Agree. We're still capable of top 4 even without Smith, lever and Cameron. We were so far ahead 14-15 teams I can't see us falling in the 5th-10th bracket.
I say we give it a crack next year and see if any young players rise up and turn into first 22, doedee Keith gallucci Hampton cey (again). We have a few waiting to step up.
Include the 3 possible 1sts this year and 2 next, we could have a good amount.t of talent coming in for 2019-2020 while alot of our current leaders will be in their prime at 25-28 (crouches, Laird, Smith, Talia, hartigan, McGovern, Kelly, brown) add 5 first rounders on top of these blokes and we should look good for next 5 years.
Everyone talks about this window but the majority of our 22 are young and their window is at least 5 years. The only outs in this "window" period we have to worry about is Betts, Walker and Jacobs. Everyone else is under 27 and still has a few years.
We ditch 2 of those 1sts for a couple of seasons with Gibbs and we are doing to our future what the portatoes down the road are currently doing.