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Just because someone moves clubs it doesn’t mean we could have gotten them. Cerra chose to go to Carlton. Hogan chose to go to GWS. There are 17 x clubs these players can choose from … suggesting we could have gotten them just because we wanted them is not how things work.

And you’re suggesting we should’ve given up the Gibcus pick for Cerra. Obviously nobody would’ve predicted the Gibcus injuries … are you honestly saying it would’ve been better to have a very good midfielder who turns 25yo end of 2024 than a 21yo CHB for a decade? This is a classic case of being a hindsight hero. If Gibcus had 45 games under his belt for Freo and was dominating CHB (which he’d likely be doing without injuries), you’d be slamming the club for giving up Gibcus for a midfielder.

And then you’re talking about getting JUH just because we offer a big deal to him. He’d have huge deals tabled from most clubs and he’s about to re-sign with the Dogs. He’s not gettable.

And you’ve added Grundy in there .. WTF? We had Nank and Soldo … why would Grundy want to come to us? Why would we go after a ruckman on big coin when we had two quality rucks already?

Sorry, but you live in fantasy land thinking every available player could’ve been in Tiger colors if that’s what we wanted.

Lions fell off a cliff post dynasty. Hawks fell off a cliff post dynasty. Eagles fell off a cliff post flag. Saints fell off a cliff post 2009-2010. Dogs fell off a cliff post 2007-2010 era. Port fell off a cliff post 2004-2008.

About the only club that hasn’t fallen off a cliff to some extent post a very successful period is Geelong. But in 2015 they missed finals … in 2016 the best player in the competition walked in the door for unders as his family lived in Mogg’s creek. In 2020 they lost GF to us. In 2021 they had as good as the best player in the competition walk through the door as he liked fishing [emoji476].

We’ve made many errors post dynasty, but keeping back Father Time when you don’t have access to the top-end of the draft for a decade is nigh on impossible (unless the likes of Danger and Jezza come knocking)…..

How’d we have gone in 2022 if Bont was playing for us? We finish top-4 and probably win the flag…. but he wasn’t.

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