06-02-2019, 08:47 AM
(06-02-2019, 08:39 AM)spf link Wrote:Honestly, can we get a Steele Sidebottom to cross over to us? What about Luke Shuey? Where is our Andrew Gaff or Dayne Beams going to come from? It is that calibre of players that turn up week in and week out and would have been the difference today. Cripps would have run riot - or they would have. We would have to pay the moon to get these guys, so realistically we need the next calibre down or find the older guys coming to the end you can still get some worth from AND who would want to come over to us.
No-one will come to us. The word is out - we're a rabble top to bottom. Why do you think no FA's come across. The AFL has totally botched this and, admittedly, we haven't helped ourselves either. I mean, who in their right mind would come across to a perennial basket case of a club if they are yearning for success in the last 2-3 seasons of their career?
If it was an equitable system FA's should only be allowed to transfer to a team that qualifies through some sort of ladder calculation, e.g. average 12th position or lower for 2 or 3 consecutive years. That Dangerfield was allowed to go to Geelong, or Lynch to Richmond is a total joke.
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