I have mentioned constantly on here about how players play to their full potential when in better teams.
? is how do we become that team!
Look we may get there with the new crop but a couple of guys need to stand up Martin may be one, but you look at someone like lids for example, he needs someone to inspire him, he wont do the inspiration stuff by himself.
What I am getting at is this, I was listening to SEN last night and Pikey just scoffed at Newman as captain and said he wouldn't even get a game at the top 4 clubs and also went on with such things as Deledio having won 2 B&F's 'that sums Richmond up' - lol
Also made mention of how the hell can we be paying the same as a team like Geelong in the salary cap.
So do we at years end get some big names $$ earners ala Newman, McMahon(no brainer), and put them up for trade for whatever picks they will fetch. Give some of the lesser lights what they deserve, I don't know the figures but there is no way they should be earning what their equivalents get, at say Geelong / StKilda / Coll hawthorn etc If they get the poos so be it - probably not worth it anyway.
Then with the spare cash go real hard at say a Hodge/Ablett/Bartell and/or a Gilbert/Fisher for example you know a couple of KPP that will inspire and lift the team around them, how long has J Brown got left in the game?
Just really think if we got this into the side it would fast track the kids that have the potential and may even make careers out of some that will move on and become the players they should be elsewhere.
We need a bit of that old Tiger ruthlessness not just to gain some big names but to also show who we already have that this is the place to be going forward.