All that said, I rate your side a better than you. If Hook can fix their heads, blokes like Hunt can be the best in the game. AM should make a positive contribution, Bird was legend once and tbh it’s better in the long term that Cam is gone. His continued presence in the squad would be a untenable socially. He’s not with the program except his own.
If Hook can fix these blokes' heads then he deserves to be made an Immortal.
Appreciate your positivity but can simply not see them turning it around enough to be semi competitive against decent teams. That will require a good year of recruitment and nurturing the likes of Feagaii, Sullivan and Ramsey.
Currently, our key backs would all admit they have deficiencies ( eg dufty defence, Lomax and rava handling errors, hunt mentality, Norman is a myth) in their game and are left to drag the rest of the team forward.
As for the forwards, they have continuously been trampled over in recent times. Where we once we had jdb, a rampaging Sims and a surging vaughan they now for a good while seem like older deadwood amongst others who are 'green' but just not advancing. How long do we have to wait for the likes of Kerr, Lawrie and Ford to really stamp their authority in first grade? That whole excuse is wearing thin. Maybe Hook can do something there but it's one heck of a job.
I just hope Griffin tore into our forwards last night. There was nothing there that was praiseworthy. McGregor would be playing golf with them but we need a coach to give them a reality check and move them to the reserves.
Rebuilding is to be expected but the buzz around a new season has been toned out by another very cat like performance.
