Today, we look at the Doggies, our last team.
List:
The Doggies’ list looks good. You can see on the list that they have a good spread of height ranges over their age groups.
The only area where they look thin is across the taller-medium (186-189cms) group. One might suspect that they will focus in this area in the coming draft.
Also, they appear to have overdone the 200+ cms group. Lobb is their 200cm tall in defence, English is their ruck, and Sam Darcy is their 200cm forward. Darcy will play ruck in the future, Croft will play as key forward when Darcy moves into the ruck, Lou Emmett is a junior ruck, as is Lachie Smith. Hence a surfeit of ruckmen.
Budarick has been brought in for the injured Weightman, but the stats question his goalkicking talent. Maybe it’s time for him to go down back, but he needs more of the ball.
The Doggies look okay, 9th last season, and will also be thereabouts with surrounding clubs, especially with the new wild-card final.
Select 23:
The Doggies are fairly settled, but their back half needs a little rejigging. Buku Kamis can add some agility to the experienced Bramble. Dale, Williams, then Lobb and O’Donnell. Garcia should become a core small forward/midfielder this season.
Croft is talented and should gain with part-time experience on the bench.
What is crucial this season will be the careers of Trelour and Harmes. Although they’ve had past successes, Trelour is a twilighter and played only 4 games last season. While Harmes, another twilighter, hasn’t played a full season in 3 years. I’ve put both on the bench. Baker is another who looked like he’d clicked in 2023, but has been recovering since. All three might be omitted midseason.
Bulldogs Select 23:
B: Bramble, Kamis, Lobb
HB: Dale, O’Donnell, Williams
C: Davidson, Richards, Sanders
HF: M.Kennedy, Naughton, Freijah
F: West, S.Darcy, Garcia
R: English, Bontempelli, Liberatore
I: Croft, Trelour, Harmes, Baker, Vandermeer
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It was 25 years ago that I began developing a model for analysing footy squad lists for the purpose of improving those lists into a premiership window. Since then, the model has been used to successfully predict premiership clubs and to improve either lop-sided or underdeveloped lists into premiership lists. Indeed, the model was used for an article that I had published as a double page spread in The Age 2005 Pre-Season magazine. Over the 25 years, I have analysed the annual lists of one particular club but have used it for other clubs upon request. It has always been on my bucket list to display the lists of all the clubs, using the model, which I've done since 2021 on my website - OzFootyListManager.com
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