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scottydeewah said:
Maybe we could trade Jack-Packenham for someone?
If you look at West Coast, they are living proof that you can't win a flag with a midfield and no forward line. Having said that there forwards are better than ours. They are now shopping around there forwards in an attempt to improve there list. M Gardiner and MacDougall are better footballers than Playfair and C Gardiner, but West Coast are happy to make a judgement call on both of them and try to improve there list. Don't tell me a team with Cousins, Judd, Kerr and Fletcher dont have salary cap problems.
Sydney have lost a ruckman so what are they doing about it, they are going to get another one. Dont tell me a team who has just won the flag does not have salary cap problems.
Kangaroos are lacking a key defender, so they are going to get one.
St Kilda needed a forward to replace an aging G Train, so they went and got one.
Yet the cats sit back and say we have to do the best with what we have got and just accept it. You have 5 days in the year when you can TRY to improve your list. Bomber has locked our club into a corner by saying after the Ottens trade that the club will never ever trade its 1st pick again. There are 3 or 4 key position types that are expected to go in the top 10 of the draft. TRY packaging our pick 15 with a fringe player or 2 (e.g. Shannon Byrnes) in an attempt to jump into the top 10 and get one of these young prospects.
For the people who say Playfair, Kingsley and C Gardiner are no good and no other team would trade for them, then why have we signed all of them up to long term contracts. Do you think its coincidence that the cats form slumped at about the same time all the players signed up on improved long term contracts.
Whenever I doubt my beliefs, I just watch the Sydney final and cringe every time Gardiner, Kingsley and Playfair go near the ball. The flag was ours for the taking, but we were 2 players short. Ottens will be one of those if injuries don't take hold and Nathan could be the other one, but you have to doubt a guy who had to be convinced over time to play.
