Whether we land a big fish or not, it's really irrelevant. Whichever slightly better than average players come to us, who are still out there, nothing's really going to change...
The current list we have now is still good enough to push for a premiership. Our team now is probably at the perfect balance. Improving young guys mixed with established stars/vets. Our young guys of, Jones, Mills, Hayward, Papley, Florent, Allir, Lloyd and Hewett are players getting better each season and have all played enough football to only continue to improve. Buddy, JPK and Parker will still be solid. McVeigh the general is still all class, and Redge/Smith are still solid backman that can do a job.
At the end of the day, it's all about coaching and staying healthy. We all know that if guys like Naismith, Mills, Melican and Reid were healthy, we would've been much much better. All we needed was just Sam Reid at least! He's got a better set of hands than bud, takes good contested marks and takes so much pressure off Buddy and stops teams from doubling Bud. Our whole attack changes when Reid is in... Oh, and I haven't gotten to Naismith who pushes Sinclair forward more where he is much more effective...
I'd rather see us experiment with what we have already, I'd love to see guys like Aliir and Rampe around the stoppages. Both are big and can use their size to win the ball. We all know Aliir is a freak athlete, and Rample really looks to be bulking up a little bit. Would like to see Jones around the middle as well, with his speed and skill, he can really be a silky player to win centre clearances. Let's also not forget about Mills..
If there's one player we really want... Should be Tom Langdon. It means we can take either Aliir or Rampe out of the back potentially. Tom Langdon is also a gun, carried that entire Collingwood backline the whole year who were constantly hit with injuries. A backline of Redge, Smith, Langdon, Melican, Lloyd and McVeigh would be interesting. And of course guys like Rample and Alliir can be utilities and switch from back-mid through out the game. It's time we roll the dice i think. Aliir forward to help buddy would be so interesting as well...
Other than Shiel or Gaff who are now gone, there's really no player out there who will make us any better? Rather Horse gets his finger out of his ass and makes some changes to our system and experiments with out players.
Rant over