Your club's best 22

[Baron Greenback]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

[Bum Crack]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

That is a shocking team. Thank God i'm not a lions supporter.

[Baron Greenback]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

That is a shocking team. Thank God i'm not a lions supporter.

They'll be ok.
Give them a year or 2 and they'll play finals.

[Brodlach]

I agree BC, where are the goals going to come from?

[Baron Greenback]

Brown obviously. But I reckon Lisle is a good proposition up forward.
I'd expect Longer to spend time up there too.

[Brodlach]

Brown obviously. But I reckon Lisle is a good proposition up forward.
I'd expect Longer to spend time up there too.

Browny is my favorite all time player but he just cannot stay on the park. Cannot see that team kicking 15 or more goals a game

[Baron Greenback]

Brown obviously. But I reckon Lisle is a good proposition up forward.
I'd expect Longer to spend time up there too.

Browny is my favorite all time player but he just cannot stay on the park. Cannot see that team kicking 15 or more goals a game

That's the key.
If he does stay on the park then he'll kick 60+ goals.
But like you said, he's struggled over the past few years.

Last year's were freak occurrences though, nothing to do with his body breaking down like in previous seasons.

[Baron Greenback]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

That is a shocking team. Thank God i'm not a lions supporter.

Also, that's the team that had your mob on the ropes until Brown went down at the start of the final quarter last year.

[Bum Crack]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

That is a shocking team. Thank God i'm not a lions supporter.

Also, that's the team that had your mob on the ropes until Brown went down at the start of the final quarter last year.

we still won by 5 goals and WON the PREMIERSHIP.

[bd u15 09]

B - Logan, Carlile, Trengove
HB - Thomas, Chaplin, Hartlett
C - McCarthy, Cassisi, Pearce
HF - Brad Ebert, Butcher, Gray
F - Westhoff, Schulz, Brett Ebert
1R - Renouf, Boak, Wingard
I/C - Rodan, K. Cornes (only play him as a tagger, otherwise probably Broadbent IMO), Lobbe, Pittard (SUB). Pittard very quick and can utilise that position quite well.

I think we have a much better and more developed side than what we had last year. I really like our youngsters that are coming through and having played in a side last year that struggled to win a game, they were able to gain the experience required to start making inroads on a long and illustrious AFL career. I expect us to finish about 11-12th this season but will be very surprised if we finish any higher.

[helicopterking]

West Coast

B: Waters Glass M.Brown
CB: Hurn MacKenzie Butler
C: Gaff Priddis Rosa
HF: Lecras Darling Embley
F: Lynch Kennedy Nicoski

R: Cox
Kerr
Shuey

Bench: A.Selwood, Natanui, S.Selwood, Sheppard
Embley gets a start. He is one injury away from retirement. He has to many similar players waiting in the wings(Swift,Masten,Strijk)
Quality young players adding depth A.Smith, Schofield,Hams,McGinnity. I guess they wouldnt have recruited Josh Hill if they werent going to play him. Even though he is very gutless.

[Pag]

My Round 1 side for Richmond:

B: Morris, Moore, Rance
HB: Newman, McGuane, Houli
C: Deledio, Jackson, Conca
HF: Ellis, Vickery, Grigg
F: King, Riewoldt, Nahas
R: Maric, Martin, Cotchin
Int: Connors, Astbury, Tuck, Batchelor

Would love to pick Ben Griffiths but would need to prove himself over a few weeks in the VFL, not only for form but to show his body can cope. Guys like Graham, White and Edwards can't keep getting games consistently if we're to make the eight.

[BoundaryRider84]

GEELONG

F Stokes Hawkins Varcoe
HF Christensen Podsiadly Johnson
C Chapman Corey Selwood
HB J.Hunt Taylor Mackie
B Scarlett Lonergan Enright
R West Bartel Kelly
INTER Vardy Wojcinski T.Hunt Duncan(sub)

Daniel Menzel comes straight into side when he has recovered from his knee reco.

[Baron Greenback]

Feel free to post what you think your club's best 22 for 2012 will be.

