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Well written.

Industry standard is just 30% of all draftees making it to 50 games, we are on pace of crushing that standard with 70% of the 2018 to 2022 draftees achieving the 50 game milestone.

Talent identification is a thing and its important to recognise a players ceiling and whether its at long term AFL standard. pumping 100 games into Murphy and McHenry is not going to magically turn them into elite Dustin Martin style footballers. This is where Nicks and the selection committee are failing, and I mean if failure was an olympic sport, they are Michael Phelpsing it.

I get they were pushing for finals, blind freddy could see that and the fans expected it. But you can't tell me, Curtin playing would cost us games, or even Dowling and now Taylor that he is back from injury. The failure to drive the list to find its talent potential was always going to hold us back from long term success.

What does cost you games is playing players with a limited ceiling who are out of form all because they are a mature body. Murphy, Sholl, McHenry in the same side would have easily combined to lose us games. Not sure how replacing one of them with a Curtin or Dowling would make it worse when there is a fresh unknown upside.