Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:27 pm
To put together a rough starting 13 of what we have so far:Rapana
Martin
Hardaker
Chamberlain
Briscoe
Abdul
Sezer
Ese'ese
Cust
Aydin
Holmes
Cartwright
Asiata
That is, besides Martin and Ese'ese, a completely new squad to what started round one of this season. It certainly does feel like the "transition period" we seem to have been stuck in for years is coming to an end.
Would I have liked to have seen some more exciting names in that squad? Absolutely. Do I think we still look weak in certain areas? No doubt about it.
But what i will give Myler credit for is that this, for the first time in a while, feels like a completely clean slate. I don't expect that 13 to contend for top 6, but having trying to look at it from an optimist point of view, it is at least a starting point for us to move forward. It is also by far and away better than what we started this season with, not that it was a difficult task.
Asiata, Rapana and by all accounts Hardaker (if you chose to ignore his off-field antics) are good leaders to have within the squad, which is something we have been desperately lacking since Ellis retired.
