BigMart wrote:Do you honestly reckon Heeney, and an absent Mills got them to a grand final?
I'd say bigger factors were
Kennedy - trade
Parker - pick 40 (somehow?)
Jack - Rookie
Hannebury - at late 20s I think as a f/s
McViegh - Seasoned Vet
Grundy - Rookie
Rampe - Rookie
Nick Smith - late pick
Aliir - pick 44
Laidler - trade
Forwards
Franklin - Free Agent
Tippett - Trade
Xavier Richards - Rookie
Papley - Rookie
Heeney - Academy
McGlynn - Trade
Then there's
Naismith, Number 10?
There's a side put together well, using and abusing all avenues.
drafting
There is one thing you have all missed.
Clubs have for at least a decade been required to have a minimum of 38 players and a maximum of 40 players on their senior list.
While the rest of the competition has gone with 40 Sydney have one with 38.
We will have to cut players who won't make it as usual this year to keep our list at 40.
But there will be at least 2 players lucky enough to get "another chance".
They will be lucky if they get a game next year and will be finally cut.
Sydney have the discipline to cut them from the senior list but have more rookies.
This gives them not only a salary cap advantage but the opportunity to assess more players over time because of the shorter assessments.
Just look at our list for the year completed.
There were more than 2 who could have been cut 12 months earlier weren't there.
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