If, as ridiculous as it sounds and as hard as it is to believe, we were to be in possession of a fully fit and available list, who are our current best twenty two Fremantle Dockers and who are our future twenty two best that will next take us deep into the finals? It’s The Restump’s twist on the mid-season review.

Injuries can be both helpful and a hindrance. Sure, you lose quality and members of your perceived best twenty-two but you can also inadvertently discover assets sooner than you may otherwise have done.

While it is arguably the silver lining, injuries, to some degree, can be of benefit and assist a club’s long-term plans and decision making, enabling more in depth knowledgeable list management.

So with a season riddled with substantial and sustained injury to talent across the board providing opportunity for those who need it, we’re largely armed with some level of exposed form to make educated, a term we use very loosely, assessments of each player on our list. 

Will Fyfey be around to lead the charge as part of the best 22? Can David Mundy do a Dustin Fletcher or a Michael Tuck? Will Michael Walters be in the middle, up forward or in the coaching ranks for our next tilt at a premiership? Are the A-Bros, James and Blake in our current best 22 and, if so, will they hold those positions in the future? Is there upside in the Darcy Tucker box? Nathan Wilson or Wontson and what about Tobe Watson? Do we Lobb Rory another contract and is Taylin Duman to take us forward? We need to close the window on the cliché’d play on word ridiculousness but you get the point.    

We’re throwing our opinionated hats in the current and future talent rating ring to try and paint a picture of our list going forward. We agree on many, disagree on some and down right argue the stupidity of our opinions on others. 

So if there isn’t a sound on the planet you haven’t heard numerous times and you’re after something to block out the silence, then, providing clicking a pen repetitively doesn’t provide the peaceful cancelling noise you're after, feel free to hit play and listen to this 60 minutes of purple preposterousness. 

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