My point was more around the comment that you can't have 2 full time wings. Even with Gulden the current team doesn't have 2 full time wings. There's enough room for 1 wing, 1 hybrid wing - you don't need to chuck someone like Merrett in there who has the most CBAs in his team by a fairly significant margin.
How is the AA selection committee going to say with a straight face that Merrett belongs out on a wing I wonder?
If the position he plays and wing were somehow directly interchangeable, we'd have seen him absolutely breaking games open out there.
Isaac Smith was arguably the best wingman in the competition with us for years without even looking like he'd win a center clearance. Ditto for Brad Hill. But they were dominant players in a hell of a lot of games at Hawthorn, because it's a specialist role.
Gulden playing wing 60 percent of the time at the Swines re-enforces/strengthens that idea. The guy is a freak level talent - he's not being hidden out there because he can't win his own ball or fit into the rotations.
If Mass doesn't get selected this is approaching Mooney over Franklin in 2007 level dumb imo.
Seems tough to argue the wing for a guy who doesn't actually show that he's capable of having significant impact on games out there in 2024.
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