Looking at the Collingwood list of 2014, I am struggling to come up with 6 elite players, let alone 10!
The Top 5 would be:
Pendlebury, Beams, Cloke, Elliott, Sidebottom.
After that it becomes very hard...
Swan has been a fantastic player, but surely his best is behind him?
Lumumba really only had 1 good year. He is mediocre at best now.
Blokes like Macaffer, Toovey, Fasolo, Dwyer, Goldsack, Blair are honest, but nothing special. More C to C+ stock.
The big man situation is not all that healthy. Apart from Cloke, what do they have? Witts, Grundy, Keeffe, Reid (Too injury prone & has only had 1 really good year) are not the type of KPPs to build your team around. They tried to strengthen this area by picking up plodders like Lynch & White. It just didn't work for them.
Sure the Pies have a few talented youngsters in Langdon, Seedsman, Adams, Broomhead, Sinclair, Kennedy, Thomas, Frost, Scharenberg, Freeman. But yet again, most clubs have talented youngsters that are coming through.
IMO, the lack of depth & class in the Collingwood list, was the biggest reason that they missed the finals in 2014.
And it ain't gonna be any better round one 2015.
A number of long term injuries.
Nothing.