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Who is in our best 22?

1 - Jack Silvagni
2 - Paddy Dow
3 - Jesse Motlop
4 - Lochie O'Brien
5 - Adam Cerra
**6 - Zac Williams** Ineligible (out for season)
7 - Matt Kennedy
8 - Lachie Fogarty
9 - Patrick Cripps
10 - Harry McKay
11 - Mitch McGovern
12 - Tom De Koning
13 - Blake Acres
14 - Oliver Hollands
15 - Sam Docherty
16 - Jack Carroll
17 - Brodie Kemp
18 - Sam Walsh
19 - Corey Durdin
20 - Lachie Plowman
21 - Jack Martin
22 - Caleb Marchbank
23 - Jacob Weitering
24 - Nick Newman
25 - Zac Fisher
26 - Lachlan Cowan
27 - Marc Pittonet
28 - David Cuningham
29 - George Hewitt
30 - Charlie Curnow
31 - Harry Lemmey
32 - Jaxon Binns
33 - Lewis Young
**34 - Sam Philp** Ineligible (out for season)
35 - Ed Curnow
36 - Josh Honey
37 - Jordan Boyd
38 - Sam Durdin
41 - Dom Akuei
42 - Adam Saad
44 - Matthew Owies
45 - Alex Mirkov
46 - Matthew Cottrell
New #39 - Alex Cincotta - Injury replacement player
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Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

OK, so here it is, the final 'best 22' for the year.

We've seen how the side performed in finals.
We saw what worked and what didn't all throughout the year.
Using all the information we got, who is in your best 22 now.

Lets assume all players are fit (excluding Williams and Philp to be consistent)
Lets assume all players are still on our list (including delistings, retirees and potential trades)

Pick your best 22.

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #1 –
Saad     Weiters   Boyd
Marchy Gov  Kemp
Acres    Crippa   Doch
JSos    H           Martin
Motlop  Charlie  Cunners
TDK    Cez   Walsh
Int : Hewitt, Cotters, Newy, Owies

Tough to miss :   Pitt, Kennedy, Ollie, Fog, Cincotta, Durds

Inj : Williams

Thats 29 genuine footballers

Still to bring in trades for Dow & Fish  and  at least one first round pick

Still some development in Binns, Cowan, Carrol  (Young??)

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #2 –
I think the biggest tell in these surveys isn't so much who gets a vote, but who doesn't.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #3 –
Quote from: LP – on
I think the biggest tell in these surveys isn't so much who gets a vote, but who doesn't.

Bit of both.

It shows you who your 'first picked' are.
Who your 'there or thereabouts' players are
and
Who your 'not good enough' players are.

Its a bit of a 'wisdom of the masses' kinda thing.

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #4 –
Quote from: LP – on
I think the biggest tell in these surveys isn't so much who gets a vote, but who doesn't.

It's going pretty much as I expected.
Some definites, a few with the split vote...
Surprises...perhaps Fogarty
Seemed to have the coaches support for the job he was doing up until the end, but not a lot of love here at the moment.
Marchbank eased his way back into the side by the end of the year.
Lots of support.
At his best he can be a valuable member of the defence
Hopefully an injury free 2024.
Young has had a poor year, he was probably in  most folks best 22 at the start..not sure what the future holds for him.

I had 26 in my side the first time through.
Struggled to trim it down in the end, and I'm not sure I could create a balanced 22 with the players I selected.
Best 22, and a balanced 22 is a slightly different thing.

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Lods – on
It's going pretty much as I expected.
Some definites, a few with the split vote...
Surprises...perhaps Fogarty
Seemed to have the coaches support for the job he was doing up until the end, but not a lot of love here at the moment.
Marchbank eased his way back into the side by the end of the year.
Lots of support.
At his best he can be a valuable member of the defence
Hopefully an injury free 2024.
Young has had a poor year, he was probably in  most folks best 22 at the start..not sure what the future holds for him.

