Winning isn't everything

[thefutureisblue]

Great post Tragic.

I decided to actually track how SOS used very limited currency on that 2015 list into what we have today.

Still on the list:

• Marc Murphy
  Kade Simpson
  Matthew Kreuzer
  Patrick Cripps
  Liam Jones
  Sam Docherty
  Ed Curnow
  Dale Thomas
  Levi Casboult
  

All these players are still contributing to the current team when fit.

Retired/Delisted/Gone for nothing:

• Andrew Walker
  Chris Judd
  Matthew Watson
  Robert Warnock
  Blaine Boekhorst
  Dillon Viojo-Rainbow
  Sam Rowe
  Kristian Jaksch
  Cameron Giles
  Nick Holman
  Jason Tutt
  Mark Whiley
  Clem Smith
  Jayden Foster
  Dennis Armfield
  Dylan Buckley
  Matthew Dick
  Nicholas Graham
  Andrejs Everitt
  Michael Jamison
  Simon White
  Andrew Carrazzo
  David Ellard
  

Lost some good players to retirement, and cleared a LOT of rubbish.
Probably the only one here that is still contributing at another team is Nick Holman.

Trades:

• Troy Menzel, Lachlan Henderson > Phillips, Plowman, McKay
  Tom Bell > C.Curnow
  Chris Yarran > Cunningham
  Zach Tuohy > Polson, Marchbank, Pickett, Macreadie, Williamson, Kerr
  Bryce Gibbs > O'Brien, Schumacher, De Koning, McGovern
  

This is where it gets interesting.
I think SOS has done EXTREMELY well in converting just a few players with currency into some quality and depth coming back. The players we got where either from trading the picks we received, or using those picks in the draft.

I can't see anyone making a reasonable argument that SOS could have done any better in going from that 2015 list to now.