I think we should probably just draft the full quota of kids this year......
We only have 7 players under 21, included in that are 2 rookies.
We have quite a few mid aged "project" players servicing the depth of the side. Jacobs, Nahas, Anthony, Harper, Hine, Tarrant, Delaney, Currie, Wallace, McMahon, McKenzie, Curran are all at the cross roads for various reasons, which is roughly 25% of the list, which is a ******* huge amount imo, and not easily replaceable in one draft without picking up a heap of garbage.
This is what happens when you run the risk of just retaining guys for depth purposes, sure it's easy to just delist them, but if you have to replace them in one or two drafts, you might be replacing them with guys that are 100th down the pecking order on your draft rankings.
Obviously the likes of McKenzie, Delaney, Jacobs, Tarrant will be retained for the short term, but they are most definately on notice, of which, these guys could seriously be the "phase 2" of this list turnover.
When you couple the fact we might have to replace retiring players in these years, you can probably see why I'm concerned.
We need to start turning over a fair amount this year, purely so we are replacing some players with 3rd and 4th rounders across 3 years, as opposed to Picks 70+
Our list is in solid shape, but not without alot of weeds imo, we struck a bit of gold in the last few years in Wood, Dumont, Turner with later pics, otherwise we'd be looking pretty bad imo.