08-07-2017, 09:20 AM
(08-07-2017, 08:56 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Which is why, again, i refer to the recruitment of A. Silvagni.
As good as he has been for us, he is surplus to us....or creates a surplus for us when we play him.
We are doing a rebuild, we didn't need a bandaid.
We would've been better off (long term) spending that slot on our key forward (or a mid).
Fair point...losing Rowe though really hurt, while we have a glut of defenders we dont have any apart from the now reborn Jones who can take the big units and it just
happened on the weekend that Essendon had two and we got caught out with JW on Hooker.
ACOS and Rowe are both short term future players and in a year or two we will be looking at another big key defender to help Jones.
Like ruckman I think you can trade in defenders but good quality mids and forwards are harder to secure that way and you need to pay more or draft them...the game really is about mids these days....
you can have a very good midfield like Richmond, one decent key back(Rance) and one decent key forward(JackR) and you are competitive top 8 material.
Midfield depth has to be priority, you cant lose Cripps and then become non competitive......