List management never has an end date, we are constantly building, refreshing and developing. We absolutely do have a number of issues in need of addressing, some more urgently than others. The answers and solutions are often not about changing playing personnel, but coaching and development issues along with creatively redeploying players in alternate roles.
We have had a progression of coaches determined to pigeon hole players in roles. Very few are tried, let alone redeployed in alternate roles. Is it simply a coaching issue, or is it due to a tendency to draft and/or recruit one dimensional players? There was a report quoting Andrew Russell as stating our only hybrid player at the time was David Cuningham.
I often shudder when Arr0w and others spruik draft best available and trade for needs. Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think so. Trading for “needs” has left us with a handful of inflated contracts for players not performing optimally who actually hinder development of our youth by tying up positions on the park. We are now in a position that we are compelled to go to the draft to fill positions of need, we have little other option, with the salary cap tight and getting tighter.
We need to add run and quality distribution quality and quantity, as well as add to our key position players. They are non-negotiables, then we could do with adding some different firepower up forward. While it is a decent draft and I believe I can pinpoint some nice, bankable options, we will be up against it trying to fill all of the gaps.
The list of draft combine invitees published today is intriguing, as much by some omissions as to who is actually on it.
if we traded for Grundy.
