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- Sep 9, 2007
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I’m not criticising Lycett, I’m asking why our list managers FAed in a mature ruck right after spending draft picks and development on rucks.
Any on field edge we get from adding an instant Slyce probably only applies for the next two years, during which time we’re what?
Kinda like adding Rockliff a year after drafting contested mids in Atley/Drew/Spp. Why.
Rockliff and Lycett were FA acquisitions designed to use up salary cap space so we didn't have to over pay players to meet the salary cap floor and therefore completely distort our player payment schedule. We also have banked space that we can use from previous years.
Without them, you've got to distribute $600-$800k to players who didn't deserve a pay increase above what star players like Boak and Robbie Gray were getting at the time.
So it was more of a case of 'we need to spend this money on someone, and Polec and Wingard sure as s**t don't deserve it' than any sort of strategic plan from a football sense. Though I guess you could say that Lycett and Rockliff can show the rucks and the mids how hard we want them to work at training. Notice how Ladhams and Frampton have gotten considerably better with the addition of Lycett? That's because they can see that it's not about being athletically talented like Ryder, but about your want and desire. And I'd say Drew would be learning off of Rocky the same way.