BRISBANE LIONS
F: Karnezis, Lisle, Zorko
HF: Banfield, Brown, Polec
C: Rich, Rockliff, Raines
HB: Drummond, Patfull, Hanley
B: Adcock, Merrett, McGrath
R: Leuenberger, Redden, Black
I: Longer, Lester, Docherty, Green

I see 2012 as being break out years for Jared Polec and new draftees Billy Longer and Sam Docherty.
Our centre square combination should continue to build on 2011, with Rockliff and Redden beginning to join the elite midfielders in the competition, taking some of the slack from Simon Black.
Hopefully we can keep Brown and Merrett on the park all year as they are crucial to our finals hopes.
Overall, its not a bad side, but we need big seasons from Daniel Rich, Josh Drummond, Jed Adcock and Todd Banfield to be successful.
I reckon we'll finish between 9th and 12th though.
I'd be happy with 9th and then hopefully have a crack at finals next year.

That is a shocking team. Thank God i'm not a lions supporter.

Also, that's the team that had your mob on the ropes until Brown went down at the start of the final quarter last year.

we still won by 5 goals and WON the PREMIERSHIP.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...you can thank us later.

[Baron Greenback]

West Coast

B: Waters Glass M.Brown
CB: Hurn MacKenzie Butler
C: Gaff Priddis Rosa
HF: Lecras Darling Embley
F: Lynch Kennedy Nicoski

R: Cox
Kerr
Shuey

Bench: A.Selwood, Natanui, S.Selwood, Sheppard
Embley gets a start. He is one injury away from retirement. He has to many similar players waiting in the wings(Swift,Masten,Strijk)
Quality young players adding depth A.Smith, Schofield,Hams,McGinnity. I guess they wouldnt have recruited Josh Hill if they werent going to play him. Even though he is very gutless.

That's a great looking side.
I'd expect WC to challenge again this year.

[Dirko]

My Carlton side;

B: Laidler Jameson Duigan
HB: Yarran Henderson Scotland
C: Simpson Judd Lucas
HF: Gibbs Waite Garlett
F: Walker Kreuzer Betts

R: Warnock Murphy Robinson

INT: Tuohy Joseph Ellard Thornton

Reserves

B: Armfield Bower McCarthy
HB: White Watson Davies
C: Russell McLean Bootsma
HF: O'Keeffe Rowe Mitchell
F: Buckley Casboult Collins

R: Hampson Carrazzo Curnow

INT: McInnes Heyne Kerr Dale

[Baron Greenback]

My Carlton side;

B: Laidler Jameson Duigan
HB: Yarran Henderson Scotland
C: Simpson Judd Lucas
HF: Gibbs Waite Garlett
F: Walker Kreuzer Betts

R: Warnock Murphy Robinson

INT: Tuohy Joseph Ellard Thornton

Reserves

B: Armfield Bower McCarthy
HB: White Watson Davies
C: Russell McLean Bootsma
HF: O'Keeffe Rowe Mitchell
F: Buckley Casboult Collins

R: Hampson Carrazzo Curnow

INT: McInnes Heyne Kerr Dale

No Russell or Carrazzo in the senior side? That's a good sign.
I'd like to see the Blues at finish at least top 4 this year.

[valleys07]

My Power Side:

B: Logan, Carlisle, Chaplin
HB: (Pittard / Jacobs) Trengrove Hartlett
C: McCarthy Thomas Wingard
HF: Gray Butcher Brad Ebert
F: Westhoff Schulz Brett Ebert

FOLL: Renouf, Boak, Cassisi
Int: Rodan, K. Cornes, Salopek, Daniel Stewart

[Baron Greenback]

My Power Side:

B: Logan, Carlisle, Chaplin
HB: (Pittard / Jacobs) Trengrove Hartlett
C: McCarthy Thomas Wingard
HF: Gray Butcher Brad Ebert
F: Westhoff Schulz Brett Ebert

FOLL: Renouf, Boak, Cassisi
Int: Rodan, K. Cornes, Salopek, Daniel Stewart

I reckon I'd start Rodan on the field every day of the week.
That bloke's a gun.
Definitely before Brett Ebert anyway.

[Brodlach]

No Lobbe?