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- Sep 15, 2005
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Yeah on that rebuilding point we really do need our great white hope player of the youthful variety. I understand why we haven't found one, we haven't had the picks. But we need that 'franchise' player where you build the club around him (Apologise to those who don't like the American terms)
When it comes to AFL my (loose) belief is you need a core of at least 5 gun players to build around, with a couple of those being talls.
That's my uninformed list-build philosophy, anyway.
I look to St Kilda, who as always are currently in no man's land, and I see a bit of hope for them as they have two really strong key talls in Max King and Rowan Marshall, and their skipper Steele who looks (to me) capable of sustaining another 3-5 years of sustained excellence as a midfielder and emerging leader.
That is an absolute baseline; hopefully you'd have more to work with - St Kilda might have a couple more emerge, we sure as hell do not have anything like that on the horizon (and you have fairly pointed out that we just haven't had the picks to take to the draft).