I remember Drummond being a 8 spd 9 str 16/17yo small fry many seasons ago. Now an old bloke going strong at 33.

No way Poland and Slovenia should have been that close. But both sides might be closer than we think. They both rely heavily on bot scabs to make up their rosters.

Johnson was only a borderline starter in his prime. Considering his physicals now. It is understandable how you view him.

An interesting thing to note given Johnson was dropped, I had the same amount of former/current players on both the Norway and Australian team playing. Anas Bru (35 year old DL) and Liam Tunheim (31 year old linemen) are both former players, whilst Flynn Johnstone lined up at safety while Nick Chatres snuck into KR.

It's a pity about Garrick. I got him late in his career and his tacticals were non-existent and his blocking/agility were subpar also. Got the blocking/agility up to the softcaps and did the best I could with tacticals, but he never hit his full potential and was already 29ish when he made the team.

On another note, I've always been a massive fan of Jayden Schneider. I'm fairly sure I'm the one that either brought him in or otherwise found him and passed him to project (could be wrong about this though), and I used him extensively during my tenure as a coach. He's also the reason why I train positioning on WRs now after the rest is done, cause I couldn't quite understand why he would usually perform so great (even though he's got some nice things going for him).

To this day though, I'm still shitty about this other young 20/15 5* WR Lucas Taylor that was left on a bot team at 16 skills that I found around the same time. He was so good, he still made the team at the time as a backup, but alas, botdom. Man, I also remember the cyle or two before that was when we brought in Ethan Gibson & Marco Watters. Our WR core was so amazing at the time we had to leave Watters out. Cartledge, Schneider, Gibson, et al. We didn't have anything below 4.5* BPOS, and they were all pretty decent in other areas too. Our TEs were also pretty good, though we lacked depth. Archie and Anderson somewhat defying the paper stats and doing what they did. That was also the time of Mitch Watt and the rise of Bryan Bandy. Wow, what a powerhouse offence! Nostalgia goggles definitely taking over, given we still have a good team (and have noticeably improved in other areas).

They were all part of our strongest showing. Oh the glory days. haha

But the new kids will do a as good job. QB Welsh will take over sometime in the future and I have a well know hybrid TE/WR not in the NT roster sitting out this cycle that will probably eclipse any TE we have previously fielded. He he sitting on the sidelines with 2 non fitness skills at 19. And positioning will be 19 by the end of the season/start of the WC finals.

Defense will be interesting in the coming cycles, final run for most of our long term starters this cycle. No idea about a replacement MLB.

Remember when our LB group sucked so bad? haha Our second best LB was a 4.0* bpos LB with 16 spd and 17 str whom played MLB. Good ole Lucca MacGregor.

Didn't realize all our DLs were 29yo. Some of those 18/17 ones don't really matter. They should have been switched to OLBs by their managers long ago.

Greenwood was gonna be a DL. But when he capped at 17 str, he switched to LB. He is full bpos in both, but I doubt he'll ever see time at DL again.

Greenwood's little bro will be a good MLB. But he is still a generation away. Just as fast and strong as Reid. And no player in the game could be more intelligent than him. IF you catch my drift.

I've also got a CB Wall replacement, but again a generation away.