Right now there was no Kurt, White, Lambie, McGlynn, Mitchell, Incy, Rampe in the 2012 GF team
Goodes, Reid, LRT, AJ, Jetta, Morton and Mattner were in the 2012 GF team and if you had to crudely show replacements despite some roles changing a little like our Captains then here is my best guess.
Goodes = Kurt
Reid = White
LRT = Incy
AJ = Rampe
Jetta = Mitchell
Morto = McGlynn
Mattner = Lambie / BJ even though not correct positionally we have seen Macca go back this season and these guys taking up part of his HFF role
To be honest Goodes had a brilliant finals series but his form in 2012 was not his best via lack of training / injuries. Conversely Tippett and White have come in and doing just as well as Reid and Goodes if not better would be fair at this stage - but can they stand up in the finals ? yes they both will !!!
We had no Mcglynn last year and we get Benny back for I suppose Morto last season - i still think Benny will provide more then Morto thru a finals series
Rampe has in my opinion played just as well as AJ so far and is a super competitor like AJ with much better passing then AJ.
Mattner was a rock in the finals last year and the big question is how we replace his hardness - i suppose Macca will fill in his role partly in the back line ? with Tom Mitchell rising up to fill in for Macca in the midfield and HFF line which Macca played more so in 2012. equal replacements
Incy gets the swingman role of LRT - and although Incy will go close to being able to handle this role very well he is certainly no LRT in a final qtr when an opposition team is just bombing it long into our forward 50 but Incy is on the rise and looked confident on the wknd i though under serious pressure
So the big questions are who replaces Jetta and where does Shaw fit in and does Lambie stay in ahead of BJ or Morto if no one else comes back from injury fast enough? For me Shaw and Incy will probably take on the role of Shaw and Mattner last year unless they want McVeigh to continue being more our backline general ?
B D.Rampe, H.Grundy, N.Smith
HB N.Malceski, T.Richards, Shaw
C C.Bird, R.O'Keefe, J.McVeigh
HF D.Hannebery, J.White, J.Bolton
F McGlynn, K.Tippett, M.Pyke
Foll S.Mumford, J.Kennedy, K.Jack
I/C (from) T.Mitchell, L.Parker, Incy, SUB: J.Lamb
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