I'm not too fussed about Blakely getting a shot.
He took over RL's strategies quite well and is someone I worry has had these traits trained into him too much. When he first came to the club he found the ball well and just got it forward any way he could. He wasn't the cleanest disposal but he won the contested footy and got it to a contest further up the ground very well.
As RL taught him more, he stopped getting the ball forward and instead always looked to go backwards first, often at the detriment of the team. He'd put other players under pressure with handball and poor disposal and often be a liability regardless of how much of the footy he got.
I think you only have room for a couple of these sort of clearance players and if they're going backwards and making poor decisions when they win it, their use drops dramatically. If we have Fyfe and Brayshaw in there, I can't see room for Blakely. More so if Serong develops into half the player he should be.
