Heardy_101
LET'S GO BRANDON
The rot started in 2016 when they chopped Petrie, Dal Santo, Harvey and Firrito who all played 22 or 23 games out of 23 that season. Wells (19 games) left as a free agent also.
They were a good solid 12-14 win side that had reached their ceiling, and have since gone 6, 10, 12, 3 (out of 17) wins in 4 years.
The recruiting after 2016 has been all over the shop. Blooding the young guys like McKay, Larkey, Zurhaar etc. makes sense. Anderson (22), Williams (23), Ahern (21) etc. who were on the timeline as younger recruits made sense even if they didn't all work out. Grabbing Stephenson from Collingwood's fire sale last year was great. Dom Tyson for Preuss. Why? 26 year old Polec and 27 year old Pittard. Why? Josh Walker, Aaron Hall, Tom Campbell... these guys are journeymen. Menadue and Corr are OK, but are they much of an upgrade on the guys that were cut last year?
Culling Pittard was probably the right thing to do, to be fair.