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Our stockpile of slow inside mids surely indicates we were taking best available over every other single factor for a few years at least.

Plus our love affair with tall defenders.
Maybe we had a need for slow midfielders ? ......we had an emphasis on players able to win contested footy as a priority ....plus maybe Scott Thompson has gone on longer than we originally planned ?
 

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Maybe we had a need for slow midfielders ? ......we had an emphasis on players able to win contested footy as a priority ....plus maybe Scott Thompson has gone on longer than we originally planned ?
Well, no, because we've found it impossible to fit them all in the team at once hence a large amount of SANFL football for Lyons, Grigg, Kerridge, CEY and even M Crouch.

And now a fire sale where we have traded to get some outside speed in.
 
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Well, no, because we've found it impossible to fit them all in the team at once hence a large amount of SANFL football for Lyons, Grigg, Kerridge, CEY and even M Crouch.

And now a fire sale where we have traded to get some outside speed in.
What fire sale? ......can't remember any fire sale,which means selling well below market rate?

Kerridge wasn't slow ......CEY is not slow for his height ......it's really Matt Crouch, Lyons, and Grigg .....which doesn't say our list is loaded with slows
 

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Well, no, because we've found it impossible to fit them all in the team at once hence a large amount of SANFL football for Lyons, Grigg, Kerridge, CEY and even M Crouch.

And now a fire sale where we have traded to get some outside speed in.
Ha ha, good luck. We've always drafted for need, the mix of speed and inside mids is proof. Had we been a top 4 side, then we'd have switched to talent. Simples really.
 
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What fire sale? ......can't remember any fire sale,which means selling well below market rate?

Kerridge wasn't slow ......CEY is not slow for his height ......it's really Matt Crouch, Lyons, and Grigg .....which doesn't say our list is loaded with slows
Of course it's loaded with slows. Those above plus we already had Thommo, Wright, van Berlo to fit in there somewhere. That's why we off loaded Wright and traded in Hampton and Seedsman during the off season. Too many similar players who were wasting away in the SANFL, not enough pace.
 
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