- Jun 30, 2011
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One of the teams below is us in round 8 against the Hawks and the other is another also in round 8, but 2020. Guess who? (Both home sides obviously).
Teams with a lot of players in that 50 to 99 game bracket are generally close to starting on big things (IMO). If you glance through the sides atm that demographic profile fits us, Gold Coast and Adelaide. (Of the three I think we bad deepest in high end talent). By the end of next season we should be in a position where a good 3/4 of our full strength side will be 75 AFL games plus. I.E. no reason we shouldn't be challenging as soon as next year.
Equally when we have been saying recently 'we're the least experienced this round' it's not really true from a certain point of view since we aren't playing anywhere near as many players with sub 30 games as say West Coast or even North*. Last week against the Hawks for instance we had 4 and they had 9!
*Man their fans are going to have a long couple of years more.
Teams with a lot of players in that 50 to 99 game bracket are generally close to starting on big things (IMO). If you glance through the sides atm that demographic profile fits us, Gold Coast and Adelaide. (Of the three I think we bad deepest in high end talent). By the end of next season we should be in a position where a good 3/4 of our full strength side will be 75 AFL games plus. I.E. no reason we shouldn't be challenging as soon as next year.
Equally when we have been saying recently 'we're the least experienced this round' it's not really true from a certain point of view since we aren't playing anywhere near as many players with sub 30 games as say West Coast or even North*. Last week against the Hawks for instance we had 4 and they had 9!
*Man their fans are going to have a long couple of years more.
