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[kruddler]

Gibbs is a seriously good footballer.  Grossly underated by these boards and Carlton Fans in general.  Most likely from frustrations that he hadn't won 4 brownlows and led us to 6 premierships.  Yeah he wasn't hard like Dusty Martin, but he was composed, clean, a great field kick and a bloody good footballer.

He is a player that can have 43 touches, 8 Marks, 10 tackles and kick 2 goals in a game.

You can't replace that with Kennedy (19 games), Lang (44) who couldn't crack the Cats Midfield, Dow (0) and SPS (21).    It's like trying to replace Steve Smith with Renshaw, Burns, Handscomb and Travis Head.  Yeah I know Gibbs isn't Steve Smith

The decison to trade Gibbs was always going to be a step back, to make up better in the long run.    6 months long run?  No.  3-4 years.

You are right in what you say about Gibbs. You are never going to replace him with those players.

However, we were never trying to too.

What we were trying to do is get more talent on our list that will still be on our list when Gibbs has long been retired.

So long term, its a gain because we have 'something' when we would've otherwise had nothing when Gibbs hung up his boots.

Anyone who thinks otherwise has missed the point of that trade regardless of their thoughts on Gibbs.