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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3635847, member: 9052"] Just further to this one and there's a few other examples of relying on youth coming through. We lost Herbie, Flegs, Capewell and Palasia from the grand final team, that's just about 400 games of experience, and they've mostly been replaced with kids. - Willison looks like he'll be able to replace Flegler, but we got 50mins a game out of Flegler... we're only getting 35 out of Willison - Piakura looks like he can replace Capewell, and looks like he can pretty much become just about anything at the position, but is way off on his effort areas and 1%'ers (an absolute staple of Capewell's game) - Palasia hasn't really been replaced at this point... they've tried with Baker, but he's not looking up to first grade at this point and it's been a revolving door trying other options. - Of the replacements Cobbo has been able to replace Herbie, but Cobbo was a starter already so his replacement was Mariner... who looks like he'll become an elite winger, but isn't there yet We lost 375 games of experience last year and basically replaced them with 77 games... that is a **** ton of NRL experience lost and hoping the young guys can step up and replicate it. I'm concerned this year is basically turning into a gap year / rebuilding year with the amount of experience we're trying to replace. Losses - Herbie (79 games for broncos) - Flegs (96 games for broncos) - Capewell (147 games total now) - Palasia (53 games for broncos) Total 375 games experience Replacements - Cobbo (49 games at start of the year), but Cobbo's spot was replaced by Mariner (6 games at the start of the year) - Willison (11 games at start of the year) - Piakura (15 games at start of the year) - Baker (45 games at the start of the year) Total 120 games, but basically 77 games when you remove Cobbo There's also a lot of spots across the squad that just don't look like they're providing much value or capability to fulfil a role when needed in first grade. Is there much of a future at the club for Taupau, Pereira, Hoeter, Paix and Oates, or even use for them for the rest of this season? (I think Hoeter and Pereira are season injuries anyway, but was there much of a plan to use them at the start of the year or were they just wanting to fill roster spots with minimum wage players) That is a lot of potentially wasted roster spots when you've only got 13 other spots outside your top 17. These guys need to be the next man up, and then a sprinkling of youth and potential to round out the squad, but at the moment the youth is looking like the next best depth (Willison, Te Kura and Karapani). Gos at least has a role he can play for the season, but should we be relying on him as a regular in the 17 and next man up on the edges? Hunt I haven't seen enough of, but he seems to be down the order and getting used as a second rower... they've got him listed as 110kg (bigger than Baker)... I wouldn't mind seeing him again.. I think he does have aggression and physicality in him (based only on the trials), but not sure if you can run with a bench of him and Kobe. [/QUOTE]

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