Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
These 4 players played a key part in our peak form last year
Cash - POTS, brilliant driving force from the back, essential for how we play. Helps get the best out of Lolley too.
Dawson - Leadership, experience, passing ability, dominance. Figs is OK, but he's not in Dawson's class. Sadly, Daws fitness is now another year on.
Watson - Another key leader lost. Colback's a better player in terms of overall ability, but as an organiser it's another loss.
Sow - Pretty much all our best games featured him hustling & bustling in the middle. But, as I think is often the case with ageing imports, their bodies soon give way.
Only Cash was really fit enough to contribute 100% the whole season. But have we replaced any of these 4 players yet? Nope, not for me we haven't. So why are the club expecting us to do as well as we did last year? :dunno:
Freeman's an upgrade on Silva, Blackett & Taylor some nice depth, but none of them have replaced any of 4 key players with qualities which gave us our peak.
Maybe we can adapt to push more emphasis onto Freeman & Taylor, but I don't think that it's recognized just how key these players were to our success in the first half of the season.
This to me was one of the reasons last Jan was so important too. We needed to capitalize on our good fortunes.
Cash - POTS, brilliant driving force from the back, essential for how we play. Helps get the best out of Lolley too.
Dawson - Leadership, experience, passing ability, dominance. Figs is OK, but he's not in Dawson's class. Sadly, Daws fitness is now another year on.
Watson - Another key leader lost. Colback's a better player in terms of overall ability, but as an organiser it's another loss.
Sow - Pretty much all our best games featured him hustling & bustling in the middle. But, as I think is often the case with ageing imports, their bodies soon give way.
Only Cash was really fit enough to contribute 100% the whole season. But have we replaced any of these 4 players yet? Nope, not for me we haven't. So why are the club expecting us to do as well as we did last year? :dunno:
Freeman's an upgrade on Silva, Blackett & Taylor some nice depth, but none of them have replaced any of 4 key players with qualities which gave us our peak.
Maybe we can adapt to push more emphasis onto Freeman & Taylor, but I don't think that it's recognized just how key these players were to our success in the first half of the season.
This to me was one of the reasons last Jan was so important too. We needed to capitalize on our good fortunes.
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