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Who is our best starting 6 backmen?

*** currently vacant
2 - Lachie Cowan
3 - Jesse Motlop
4 - Oliver Hollands
*****Midfield group*****5 - Adam Cerra
6 - Zac Williams
7 - Jagga Smith
8 - Lachie Fogarty
*****Midfield group*****9 - Patrick Cripps
10 - Harry McKay
11 - Mitch McGovern
12 - Ben Ainsworth
13 - Blake Acres
14 - Ollie Florent
15 - Billy Wilson
16 - Ben Camporeale
17 - Brodie Kemp
*****Midfield group*****18 - Sam Walsh
19 - Will Hayward
***20 - Elijah Hollands - currently not on our list
21 - Lucas Camporeale
22 - Harry O'Farrell
23 - Jacob Weitering
24 - Nick Newman
25 - Liam Reidy
26 - Nick Haynes
*****Midfield group*****27 - Marc Pittonet
28 - Harry Charleson
*****Midfield group*****29 - George Hewitt
30 - Jack Ison
31 - Campbell Chesser
32 - Matthew Carroll
33 - Lewis Young
34 - Rob Monahan
35 - Harry Dean
36 - Cooper Lord
37 - Jordan Boyd
***38 - Will White - currently not on our list
39 - Talor Byrne
40 - Hudson O'Keeffe
41 - Matt Duffy
42 - Adam Saad
43 - Ashton Moir
44 - Francis Evans
45 - Flynn Young
46 - Matt Cottrell
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Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #30 –
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Those four are the obvious ones imo, beyond them I’m struggling. Agree re Saad but hopefully he comes back refreshed.

Well, he is sporting a new do  :)
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Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #31 –
Some interesting numbers so far.

Weitering and Haynes
Cowan, Newman and Saad
......
Dean and HOF.
.....
A lot of different smalls......Matt Carroll without a vote thus far despite playing 17 games last year.


Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #32 –
Carroll, Cowan, Dean, Haynes, Saad & Weiters.

I left out HOF as he won't be available til later in the 2026 season.,

Coaches often talk of the 'back seven' so rotation is important. A backman on the bench for rotation? If so, for me it'd be Florent. And the wingman who sags back would be Acres.
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Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #33 –
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Carroll, Cowan, Dean, Haynes, Saad & Weiters.

I left out HOF as he won't be available til later in the 2026 season.,

Coaches often talk of the 'back seven' so rotation is important. A backman on the bench for rotation? If so, for me it'd be Florent. And the wingman who sags back would be Acres.
Did you vote Baggers?
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Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #34 –
B Saad Weitering Cowan
HB Dean OFarrell Newman
Like to see Charleson get some games as I think he has potential for the back pocket, but Saad gets in due to experience and lack of other younger options. Im looking to build the backline for the future with youth as I think we wont be competitive until a few years time when some of our younger players become good senior players.
Chose Newman over Haynes as he uses the ball better and is a leader but dont see either in our next premiership team. Id have Haynes on the bench as injury backup so he will probably get to play a lot of games anyway.

Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #35 –
The love for Saad highlights one of the features that often occur when we're picking sides in a format like this.
We more often than not judge them as the best version of themselves.
When the side is up and running well Saad can look a million dollars running off half-back.
When were struggling and the backline is under pressure we see the other side of Saad-the lack of a defensive presence and little time to dispose.

It's a bit the same when we look at the players we've lost.
Many of us don't see us losing the 32 goal key forward in Curnow.
It's the 80 goal plus Coleman medallist we've lost.

Kruddler mentioned before that we won't get the criticism of some of our newer players until we get a bit more familiar with them...and if you haven't had a good look at them, and done a bit of a read-up on them in the past, that's probably true.
Many casual supporters probably don't have a good appreciation of some of the weaknesses of the newbies
But it's also true of their strengths and how they will contribute to the overall strength of the side.

As a result in activities like the one we're engaged in at the moment folks will go for the 'known'...and the best version of that 'known'.
That will change, and if we were to do this task after a couple of practice games, and more importantly after a half a dozen season proper games, this will probably change considerably.


Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #36 –
Just on Saad, he was playing injured about as much as charlie was.

There was plenty of times he got hit, stayed down, limped off, looked 'dead', but was back out their later, or the next week....only for it to happen again the next week.

Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #37 –
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Quote from: cookie2 – on
Those four are the obvious ones imo, beyond them I’m struggling. Agree re Saad but hopefully he comes back refreshed.

Well, he is sporting a new do  :)

Wow! No hints on how he managed that?
Reality always wins in the end.

Re: Pick our team in parts - Part 2 - Starting 6 backmen (pick 6)

Reply #38 –
Quote from: kruddler – on
Just on Saad, he was playing injured about as much as charlie was.

There was plenty of times he got hit, stayed down, limped off, looked 'dead', but was back out their later, or the next week....only for it to happen again the next week.

Yep
There was that too.

@EB I'd also like to see Charleson get a few senior games this year. Started to win a fair bit of ball towards the end of the season