Star fullback Nathan Cooper has retired after 56 VFL games and a Premiership. It's a body blow for the bees.
Cooper, Coughlan, Riley Bice & Aiden Johnson will be very very hard to replaced for the Bees. Particularly Cooper and Johnson. Not easy to find talls for the stand alone sides.
They’ve lost Annard & Northam to the SANFL as well, so their ruck depth will be tested too.
I know they tried hard to get Sellers, but the link to AFL with Essendon was too much of a draw card.