08-06-2018, 02:17 AM
Over the journey of the rebuild we were unbalanced. We cut to deep to quick & the balance of young players & veterans was out of whack, hence why we have a dearth of players in the 24-26 range Add in Gibbs leaving , Doc injury as well as other injuries and they mostly seemed to be the senior players . The "insurance " players eg Mullet O'Shea , Graham etc , where expected to prop up from time to time , but instead they have become the mainstay. I doubt we often had a period especially this last 2 yrs where we have had 80% of the players available on our list at one time. So to build a team featuring so many fillers its difficult to maintain & build confidence , team plans . Add in some mysterious team selection eg Harry , but there are theories as to why he hasnt been out there, there isnt much left to work with. Season is a right off, let the kids learn from their opponents see first hand whats need to play at this level, draw a line under it and the draft time.