Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 6: Carlton vs. Hawthorn

[Thryleon]

Including McEvoy the number is 10 - he's 30 in July.

problem is all the old guard (and throw in Breust 29 in November) - are their best players. Shiels their best? Not.

Burgoyne, Roughy, Poppy, Birchall, Frawley, Henderson, Smith, Stratton, McEvoy.

That's the guts of their best (yeah, yeah there's O'Meara, Hardwick, Mitchell, Shiels, Sicily)

29 in November....

That means he'll be 29 in season 2020 and wont play a match aged 30 until 2021.

I told you that they're better than everyone thinks and they had a brownlow medallist out.  Big boy at age 30 (not yet) will have 3 years of footy left in him minimum and they have ceglar waiting to play.

The advantage they have is they have a core of players that have been setting standards since they started winning flags 11 years ago.

That's consistency of method.  Consistency of approach, consistency of standards, consistency of culture, consistency of message, consistency of game plan, consistency of personnel....

They have a decent layer of young talent that did their job against us, and they'll find a few more for next year.  They didn't play a prelim for nothing last year.