BrisbaneRhino wrote:
Ditto. The real shortlist would be which players you'd do everything in your power to keep. The sad answer is not many if anyone half decent was available to replace them.
Which of the older players would anyone be desperate to keep, assuming we had an 'average joe' SL player (or up and comer) able to replace them?
In the backs I'd only put Hurrell and Watkins in that category (assuming Watkins can get back to his former self). In the forwards...Ava, Merrin maybe, Ward if he was ever fit? Its a shockingly short list - I could make a case for letting any of them go if the choice was between them and say a quality 7.
Hurrell, Watkins (with the caveat that he may end up in the second row, which worries me), Ava, Ward, maybe Merrin. Peteru as a squad player depending on his salary. That is a pretty depressing short list given that two of them are under significant injury clouds, another is error prone and another is a bit of an expensive luxury IMO.