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- Oct 10, 2012
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Yeah, Oliver ain’t making a dent at his absolute best. We’ve done this before. Sounds like the Hill/Hannebery/Jones era. We cannot repeat that. We need a significant influx of younger kids built around the King and below age group. Sick of trying to be half good to relieve the pain. If he came with a top pick then the top pick would make the difference, but there will be much more demand than that, so no club’s best offer is “yeah we I’ll take him, but give us your best pick too”. Pipedream.What if the finals sugar hit was a flag sugar hit - is it okay then?
Was looking at coaches votes yesterday out of interest. We have
- 16 players on the list who have received 10 votes in a game (=1st in comp, with Melbourne)
- 32 players on the list who have received a vote in any game (1st)
- 6 players under 22 who have received a vote (1st). Carlton and Essendon have none.
To me, that says that there is a lot of capability and depth right now & the youth is fine. It also suggests that the salary cap might get tight over the coming years and we are already seeing that with Battle. However the "ass" will not fall out if the young guys stick around.
We essentially have the opposite problem to 09/10 in that we have a very strong so-called "bottom six", but lack the star quality at the pointy end. The three guys we do have who are currently AA quality will all be 30+ in a couple of years - if there was ever a time to attract a proper A grader, however impracticable that may be, it is now.
We ain’t good. Our young crew is very promising. We aren’t at the start of a rebuild, but we are in a rebuild on the run.