Looking on the bright side not recruiting anyone will hopefully at least bring some stability to the playing group and the best 22. Hopefully we get a pre-season of everyone knowing their rules and better understanding of the gameplan so we're not at sixes and sevens like so often this season.
Also, could it be the case that we've manipulated our salary cap space to be full now but to free up room for 2018?
Sounds all nice and full of hope, but reality is the team this year was full of deficiencies, at either end of the ground, lacked pace with poor disposal.
These areas can only be improved with bringing in talent via FA and trade eg. Lever, Lynch, Darling maybe a Stringer. The ability to improve unfortunately doesnt sit on the list currently.
So while other sides are able to bring in players to improve their lists, and we stay "the same", its going to be one long crap year in 2018.
If we arent able to bring in any players due to miss management of the TPP, my next question as a member will be why is Eddie, Bucks and Hine still at the Club.
Ralph would have absolute no idea about our TPP. We have no "superstars" eg. Martin on mega contracts. The media is just fixated on Mayne and Wells. How much room in the TPP would Richmond have after the Martin deal, im tipping not much, yet they are linked with Schache and Stringer.
Ralph also talks about Collingwood not having any players that the Crows would want, well besides Petracca, Hogan, Oliver and Viney, what do Melbourne have??
Barrett sat on the footy show panel last night with the Collingwood president, Barrett made the comments last week that we had no salary room space because of the Mayne deal, which l find absolute BS. Why didnt Barrett ask Eddie last night if Collingwood were in trouble with its TPP and that was stopping us persuing Lever any further. He wont because he will sit there like a squirmy worm and hide from his comments when a representative of the club he made the comments about is in the same room.