Came for the thread title. Lol.Now if we took the route and used Hawthorn and Sydney philosophy where they use average non high salary paying ruckmen and used the extra coin on getting some decent quality midfielders and investing in our future forward structure we would not in this situation.
Sydney's #1 ruck is Tippett (when not injured) - what world do you live in where he's not considered high salary. Maybe he was at Adelaide (the portion of it they chose to list on the books anyway)