Another win, and a sizeable one, beating Williamstown by 15 goals, final scores:
Werribee 5.5 10.7 16.10 25.15 (165)
Williamstown 2.3 5.8 9.12 10.14 (74)
They have got good use from the Bulldogs list. Todays Bests all Footscray players in Power Griffen Murphy Robbins Koops Morgan. Their two wins have been impressive, however their depth might be the weakness, with the Tigers twos beaten by 10 goals.
Are they a top 4 side?
They look the real deal Onslaught. It was a demolition job today.
They will no doubt lose Matty Robbins in the next week or two back to the Bulldogs, and I suspect Adam Morgan will be pulled out to replace Brian Harris in thh Bulldogs defence. The Dogs didn't have a large injury list prior to today so I guess they've had a decent list to pick at Werribee.
Their VFL group of players - Sleeman, Hassan, O'Sulivan, Podsiadly, Robertson, Henderson, Gleeson are decent players. In my view Podsiadly, Hassan and O'Sullivan aren't just handy players, I reckon they are game breakers. The rest are good enough to add depth.
From the reserves today the likes of James Allan, Scott Howard, Aaron Rau could push up fairly quickly. I also think there are a couple of others that look likely senior types in the next few months.
The AFL players today included Farren Ray, Robbins, Minson, Power, Koops, Skipper, B Murphy, Street, Morgan - five of them played Bulldogs in Round 22 last year. Add to that two early draft picks in Williams and Griffen. Thats a handy bunch.
I wouldn't pay to much attention to the reserves score in term of finding depth on the list, Williamstown are a very strong reserves side traditionally. Their side today had a fair bit of experience in players such as Pearce (34 senior games), Luke Jarrad (23 senior games), Jeremy Dukes (47 senior games) and a decent batch of Collingwood players (Iacobucci, Brent Hall, Harry O'Brien, Sean Rusling, Billy Morrison). Willy 2s beat Box Hill by a similar margin last week as well.
Anyone care to estimate how many possies young Griffen would've had?
I think today's Age said 29 possessions.
If they can beat the Bullants then I will say they are the real deal. [LOL]
Seriously they started well last year and fell away to some extent, I expected them to at least make the prelim. final.
They have a younger list this year, which may help as they seemed to lack pace against the good sides in 2004.
They appear to have a depth of talent not obvious at some of the other clubs and a good group of youngsters from the Dogs. This should get them to the finals.
Still, I hope the Bullants can show something against them this weekend, as their last performance was a big disappointment.