I was very critical of Croker's defence early in the year but as the season went on he got better and better. His defensive reads were brilliant 9 times out of 10 and his one on one tackling improved out of sight. Sounds silly but I am pretty sure his diabloical defence early in the season was because he'd been solely a right centre for 3 years in juniors and went straight to left centre in first grade. His side of the field with Campo became really tight. Whereas Monaghan/McCrone or Herbert/Bronson Harrison were ****ing balls all year.
From what I saw, his one on one defense was the main problem. He looked to be able to read everything fine, but everytime he got isolated it'd ineivatably be an ineffective tackle. Maybe he just doesn't have the size/strength yet.
1.Kevin Locke/Josh Dugan 2.Denan Kemp 3.Jarrod Croker 4.Blake Ferguson 5.Kevin Gordon 6.Daniel Mortimer 7.Tim Moltzen 8.Josh McGuire 9.Andrew McCullough 10.Tim Mannah 11.Ben Matulino 12.Steve Rapira 13.Alex Glenn 14.Russell Packer 15.James Tamou 16.Kevin Proctor 17.Lewis Brown Theres just a team of really young/inexperience guns off the top of my head. Blake Ayshford Jared Waerea-Hargreaves Dave Tyrrell Tom Symonds Travis Waddell Kieran Foran Jharal Yow Yeh Antonio Winterstein Bryson Goodwin Are some backups.
how young do you have to be to qualify? surely Folau, Hayne, Inglis, Inu ect should be in the teams, people forget they are still very young 20's just because they have made names for themselves.
1. Josh Dugan 2. Antonio Winterstein 3. Chris Lawrence 4. Kevin Gordon 5. Brett Morris 6. Todd Carney 7. Tim Moltzen 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Andrew McCullogh 10. Luke Douglas 11. 12. Adam Blair 13. Alex Glenn 14. Russell Packer 15. Sam Rapira 16. Ben Murdoch 17. Ben Barba
Sam Burgess would be in it And Eddy Pettybourne And Dave Taylor. The best of three nations young forwards.