Depth charts

Previously
Midfield	Forwards	Backs	Rucks
Cotchin	Riewoldt	Rance	Hampson
Deledio	Vickery	Morris	Maric
Jackson	Griffiths	Chaplin	Stephenson
Thomas	Gordon	Astbury
Martin	King	Petterd
Ellis	Lloyd	Houli
Conca	A Edwards	Grimes
Vlastuin	Elton	Newman
Knights*	McBean	Batchelor
S Edwards	Banfield	Dea
Grigg		Darrou
Foley
McDonough
Lennon
Arnot
Helbig
Miles
O'Hanlon
McIntosh
Williams

Currently
Midfield	Forwards	Backs	Rucks
Cotchin	Riewoldt	Rance	Hampson
Deledio	Griffiths	Morris	Maric
Jackson	Lloyd	Astbury	Stephenson
Martin	Gordon	Petterd
Conca	Vickery	Chaplin
Vlastuin	King	Houli
Thomas	McBean	Newman
Ellis	A Edwards	Grimes
S Edwards	Elton	Batchelor
Grigg	Banfield	Dea
Arnot		Darrou
Foley
Lennon
McDonough
Knights
Miles
Helbig
O'Hanlon
McIntosh
Williams

Midfield

Matt Thomas has settled back into the field through no fault of his own but more because of Jackson's return. Funnily enough, Deledio's absence has emphasised his importance to the team. Goalkicker Dusty seems a much better bet than half back sweet Dusty. Vlastuin is making a move along with Conca. Based on the second half against Brisbane Grigg and Shane Edwards are top five players, but I'd like to see backed up for a few weeks. Ellis stays more or less the same. The depth players seem to be sorted themselves out with Arnot and, hopefully, Lennon to emerge from that pack before the end of the year. Knights loses his injury protecting ranking and falls back, which makes me very sad.

Forwards

Who'd of thunk it? Ben Griffiths leaps and bounds over Ty Vickery. Lloyd and Gordon shuffle up because of game time. Depth types more or less stay the same because us Sydneysiders never get to see Coburg games.

Backs

Like Deledio, Rance's importance has been rubber stamped by his absence. If Morris can repeat his Rioli performance of last year, he will belong in the 'best small defender' conversations. Astbury's stock is rising along with Petterd's. Chaplin, Newman for the moment look like the game has got quicker than then over the summer.

Rucks

Same again. Maric has a fight on his hands to retain that number one ranking.