Predict the Round 1 team - (January edition)

[Stinger]

Now with the National Draft out of the way and the Rookie Draft on today, I'm interested to see how our first 22 changes between now and Round 1.

Here's my team (December'14 Edition)

B: Toovey Frost Williams
HB: Sinclair Brown Langdon
C: Freeman Adams Sidebottom
HF: Broomhead Reid Goldsack
F: Swan Cloke Elliot

Rucks: Witts, Pendlebury, Greenwood
Int: Grundy, Varcoe, Young
Sub: Seedsman

Knocking on the door and needing to train the house down (in order):
Backs: Keefe, Ramsey, Oxley
Midfield: Kennedy, Thomas, Dwyer, Crisp, Marsh
Forwards: Blair, Fasolo, Karnesis, White, (Moore),(De Goey), Gault (R)

Not available: Macaffer & Scharenberg
Others: Maynard, Goodyear, Rookies...

NB: Haven't played seniors for the Pies

[Warbler]

B : Toovey Brown Langdon

HB : Frost Keefe Williams

C : Freeman Adams Sidebottom

HF : Broomhead Reid Goldsack

F : Swan Cloke Elliot

Rucks : Witts Pendlebury Blair
Int : Grundy Dwyer De Goey
Sub : Seedsman

Only time will tell , but I'm desperately hoping for a decent break with injuries .


GO PIES

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

B: Goldsack Frost Williams
HB: Maynard Brown Langdon
C: Varcoe Greenwood Sidebottom
HF: Broomhead Reid DeGoey
F: Fasolo Cloke Elliot

Rucks: Witts, Pendlebury, Swan
Int: Grundy, Freeman, Adams
Sub: Kennedy

Knocking on the door and needing to train the house down (in order):
Backs: Mash, Keeffe, Ramsey, Oxley, Seedsman, Sinclair, Toovey
Midfield: Thomas, Dwyer, Goodyear, Crisp,
Forwards: Blair, Karnesis, White, (Moore), Gault (R)

Not available: Macaffer & Scharenberg
Others: Rookies...

[roar]

The team I would like to see:

B: Williams, Frost, Keeffe,
HB: Langdon, Brown, Maynard
C: Sidey, Greenwood, Varcoe
HF: Broom, Reid, Elliott
FF: Kennedy, Cloke, Karnezis
R: Grundy, Pendles, Swan
Int: Witts, Adams, Freeman, De Goey,

Emergencies from: Fasolo, Seeds, Goldsack, Thomas, Toovey, Sinclair, Marsh, Moore, Crisp.

[RudeBoy]

I don't really expect to see so many new faces so early in the season, but it would be thrilling to see this line-up:

B: Maynard Brown Abbott

HB: Langdon Frost Williams

C: Sidey Pendles Varcoe

HF: Karnezis Cloke De Goey

F: Elliott Reid Witts

Foll: Grundy, Adams, Swan

IC: Moore, Greenwood, Broomhead, Crisp (S)

EM: Seedsman, Fasolo, Keeffe, Crisp

[STOKA35]

B: Goldsack Frost Williams
HB: Young Brown Langdon
C: Varcoe Greenwood Sidebottom
HF: Broomhead Reid White
F: Fasolo Cloke Elliot

Rucks: Witts, Pendlebury, Swan
Int: Grundy, Freeman, Adams , seeds an
Sub: Kennedy


Not available: Macaffer & Scharenberg

[jackcass]

Geez, people are quick to slot in the new kids over guys who've had some time on the list. Varcoe and Greenwood are understandable as they bring solid senior experience but De Goey, Maynard, Goodyear, Moore and our 2 new rookies are a stretch.

And that's with the caviat that I did say to Lazza that all 4 ND selections COULD potentially play round 1 in 2015. Even Freeman, Crisp, Marsh, and Karnezis would all be ahead of them at this stage of preseason.

Not sure I should be loving the optimism you seem to have with the quality of our draftees or concerned about how lowly you rate players already on our list.

[leonmagic]

roar's team is delish

[Fatui Attata]

[Jezza]

[35forever]

A couple of notes.
People seem quick to relegate Tooves to the emergencies. You obviously haven't seen him this year! He's come back looking like the proverbial brick shitter, he's gonna tear it up in 2015!
Same goes for the Caff named as unavailable. I heard he's determined to get a gurnsey in Rd.1, and is bringing Shazza along with him. I expect to see both by round 5!

B: Manteit, Brown, Tooves
HB: Maynard, Langdon, Goodyear
C: Sidey, Greenwood, Crisp
HF: Abbot, Elliot, DeGoey
FF: Karnezis, Moore, Goldy
R: Grundy, Pendles, Swan
Int: Cox, Freeman, Adams, Marley

Emergencies from: Cloke, Frost, Keefe, Broomhead, Armstrong, Witts, Fas, White, Reid, Seedy, JT, Sincs, Marsh, Ramsay, Gault, Dwyer, Oxley, Blair, Young, Caff, Shazza.

Ok, I'm playing funny-buggers, but it's quite amazing how much depth we have, granted that it's very young depth, but frankly I don't see a weak or poor player. I admit I'm not sold on Dasher yet, and a few will certainly need to show something this year. The rookies we got today are two guys selected to fill definite roles, and Dekka seems to think we'll see both at some stage in 2015. Mentiet is a classy back with good skills who would free up Reid to play forward or Langdon/Marley to have a run in the middle, which both are definitely suited to, while Abbot is a bullocking, very quick forward who is excellent overhead and would be a great foil for Clokey.
The biggest thing for me is whether or not Buckley's overly conservative match committee will give the new blokes a run at some stage. We really only have true depth if the new kids have AFL experience. It's very sobering to consider that of the names above at least three will be dumped at the end of 2015.
What I'd really like to see is the AFL wake up to itself and increase AfL lists to 50, the way things are there's no room to develop players or for a player to have a bad year. As it is someone like Sinclair, Dwyer, Gault, Armstrong or Oxley is going to have their AFL dream shattered in a years time.

[Darkstranger]

Just FYI for those cluesless, Reid is a BACKMAN!

[Darkstranger]

Just FYI for those cluesless, Reid is a BACKMAN!

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[John Wren]