Post Game Prognostications!: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs Drug Cheat

[DJC]

Theyre just selling bombers fans hope that the future is bright.

For the most part, they have found a few players, and their best 22 isnt exactly full of old players either.

Hooker is 32 (kicked 5.1) and take him out of the equation, who else in their team was "old"?

Zaharakis who didnt even get on the field?

The rest of them are around 28 or younger.  Stewart, Smith, Stringer, Tipungwuti, Heppell arent that old.  They have a fairly bright looking future really.

Their list looks a bit more balanced than ours does.  We have lots of inexperienced kids, lots of also ran older players, and a few sprinklings of experienced performers in between.

I actually think its the next layer of players that we are waiting on.  Guys like Philp, Honey, Ramsay, Kemp, TDK.  Our older brigade fell apart at the wrong time.

While I think that too much emphasis is placed on the age of players, Essenscum's best 22 includes Heppell (29), Hooker (33), Hurley (31), Smith (28), Stewart (27), Stringer (27), Tipungwuti (28) and Zaharakis (31).  Phillips, at 30, isn't far off their best 22 either.  It's a rubbish list put together by one of the greatest conmen to have managed an AFL list and weakened by the desire of their players to find new homes elsewhere.