- Aug 17, 2014
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I know why people keep suggesting we do this but it has never worked for us. Hell of all the players we traded out in the early 2010s, Goddard, McEvoy, Dal, Stanley, I can’t think of one that was even a net neutral or us let alone a net positive. If we finish low on the ladder so be it we get a top 10 pick and a good second round pick just from that happening. Just use the **** things properly, no excuses. No need to trade the good players it took us years to find in the first place.
You need older, established players both for consistency and culture. No premiership team has ever been 22 guys in their absolute prime at age 26, but that's what everyone expects. I believe Steele, Sincs, Marshall etc can all still be playing good footy by the time we are ready for a proper push.
Our biggest problem was trying to improve on the fringes with moneyball picks like Savage, Stevens & Membrey because we can't attract FA talent without overpaying until we have a sustained success period (theoretically). Our heavy investment in the draft the last couple of years will hopefully give us the core we never quite got with Billings, Mcartin, Acres, Gresh etc who were all at times good but none of them ever became great.
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