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Teenage Players like Reid are the exact players you hit the draft hoping to find.


By trading for Reid your overpaying for certainty but it’s a perfectly justifiable stratergy if your content in your ability to find best 22 standard players in the later rounds and from other obscure places.


I mean Essendon just drafted/added Kako Clarke Gerryn Johnson Nguyen Unwin Day-Wicks and grabbed Edwards out of WA.


That’s 8 players and close to 20% of the list having not played an AFL game before the start of this season.


I’d say that’s hitting the draft pretty hard. I would also expect them to add someone else via MSD so along with Prior that’s 10 players and close to 25% turnover in 1 season.


The year previous they turned over about 6 players so that’s an almost 40% list turnover in 2 years.


This year they currently have 2 FRP, 2 SRP and a bunch of money.


That’s another 10% list turnover lined up before counting trades/free agents


Let’s say they turnover another 8-10 players with Goldy being the only one bought in under Rosa. You’d be looking at a 60% list turnover in 3 years and the majority of players still there from Pre Rosa being


Merrett Martin McGrath* Durham Ridley Redman Reid Langford Caldwell all of whom have shown to be pretty good.


That looks like bottoming out to me


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