Ghost Like wrote: ↑Sun 25 Aug 2019 2:46pm
So what's your plan sRr? To continue with the same list, the same set up & expect a different result? That thinking is what I refer to when I use the term doomed.
Well one cannot be exact as one does not know who is really gettable or not.
However generalising :
- We need to keep churning through players till we find good ones (ie Marshall). We hold onto too many players too long hoping that they will make it. This may mean missing someone who later blooms, but they probably will not bloom with us anyway.
- However I do not believe that this only needs to be by gaining kids just kids. I think recruiting now should be a mix of kids, late bloomers and selected trades from other clubs and players from 18-26.
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1/The two players who emerge for us this year were Marshall (North Ballarat) and Wilkie ( North Adelaide). Both taken as rookie after having been originally passed over in the draft and player elsewhere before we picked them up..
2/ Prior to that two of our best recruits were the DFA's of Membrey and Robbo.
On age:
1/ Good players often play later these days.
2/ As players can move easier players are less like to be players for life. So gaining kids thinking you have them locked in for a decade is no longer valid.
So I would chase players from 18 to 26 or so. Ryder at 31.5 is too old.
- I think young players improve when they have good players around them, and we lack really good players at present. So I would target some really good players in areas we lack. Midfield is the main area, but I would not gain any old players. Hill I think is good as he is gettable and has characteristics that our other mids do not
- I would trade out what we can get reasonable value for. I would also trade out Steven and accept that he will be unders.
- Carlisle if there is a good deal. Main reason is we have few players that can gain us something good. But id the deal is poor keep.
- Bruce I would prefer to keep as I think Max will have a much easier time finding his feet if playing in the same forward line as Bruce. (Though one rumour is that one club has made us an "overs " offer - Mind you what the club may think is overs for Bruce I might not)
- If Hill and Bytel are both into our midfield in 2020 (along with rotations from Gresham, Clark and Billings) and Hannas is fit then say two of Acres, Dunstan and Acres is tradeable. Probably which ever two gain the best return. Steele is a keeper.
- Quality. We actually have many depth players now. To really improve I think we now need some more quality players to displace some of them. Just gaining more average players is just shuffling the deck-chairs.
- Ruck. Forget Ryder. We just need a component back up ruck in case Marshall goes down and Ryder will not join us to play mainly at Sandy.
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