Where we are as a list there is absolutely no reason to keep Maric as a back up.
The one thing Dimma has got right this year is identifying that Maric's body is past the rigours of AFL footy. Hence playing Hampson.
With where we are as a club, every player needs to be AFL standard or have the potential to be. There is no room for "back ups". And no need as a bottom 8 side.
Go all out kids- find a young ruckman and play him. Let him learn on the job. Grundy from Collingwood is a great example. They have played him from day one and now he is a very good ruckman and still only young.
The other thing is IMO, if you are in the market for a young ruckman, draft one. Not a ruckman come forward- not a forward that can pinch hit in the ruck.
Most of the young ruckman we have recruited for as long as I can remember have been these hybrid types- Vickery, Griff, Chol, McBean, Putt.
We have 5 stars, and some pretty exciting kids coming through, we really just need to rid ourselves of these "middle bracket" players and move on from them.
Grigg, Houli, Hunt, Moore, Townsend, Vickery, Griff and we could turn this around really quickly. These guys mentioned have got us as far as we are going to go with them. Move them on and reload.
Load up on kids and see how many good ones we can find.
