4flagsin5yrs
Premiership Player
We’ll be a very mature team with ages this season (age within 2021), 16 players possibly rnd 1 lining up 25th+ year
35yo Betts
34yo Murphy
32yo Curnow
31yo Casboult
30yo Jones
28yo Docherty,Newnes, Newman
27yo Plowman, Saad, Williams, McGovern
26yo Cripps, Martin, Gibbons
25yo Pittonet (Marchbank & late b’day)
Being a tad harsh, and I am fan of most of these guys, but you could omit quite a few from our 'best' 22 and it would matter little....
That makes the age profile a lot more youthful.
I know Ed C was 3rd again (or 4th in 2019?) but really? If someone can't supplant him in short order, we are really going nowhere in hurry.
Clearly, we need a young KPD (Jones replacement), a fill in (mature?) ruckman/swingman (kind of a Levi replacement) and we're all good.
It does show that our window is (beginning) now - we just need some of the younger blokes to become consistent, regular contributors. As they say, it's your bottom handful (of the 22) that determine the outcome...