I saw this, the gist of the consensus was that in today's footy if you don't improve much year on year you fall behind bc everyone is improving. Fair call.
Apart from King who has us pushing for top 4, the rest had us slipping to the lower rungs of the 8 or just outside the 8. Reason given is we don't seem to have improved our list that much. The discussion then focused on our mid tier and how they needed to take the next step. Dermie went a different angle saying our top 6 who are all A graders need to get better and that will drag the rest to new heights.
Imo we need a bit of both. I think apart from Rance all of cotch, Martin, Lids, Riewoldt, Edwards and Miles need to get better, but we also need the following to go to a new level if we are to become a red hot side.
Vickery
Conca
Ellis
Astbury
Lennon
Batchelor
Vlastuin
Grimes
Yarran
Griffiths
McIntosh
Menadue
Ellis
Fair to say, several of those have serious question marks as afl players let alone as solid afl soldiers. On the flip side 4-5 of them are settled best 22 but ALL need to improve. To be top 4 we'd need 10-11 of them to improve and become solid afl players.
