We might fashion a suitable backline that can hold it's own out of SKD, Ross plus some of the younger players coming through as fill in options but I think without Moga, we might be 1 or 2 games further off the pace than I envisaged us being come round 26 which takes us further out of calculations for being in the mix for the 8 this year - what do others think?