I had 26 in my side the first time through.
Struggled to trim it down in the end, and I'm not sure I could create a balanced 22 with the players I selected.
Best 22, and a balanced 22 is a slightly different thing.

Ironicly on Marchbank, i did the reverse.
I had him in the team early on (against the trend) and have him out of the team at the end.

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #6 –
B Saad Weitering Kemp
HB Cincotta McGovern Newman
C Acres Cripps Docherty
HF Martin JSOS Cerra
F Motlop C. Curnow Owies
Ruck Pittonet Hewett
Rover Walsh
Int Cottrell, Hollands, Dow, TDK
Emerg Kennedy

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #8 –
100% votes for
- Cez
- Crippa
- Gov
- TDK
- Blacres
- Doch
- Walsh
- Martin
- Weiters
- Charlie
- Saad
- Cotters

Thats 12 with 100% votes - looks about right.  I'd say the only surprises are Cotters in everyone's team (shows how important he is to our structures)  and H out of 1 person's team.   The rest you would pick before the vote was done

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #9 –
Given all the argy bargy on this site I'm surprised that TDK is 100% so far and not Pitto, it suggests people do not truly believe what they post!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #10 –
Not a fan of 'best 22'. Rather a kind of 'core' and then those who are important and rotated for team balance, which factors in form and injury. For this little black duck it's a best 28.
Core (first picked if fit):
Acres
Cerra
Cripps
Curnow
Doc
Gov
H
Hewett
Martin
Newman
Pitto
Saad
TDK
Walsh
Weitering

Rotated through for team balance/need to cover injuries or form loss of core blokes:
Boyd
Cincotta
Cottrell
Cuningham
Fogarty
Hollands
JSOS
Marchbank
Motlop
Owies
Kemp
Kennedy
Williams

Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #11 –
Quote from: LP – on
Given all the argy bargy on this site I'm surprised that TDK is 100% so far and not Pitto, it suggests people do not truly believe what they post!

Maybe you just don't comprehend it. ;)

I think this was the first time i've picked TDK in my best 22 all year....and that was off the back of some (finally) improved form  as a forward and around the ground.

He would've been top 25-30 all year, but couldn't squeeze him in.

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #12 –
Quote from: LP – on
Given all the argy bargy on this site I'm surprised that TDK is 100% so far and not Pitto, it suggests people do not truly believe what they post!
TDK did some ok stuff forward later in the season, provided some options and can kick straight unlike Harry, that why I had him in and Harry out.
Pittonet is a required player to soften up the opposing ruckman for TDK imho, think we saw the awkward Cox doing the same in the finals making it easier for the slightly out of form Cameron to be more effective later in the game

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #13 –
Quote from: Baggers – on
Not a fan of 'best 22'. Rather a kind of 'core' and then those who are important and rotated for team balance, which factors in form and injury. For this little black duck it's a best 28.
Core (first picked if fit):
Acres
Cerra
Cripps
Curnow
Doc
Gov
H
Hewett
Martin
Newman
Pitto
Saad
TDK
Walsh
Weitering

Rotated through for team balance/need to cover injuries or form loss of core blokes:
Boyd
Cincotta
Cottrell
Cuningham
Fogarty
Hollands
JSOS
Marchbank
Motlop
Owies
Kemp
Kennedy
Williams



Thats a great core of 28 - i would add small-Durds to it - and make it 29

plus you have a couple of incoming players (pick 16, a free agent/trade etc) and   binns/cowan/young/carroll that we hope to see improvement from

it SHOULD be a good solid 30-35 players to form a good squad
 

Re: Pick your best 22 - PART 7 - End of season

Reply #14 –
Quote from: kruddler – on
Maybe you just don't comprehend it. ;)
I can comprehend there was a lot of anti-ruck duo discussion on this site, and this survey shows 85% picked a ruck duo, with associated assertions of players being overpaid while underperforming.

So it seems like the noise was coming from a very very noisy minority.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"