Honestly its so easy to get complacent that we are currently running: one 7, one 9, one 1, one 6.. and somehow we have barely had an injury this year, but compare us to many other sides in the comp that have literally not even had their main spines on the field at the same time.. for huge chunks of the year.
Cook gives us that 1-2 punch, it stops us trying to run liddle 80mins a week, and it gives us some proper cover for injury in that position, and im sure he could cover halves injuries during a game... plus I actually think hes going to bring us to life in the back end of halves... but thats a bonus on top.
One of Flanno's jobs is going to be getting real cover for 1,6,7 now.. if we sign Holmes + MaxF, then im ok because if Sloan goes down, Val goes to 1, Max to RCtr, Suli to LCtr.. its disruptive but its the bare minimum if we arent signing anyone else... if we have a couple of injuries though.. its gonna get ugly fast... we lost a lot of nsw cup depth.. or rather we will if rava+bird go.
The other position we need to cover is 6&7, there are a few ways we can do this.. but we need Marshke or better.. honestly how many serious halves injuries do you see in almost every side.. like we dont want to throw away a year when we get 1 key injury.. thats where we are trying to get too.. but it takes time because some of that 2nd or 3rd string depth should be the young ones in NSW Cup.. which isnt really happening yet.. its still a work in progress, we are developing those 17-18-19yr olds now... toughening up our Flegg team and eventually Cup.. but it takes years to make first graders out of them.
I can however understand that Flanno wants his pack to kick butt... thats his priority and im good with it.... he wants to be able to bash teams every week and keep his team in the contest at the very minimum... I can get behind that idea.
