Now, Brisbane.
Vossy began his coaching tenure at Brissie with a bang by having them into the finals in his first year. As I recall, the first time since the losing GF of 2004. This is a credit to the Brisbane staff who seemingly have transformed a squad that has gone from a golden premiership era, 2001-2003, gone through a rebuilding phase, then just re-entered the finals again. Well done!
What does the future hold?
Their list is as follows:
I'm stunned when I look at the Brisbane list. Why so many smaller-mediums - 19? Why do they need 12 junior smaller-mediums?
Maybe they need that many runners taking Qld's heat into consideration.
Maybe they reckon, if they can get 8 star inside midfielders out of this group, that they can build a future on it.
Maybe they're trying to corner the market for this type. Stuns me!
They do have 26 players split along the developmental, mature & twilighter areas. Especially KPPs in the mature zone.
This would indicate that they probably will play finals again in 2010 but this also indicates that they will probably be fringe finalists again.
For me, it will be interesting to see where they are in 3 or 4 years time with their KPPs moving from the mature phase into the twilighter phase, with only a handful of junior/developing KPPs to come up in the future.
Vossy began his coaching tenure at Brissie with a bang by having them into the finals in his first year. As I recall, the first time since the losing GF of 2004. This is a credit to the Brisbane staff who seemingly have transformed a squad that has gone from a golden premiership era, 2001-2003, gone through a rebuilding phase, then just re-entered the finals again. Well done!
What does the future hold?
Their list is as follows:
| 175-179 | 180-184 | 185-189 | 190-194 | 195-199 | 200+ | |
| 28+ | Power 30 179 M | Johnstone 29 184 M | Black 31 186 M | Fevola 29 191 F | Brown 28 195 F | |
| 25-27 | Buchanan 27 179 F | Clarke 26 182 U | Drummond 26 188 D | Brennan 25 192 U | Charman 27 197 R | |
| Mcgrath 26 182 D | Selwood 25 187 M | Maguire 25 190 D | Merrett 25 196 D | |||
| Patful 25 190 D | Staker 25 196 U | |||||
| 22-24 | Adcock 24 184 D | Stiller 23 186 M | Clark 22 198 R | Mccauley 23 200 R | ||
| Raines 24 183 D | ||||||
| Rischitelli 24 184 M | ||||||
| Sherman 23 184 M | ||||||
| 18-21 | Bartlett 19 179 M | Proud 21 180 M | Hawksley 21 187 D | Collier 21 192 D | Mcculloch 19 199 R | Leuenberger 21 203 R |
| Polkinghorne 21 183 F | Austin 20 187 U | Cornelius 19 192 F | Mckeever 21 198 R | |||
| Hanley 21 184 D | Redden 19 189 M | Retzlaff 18 192 U | ||||
| Sheldon 21 183 M | Yoshiura 18 185 M | |||||
| Rockliff 20 183 F | ||||||
| Banfield 19 182 M | ||||||
| Obrien 19 184 U | ||||||
| Rich 19 184 M | ||||||
| Harwood 18 183 M | ||||||
| Beams 18 182 M | ||||||
| Dyson 18 181 M | ||||||
| Golby 18 183 D |
I'm stunned when I look at the Brisbane list. Why so many smaller-mediums - 19? Why do they need 12 junior smaller-mediums?
Maybe they need that many runners taking Qld's heat into consideration.
Maybe they reckon, if they can get 8 star inside midfielders out of this group, that they can build a future on it.
Maybe they're trying to corner the market for this type. Stuns me!
They do have 26 players split along the developmental, mature & twilighter areas. Especially KPPs in the mature zone.
This would indicate that they probably will play finals again in 2010 but this also indicates that they will probably be fringe finalists again.
For me, it will be interesting to see where they are in 3 or 4 years time with their KPPs moving from the mature phase into the twilighter phase, with only a handful of junior/developing KPPs to come up in the future.
