Dapper Dog
Deitz-ciple
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- Feb 14, 2014
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What is known:
Negatives
1. Hoppa / Meaney - Meaney was woeful in CC today. But f*** it. Optimism remember?
2. Katoa / Crichton - I would put these names in a hat and draw one for round 3.
3. Hoppa / Harper / CHN - I'll take any of these 3 for centre at this point
4. Hoppa / Harper / CHN
5. Smith
6. Foran
7. Lewis
8. Ogden
9. Cogger - Has kicks / speed and can play heads up. Optimistically, he will beast it - no prior exp needed.
10. Napa
11. RFM / CHN
12. Martin - Welcome back to FG, old friend.
13. Jackson - No more intercepted passes for you Cap'n
14. Tolman
15. Sue / Fualalo - Remaining optimistic that Sue will never play like he did today
16. Elliot / Fualalo
17. C. Smith / RFM / CHN - (depending on other choices)
Alright. Either I am back in the denial stages of grief, or I am looking at a 1-17 with a lot of promise. It only takes a one / a few bad eggs to completely ruin defence and morale, so with a stronger attacking team (which also has more capable defenders within it), I don't see how this 17 could be any worse than the current. If anything, looking at this team I am now once again optimistic for our first win this season heading into round 3. Bring onnnn the Wests Mbye-gers!
Negatives
- This 1-17 is long odds to win even a single game this season (and most of us already knew this before round 1.....)
- We are the slowest 1-30 in the game
- We are one of the smallest teams across the paddock
- Our once ironclad defence is now the worst in the league
- We are essentially a bye round for every other team
- We have the slowest fullback in the game
- We have the worst centre pairing in the game (possibly of all time?)
- We have the weakest options for hooker of all the teams
- I could keep going but with each line I become more and more negaitve, and this thread is about remaining optimistic
- The ol' cliché: We are at rock-bottom, so the only place we can go is up
- The only way to go up is by adjusting our 17
- We have very good handling (minus some bad eggs)
- Hoppa's hands are as good as any individual's in the comp
- Until our flaws caught up with us, we were capable of strangling out a team
- We have one good winger and one average winger
- We have good halves (imo)
- We have some star forwards
- We are completely written off and it's only round 2. We know that no team is actually out of it this early (even though our current 1 - 17 has no chance in hell)
1. Hoppa / Meaney - Meaney was woeful in CC today. But f*** it. Optimism remember?
2. Katoa / Crichton - I would put these names in a hat and draw one for round 3.
3. Hoppa / Harper / CHN - I'll take any of these 3 for centre at this point
4. Hoppa / Harper / CHN
5. Smith
6. Foran
7. Lewis
8. Ogden
9. Cogger - Has kicks / speed and can play heads up. Optimistically, he will beast it - no prior exp needed.
10. Napa
11. RFM / CHN
12. Martin - Welcome back to FG, old friend.
13. Jackson - No more intercepted passes for you Cap'n
14. Tolman
15. Sue / Fualalo - Remaining optimistic that Sue will never play like he did today
16. Elliot / Fualalo
17. C. Smith / RFM / CHN - (depending on other choices)
Alright. Either I am back in the denial stages of grief, or I am looking at a 1-17 with a lot of promise. It only takes a one / a few bad eggs to completely ruin defence and morale, so with a stronger attacking team (which also has more capable defenders within it), I don't see how this 17 could be any worse than the current. If anything, looking at this team I am now once again optimistic for our first win this season heading into round 3. Bring onnnn the Wests Mbye-gers!