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well, it's obvious you don't rate young defenders. I'm probably not far off suggesting your all in favor of continuing to bring in mature age defenders such as what we have done with Rivers, Delaney and probably Henderson?
I'm the opposite, I think we need to really begin investing in these young defenders. Kolodjashnij should never have taken this long to play game no.1.
Hamling should not have taken four years to finally be given a chance to play game no.1 (on another teams list).
It was eerily similar with Jackson Thurlow who spent far too long in the VFL when the Senior team were clearly lacking youth and speed for so long.
Fingers crossed Jake stays on instead of leaving to the Gold Goast to play alongside his bro. Can't say I blame him if he does leave.
I see both sides of the argument here, so I'm a fence sitter on this one, but as an interesting aside, didn't Michael Tuck play something like 80 games in the VFL before cracking his first senior game?