by Archer Tue Feb 27, 2018 7:52 pm
Liverpool_Bulldog wrote:Thoughts on Leilua and Croker this year pal, alternatively will your lads be returning to 2016 form??
I like Croker, BJ didn't impress me in the trial and although the same could be said for others (including Croker i guess) they've got more runs on the board for me to trust them. Then again BJ just had a kid, so potentially that was distracting him and or could be a motivating factor for him this year. I picked him up in my draft squad so I'm not totally cold on him.
As for team form its anyone's guess. I think i wrote them off like most when i heard the Hodgo news, but I've slowly come around to thinking they might stand a chance. We had hodgo in 2017 and it wasn't a successful season by any measure so 2016 can't be attributed solely to him, it had to be more. I quite liked what i saw of the backups we've got at 9 and with some of the youngsters pushing up (and the return of williams) we've got some depth back into the squad which might keep some of the starting 17 on their toes (which is possibly one of the bigger reasons for 2016, we had enough depth that we finished where we did with guys like Fenno and Vaughan running around in the ressies).