But that's not what his point was.I think Richmond are recognising we need a fair bit of list work to contend again, I'm not sure how Geelong rate themselves internally.
Also, a rebuild isn't linear necessarily, us losing games now when we aren't in contention is not a bad thing, and winning more games doesn't mean a club is in contention necessarily either.
It's easy to look right now and say this club is winning more games now and therefore this club is better, but that doesn't necessarily correlate to what the fortunes will be in 3, 5, 7 years time.
Regardless of what other clubs are doing, we've got a lot of list work to do but I'm liking some of the signs at this early stage of Yze's time.
Got to remember he's inherited a team with a very different strategy, Hardwick wanted a shot at a flag last year and Yze needs to correct that false estimation of our group. Compare that to Chris Scott who's owned the team for 15 years.
The point was simply that Geelong are playing as many young/inexperienced players as Richmond. And that we have a couple of experienced players in the VFL that are backup only.
Every year Geelong tries to make finals. It doesn't always work, like in 2023. But there's not some philosophy that players in the first half of their career should be ignored or are unimportant. There are key components in our team from each of the 3 age brackets (18-23, 24-29 and 30+).