Well looking at this another way- we won’t have the opposition having signed a contract to pay our best available player a million dollars next year.
We will have Waine, who is due a scoring run. We will have a bunch of other players who played great during a cup run. We may have Sandoval and Piscopo hitting form.
We’ve got Ball, Sutton and Fenton. We’ve got Wootton and Tim Payne. Lewis is one of our senior footballers.
Ben Old will get a chance to shine.
Bigger ask than when we had Hemed and Davila mowing them down.
But no reason we can’t make the finals.
Edit: geez and I forgot the marvelous Ollie Sail. Genuinely I would play him up front for part of some games, as he’s huge and has good feet, and Paulsen is a decent deputy. That and I’m of lesser footballing intelligence than most!
Perhaps as well one of the new guys has a Ben Waine like break-through performance…Is it Ott that was called Mt. Ott upfront by the commentators?