I take your point Hypen, but we need to match up with Cameron and Finlayson, who are both guns. A Pearce can handle one of them – let’s say Cameron - but then who picks up Finlayson in Hamling’s absence? He’s 196cm, so it’s not one of our shorter backs from last week, Nyhuis is only 188cm, and Cox is too slow.
All I’m saying is that if he gets off the leash Hogan has as good a chance as anyone to try and stop him. I don’t know why it’s so heretic to consider it.
Yeti, I only ask about the ‘nobody but Roly’ thing because there is literally no-one on Dockerland who believes that (I think we lost the one poster who might have believed that). I even posted a list last year of coaches I would prefer to have than Lyon. FWIW, currently that list is Clarkson, Dew, C Scott and Fagan as definites, Buckley, Hardwick, Longmire and Beveridge as probablies, and B Scott, Goodwin, Cameron, Worsfold, Bolton, Hinkley, Pyke and Richardson as probably nots.
You’re smart enough to understand the problems with strawman arguments, so I don’t understand why you feel you need to do it. There isn’t one crowd versus another crowd, there’s just a bunch of Freo fans trying to figure out why we aren’t better.