personally I think Bert would be more inclined to start with a clean slate and pick players based on merit, rather than past roos performances, if you had next to no idea about Australian football and seen a talented player basically rotting in china or all places, and seen players who may not be as good, but are playing 90 or so minutes every week at a decent level (Wright, Dougall etc) who would you pick?
I know a lot of you wont want to hear this, but I am just being realistic.
Couldn’t agree less.
It’s Bert Van Marjwik. Not some forum keyboard warrior.
Merit does not mean what league you’re playing in. Any decent coach will evaluate a player for themselves based on footage. Especially footage with the NT.
Not just look at which league they’re in like most overly opinionated 14 year olds on this forum do.
Players who’ve done well previously for the Roos but struggling at club level will have a much better shot than players not impressing at higher levels. Sainsbury is easily safe.