Archie's an idiot. Plain and simple. 

Of course bert doesn't know who he wants - He's had one camp with the boys and been watching them for barely a couple of months. 

You'd have thought Gersbach > Meredith, Maclaren > Ruka but the coach doesn't see it like that

How does that not make sense?! It makes a hell of a lot more sense than naming 32 players, and then dropping 6 of them without having a camp to look them over.