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For anyone panicking about losing CCJ…. now I know he’s got promise, but he’s 22yo - Mason Cox played 7 games this year and CJ 8…. Here are there season averages:
Goals: Cox 1.1 v CJ 1.4
I50’s: 1.4 v 0.8
GA’s: 0.3 v 0.1
SI’s: 4.9 v 4.3
Disp: 9.4 v 10.5
Marks: 3.7 v 3.8
CM: 1.4 v 1.4
Metres: 122 v 97
Now I think we all accept Cox is a completely useless spud of a player. And i know CJ has upside and he has only played 8 games. But it wasn’t 8 games as a 19yo kid.
Luke J is 19yo and only 1cm shorter than CJ…. he is the prototype fwd/ruck, not a slow and lumbering CJ. Good move not to tie our future to CJ - I haven’t seen enough to be convinced he’s the long-term answer as a bonafide ruck/fwd… not when you watch other young rucks like Jackson, Darcy, Draper and Marshall who would tear CJ a new one.
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Marshall is a spud.
Which Marshall are you talking about?
Jackson is a potential superstar probably chasing contracts towards 7 figures per year eventually.
Not everyone can be a superstar. The point is if you have a lessor type playing a role it should afford you to play better types to play in different positions. Its getting bang for buck and its about timing to because available cap space allows you to chase whoever at value end of this year and or next year
Here is a question, which may be more to the point, ignoring personalities. Does the club overrate certain positions compared to others and only got away with it because of Dusty's brilliance?
I have mentioned this recently. Melbourne have some guns but not a superstar list. What Melbourne do have is a better more well rounded team. So they have a good small forward in Pickett, a good young meduium forward in Fritcsh, a gun upper and coming second ruck in Jackson, gun ruck in Gawn, gun ruck rover on Oliver, gun mid/forward in Petracca, handy support in James and Viney and Brayshaw, handy wing in Langdon, good backs in May, Lever, handy support in Petty, and Tomlinson as well as handy support in other areas like McDonald and KPP like Brown at value as well as the likes of Sparrow, Rivers etc.. being quite handy and developing including depth. Melbourne has some stars, not all stars but a very good balanced team in terms of how they spread their cap over the positions over the field.
Here is another way of looking at it. Richmond have a number of players that would not make Melbournes top 22, more Melbourne players than RFC clearly would make the combined list and not just because of ability but also value in terms of the cap. A number of our players would, like Dusty obviously, but because of the balance of talent across the field positionally, a number of our players, even though more experienced would not get a gig at Melbourne I think simply because Melbourne get more bang for buck from their role players because there value is in a more balanced list based on the dispersal of talent across various roles and talent is more even and arguably at better value.
Here is another example.
Someone seems to think we are offering an aging Talia 400K with injury history. I am like WTF???
If you are offering Talia 400K we may as well get Petty from Melbourne in a trade with others for a first rounder to give to Melbourne for them to use to get Cerra. So we end up with Petty and Rivers/Jordan or whoever like Brayshaw but at least the list has more of a future with the chance of more premierships down the track.
People can whinge about Townsend but bang for buck he was a great premiership player in a great team at the right time
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