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O'Reilly Boy
Rohan's value as a pressure chaser isn't captured by disposal stats. He's not a mid, inside or out. Nor is he is a distributor off HB. He can break the lines running out of defence, but such opportunities do not arise that often, nor has he ever had the chance to settle into and to develop that role. Nor do I think that his game is suited to the wing. Played at FF he will soak up a KPD and offer a marking option, as well as forward defensive pressure. We need his pace.
Generational change? Let's see, in the last three or four seasons, Heeney, Mills, Papley, Jones, LLoyd, Towers, Hayward, Florent, Mellican, Newman, Naismith, plus Fox, Dawson, Marsh, Aliir, Marsh, Foote, Rose, Robinson . . . plus the Kennedy succession. Of the 2012 GF team, only Kennedy, Hannebery, Parker, Jack, Grundy, Smith, Reid, AJ and McVeigh remain, and we're all talking about Grundy, Smith, McVeigh and Jack moving along in the next two years. Do you want to show Kennedy, Hannebery, Parker and Reid the door too? The team is in the extraordinary position of being the most experienced in finals, while having debuted over a dozen players�most of whom have secured regular places in the 25�in the past two seasons alone. I'm not sure that any organisation (short of the White House) could function with such a level of turn-over in four years, let alone achieve to the level that this team has.
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