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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pick your best 22 of 2025 - Part 4 - Halfway point
B: Cowan Weitering Haynes                                                      
HB: Boyd Silvagni Saad                                                   
 C: Acres Cripps Walsh                                                    
HF: E. Hollands McKay Durdin                                     
F: Motlop Curnow Williams                                                 
R: de Koning Hewett Cincotta                                         
 I: Cerra O. Hollands Lord Docherty S: Cottrell
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: RIP Ian Redpath
                                                   
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Dizzy Gillespie was the first indigenous player wasn't he? Scott Boland has been another. There must be a batsman somewhere surely?
Darcy Short played a few t20s for Australia didn't he ?
                                                                                
 He also played a few ODIs as well. It's been a sadly rare thing for indigenous guys to represent our national cricket team.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: RIP Ian Redpath
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Dizzy Gillespie was the first indigenous player wasn't he? Scott Boland has been another. There must be a batsman somewhere surely?

There were a few first class cricketers but Dizzy was the first test cricketer.

I think Dan Christian played for Australia but he didn’t play any tests.
                                                                              
  Yes, my point was relating to indigenous cricketers who played for Australia only. However, you are correct about Christian playing cricket for Australia but not Test matches. It didn't seem he really was in the frame for a Baggy Green either, despite a good FC record. He just didn't have the FC record needed to play test match cricket for Australia.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: RIP Ian Redpath
Dizzy Gillespie was the first indigenous player wasn't he? Scott Boland has been another. There must be a batsman somewhere surely?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: RIP Ian Redpath
It seems like he would have been a very handy ODI player if he was around a decade later when it was in its early days and the tempo of it was much slower. 83 years is a good long life. RIP Mr. Ian Redpath.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: How will we line up in 2025.
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Flexibility and unpredictability is key. The fact that we don't know where some guys will be playing also means that the opposition won't know either.
But they will be scouting our training sessions, just as we will be scouting theirs  :)
                                                                           
 But that doesn't mean that we can't switch them around during the season or even at training.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: How will we line up in 2025.
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We actually need to see Kemp as the third tall.
For the three games he played at the end of the year he was the second tall in one, and the number one in two of them with Curnow and McKay both missing games.

He'd be a tough matchup for a third tall defender.

I suspect that Kemp will have more success as a third tall forward than he would if we persevered with him as our second tall defender.  He is quick, agile and a very good mark and that should make him a very tough matchup for most third tall defenders.  Of course, given the way our forward line functions, he will be the second tall forward for significant periods of the game.

Hopefully, after he does have a couple of games as a tall forward, it won't be a case of mugs to the backline.
 
His best position is as a running flanker imo.