05-20-2018, 08:57 AM
Quite apart from the issues presented thus far, we have probably got the worst bottom 6 players in the AFL, and as Robert Walls and no doubt others have said, a team is as good as its bottom 6 players. Mullet played 18 games for North last year, Vickery played 17 in his last year at Richmond - both those players are cut, and the team improves ? Of course there is much more to it than that, but I really wonder sometimes whether the focus on maximising high end talent is overstated, and whether we should be trying to shore up our bottom end instead ? Richmond don't have much elite talent, but they have managed to sort out their bottom 6 beautifully.