Snuffaluphagus
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The problem is in applying logic to a team that uses voodoo magic to never fall down the ladder like everyone else. You can apply all sorts of reasoning but I'm not buying it anymore until you actually fall down for more than a year. Cats supporters being weary of falling is like Essendon or Freo supporters thinking they can a flag. Cute, but not based in reality.There's room for both schools of thought here I reckon.
PO is massively overdoing it acting like it's a certainty, but he's not totally wrong either.
If you could guarantee the Cats have an identical (or better) injury run next year, then I'd do the deal.
The problem is you can't guarantee that, and that's why they're list managers, and it's why we're guys on a footy forum.
The whole 'cliff narrative' the Geelong posters are talking about has nothing to do with the names on paper.
Adding Smith, as well as another pre-season into the kids will hold us in good stead to compete again if we stay fit.
The worry is our lack of depth. As CatToTheFuture points out, the experience leaving at the end of this year is no joke.
If we cop some injuries it'll literally be draftees taking their spots, rather than Rohan, Parfitt, Touhy, Stanley, Bews, Hawkins & even Duncan, who have been the fringe guys this year.
2023 would be the obvious example. On paper, that side had just as much talent - if not more - than the 2022 model, but if you get unlucky with injuries the drop off is huge.
I can totally understand the Dogs supporters asking for the future first, but by that same token, you have to understand why Cats supporters are wary of giving up the future first. It goes both ways.
It's all academic, as it's not like we have any say regardless lmao.
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