GC and Brisbane have loss plenty of players because of this reason. It was clear as day that Balic and his soft family never wanted to come here. It's more a fact, kids are getting softer, the dream of playing AFL vanishes very quickly when they've made it on a list, because that dream suddenly becomes playing back home, they don't appreciate what the clubs do for them and look to leave them quickly to head back home.Woo there Mikey, with 2 to 300 players drafted the last four years the go home factor is relatively small and the so called flight risk -we are talking same thing right?
On your other post I suggest it is highly unlikely that players and the team with all involved would push through a season without eye on the finals even if the odds seemed to be against them. While the stuffing can get knocked out early a few wins reignites confidence and self belief and hope kicks in.
There is a chance we could get a great quinella out of the ones that may arise. LDU and Cerra is one of them
Cold hard reality is this, when your club and coach continue to say "we're rebuilding" the facts are they don't expect to play finals and they know it'd be a miracle if it happened, they fully intend to play kids. Sure we can dream of it, but the simple reality is we're rebuilding and every single player knows we're not contending yet. Not many people will agree with that, but if you think about it carefully, think about everything the club and Ross has been saying the past two years, I'm right.