Spanish Sahara
Brownlow Medallist
The one other thing that stood out from me watching a lot of Carlton games this year was their ball use, particularly by foot.They also lost their 3rd highest goal kicker for the year and a best 22 player in Kennedy.
I watch the Blues every week because of my Mrs and they don’t have the sort of team that can lose too much depth and recover from it.
Throw in losing Jack Martin and now you are depending on the likes of Fantasia, Motlop, Fogarty and Durdin to pitch in with an extra 30 goals or so.
On the other end of the spectrum Docherty missed the whole season just about and Silvagni will be back in but I still think losing depth hurts this squad.
Finally Walsh usually has ongoing back issues season to season and not a lot of youth coming on, so pick 3 needs to be a hit.
A lot of heavy lifting to be done by the usual suspects - we will see how it goes eventuates. Hawks have a much more balanced and deeper squad.
A lot of their midfielders and flankers are very average kicks and struggle to hit up targets inside 50. Certainly no acquisitions to improve this outside of the draft.