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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3119934, member: 9052"] I think around that time we may have been banking on the talent within the 08 Toyota cup class coming through and making up the bulk of the squad... basically what we're doing now. That class had guys like Norman, Beale, Hunt, Glenn, Copley, Moose Maguire, etc. who were highly rated as juniors, but for the bulk didn't really eventuate... there would be forwards in there that I'm missing like Lingwoodock?? (looked like a new Petero), Troyden Watene, Dunamis Lui (hugely rated as a junior), Nick Kenny, etc. but I'm pretty sure Big Pete would know better We also lost Karmichael who was earmarked as Locky's successor to the captaincy and may have been our focal point in attack for years to come. Assuming a stable transition... the young guys would've been coming in with some old heads, but generally had an obvious pathway and some very good veterans like Locky and Hodgo and some very good established players like Karmichael and Thaiday (who was established as a 2nd rower at this point). I think if we kept Petero and Thorn we may have been much better off as the starting pack would be: 8. Petero 10. Solid Vet or a rookie like Maguire 11. Thaiday 12. Thorn 13. Parker Also noting that we should've kept a decent hooker (Berro, Ennis or even Casey Macguire), but a certain hooker was introduced to the Toyota cup and was killing every team with his show and go from dummy half and looked like he could become our very own Cameron Smith [/QUOTE]

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