As most of you would be aware, we like to celebrate the positives associated with the game, here at The Mongrel.
But we don’t ignore the negatives. As pertains to the events of playing the game, we cast our critical eye over the competition and assess the combatants not on whether we think they’re nice guys, but on how they played the game.
And some of those players simply didn’t have great seasons.
That brings us to this column.
For every Harris Andrews, there is a defender that leaks goals.
For every Noah Anderson, there is a bloke seemingly running up and down on the one spot.
And for every Jeremy Cameron, there is a Harrison Petty. Oops, I meant “forwards who don’t do enough.”
Time to take out the blowtorch and look at some of the less-than-stellar performers of the 2025 season.
Here are HB’s Bottom 25 of the season.
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