Rebuild is more about steps than just trying to keep all your good players. First step is building a spine closely followed by key onballers. Basically your core group. Then come your half backs/forwards and so forth with ruckman generally being the last step/priority.
This is due to the importance and influence players in this position have on a game and the availability of quality individuals who play these roles/positions.
So for example good key position players and onballers generally influence the game more than players in other roles followed by your half backs/forwards etc. Good onballers and tall players are generally on par in terms of influence but the availability of quality talls is a lot lower.
So basically players who are good key position players are hardest to bring in through trades and generally take a high draft pick, same as your really good onballers. Pretty much why you have to take advantage of having early picks and the opportunity to take these types of footballers when it arises.
Quality half backs/forwards, second string mids and rucks can generally be found in the second and third round and rookie draft as history shows or can be much easily acquired via trades.
Basically the way I see it, Kreuzer stays and the chances we've taken step one aren't overly likely but if he goes then we've gone a long way in taking the first big step in our rebuild which would be a phenomenal effort. The follow on effects would be pretty big as well as while it probably doesn't lift us off the bottom in the short term, it allows us to focus more on midfielders and other positions in following seasons.
One of the problems with our last rebuild is we only half followed these rules. This is pretty much how Silvagni built GWS. Can Imagine he'll do the same with us.
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