Possible Round 1 team 2019/Best 22

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

Just to place my comment about his Freo Grand Final in context, this is what I posted in the Hawks v Dockers Grand Final thread at 3.37 pm on 28 September 2013 (I can't just quote it because the thread is locked).

doriswilgus wrote:
Fremantle dreadful.This is the worst finals performance......since us three weeks ago against Port Adelaide.
That may be - but the thing is, in 6 months' time, no-one (except the usual Nick's grumps) will care about Collingwood's below-par performance, whereas if your team does this in a Grand Final, you never really get over it.

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Pearce, Fyffe and Mayne should all reflect carefully on their performances - they have failed big time, so far.

[tbaker]

We are assuming that such a "best 22" side has everyone at full fitness. Accordingly, can't believe how most of you would have Wells out of the best 22 side. As much as I like Sier, the return of Beams (and fitness of Wells) puts his spot in some jeopardy

[Pies2016]

[Johnno75]

[Presti35]

Yeah it's early, but so what.

From the OP, they have made the following changes from the GF team;

IN: Moore, Elliott, Beams.

OUT: Goldsack, Aish, Greenwood.

With Blair, Reid, Brown & Appleby being replaced as the emergencies by Wells, Goldsack, Aish & Roughead.

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

That backline has too many talls. You forgot to leave Langdon out.

[Tannin]

[Pies2016]

[Tannin]

^ Good thinking there. Pies 2016. Possibly Aish would replace Varcoe or Thomas. Actually, come to think of it, Varcoe can play HBF, he;'s pretty good at it. Crisp and Maynard play small when required, as does Langdon to a lesser extent.

Love Varcoe, he's just about my favourite player, but you have to wonder how many years he has left in him now.

Pendlebury, of course, has never contested a ground ball in his life and wouldn't be any good at it ... er ...

[MAY-Z]

[stui magpie]

[tbaker]

[Hooyah]

We’re in a very strange predicament with our list at the moment, I believe our biggest strength is also our biggest weakness. We have so many players that can play multiple positions and usually when that happens some players thrive and some fall out of favour. It’s hard to think that most of these 22 predictions will be wrong but in all likely good how many of this years changes did we all predict? Probably not too many.

The good news is we got great form out of players we might not have room for in the future, I can see us trading out 1-2 out of favour smaller forward types at the end of next year as we have a surplus of those now.
If Elliot recaptures his form then someone has to make way, and it boggles me who he would replace
Stephenson the young gun? Unlikely, too early for him to play mid
W-HE tapered off and went up the ground but still had a great year
JDG- apart from 5 minute spirts in the mid he will be at FF or the picket all year
Thomas has a long contract of 3 years and we clearly rate him forward

I fear Crocker,Daicos & Browne will struggle to get many games unless we get destroyed by injuries in the front half this time.

I like the beams pickup, he would slot in very well in a middle/half forward role swapping with Thomas or JDG he’s older so maybe not as many mid field minutes but that’s hardly a concern with our depth.

I’d suggest that pendles will slide in behind the ball a bit more allowing Sidey to be a little bit more focused on attacking. Or perhaps Sidey will stay wing/behind the ball and that frees pendles to be the link up kick from themiddle to the forwards.

Pushing our mids outside of the middle will have a ripple effect on the team and will challenge players like Mayne, Aish, Varcoe,Thomas, WH-E, Greenwood, Etc. This can only be a good thing.

With the new ruck rules our midfield won’t be as easy to shutdown, even from behind we can score heavily and quickly with the 6-6-6 and Grundy being able to tap it to the best mids in the comp or take it himself and bomb it on the boot.

Seir? (Spelling) will struggle to get a game unless we see a slump or injury from our proven mids. He’s a gun and will get his chance but beams, and possibly wells coming back in with Treloar now fit could make it hard for his type.


I think if we get the same buy in as we did this year, which should happen because they all know the heartache now those who missed our, those who lost and those who did not perform will all be hungry and will all have to earn every game. Then we can easily push for top 4 and another deep finals run.

Essendon, Tigers, Eagles & Melbourne have all improved their squads and will have big players returning so we willl need to lift dramatically just to finish 3rd again.