Country sport: senior teams leaning heavily on middle-aged and adolescent players

By Mark Bode
Updated August 10 2018 - 5:06pm, first published 5:00pm
DEEP END: Corey Peck and Wayne Saunders - the rookie and the veteran. Photo: Mark Bode
DEEP END: Corey Peck and Wayne Saunders - the rookie and the veteran. Photo: Mark Bode

On sporting fields around the region, clubs are increasingly plugging lineup holes, caused by alarming player losses, with replacements whose best days are either long gone or hopefully ahead of them. A kind of Dad’s Army-Young Guns fusion.

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