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So, whether we can afford all three depends on several factors:
1. Whether any of them demands their market value -- i.e. around $1 million.
2. How much cap space we have open up by retirements/front ended contracts (i.e. Wells, Varcoe, Reid, Goldsack, Greenwood etc).
3. Who else we could trade, i.e., are there mid-range, upper-range players we can trade out? This is the interesting discussion, I'd say. The thing about this path is that we'd need to shed a couple of players, I'd think, and they'd need to be best 22. That might include: Philips, Thomas, Elliot (which would be sad), Langdon, Roughead, Howe, Maynard, Hoskin-Elliot, Aish, etc.
To keep all three, I suspect all the above factors need to come into play.
1. Whether any of them demands their market value -- i.e. around $1 million.
2. How much cap space we have open up by retirements/front ended contracts (i.e. Wells, Varcoe, Reid, Goldsack, Greenwood etc).
3. Who else we could trade, i.e., are there mid-range, upper-range players we can trade out? This is the interesting discussion, I'd say. The thing about this path is that we'd need to shed a couple of players, I'd think, and they'd need to be best 22. That might include: Philips, Thomas, Elliot (which would be sad), Langdon, Roughead, Howe, Maynard, Hoskin-Elliot, Aish, etc.
To keep all three, I suspect all the above factors need to come into play.