Reckon im in the proper rebuild camp. Rather than trade away good picks id look to get some and go to the draft for two or three years..If we got say a first rounder and maybe a second for Dusty and im being honest here i dont think that will happen due to Dusty's age then all good.
Would be happy to get some quality older types thru F/a or cheap trades.
If im going to give up top picks for players then im targeting young players like 19 yo Callaghan or tom Green rather than a 26 27 28 yr old who will be past it by the time we rebuild and get enough games into the kids we take.
People need to get out of fantasy land they talk as if we can stay up and win a flag its yet to happen and if honest we just dont have the quality coming thru to take over from all the retirements that WILL happen the next two or three seasons.Imo its Crazy people think an actual rebuild will take just 3 or so years. There is just two ways to go, embrace a full on rebuild and if we get it right 4 or 5 seasons without finals. or we can do a Geelong and wait 10 years for the cards to fall our way if we are lucky.
Reckon we have ALL got greedy and have forgot just how we got there.
Its really simple Draft well then develop well get a large core to 80 100 games which will take 5 or so seasons then add the missing pieces and hopefully you get another dynasty.
In three years time it is likely all of the following will be gone Martin, Grimes, Riewoldt, Cotchin, Lambert, Prestia, Lynch, Edwards, Pickett, Tarrant, and possibly Broad and of course Caddy.
Then you have fringe and ordinary players who really should be gone like Aarts, Castagna Parker, Soldo, McIntosh and yess im throwing Short in here as well.
Then theres a whole pile of younger blokes who really do have big questions about weather they will even make it. Dow, Ross, RC-D, Ryan, Rioli, Nyuon, Martyn, Miller, Colina and im sure ive missed a few.Some could come on in leaps and bounds but right at the moment its not dumb to question if they will make it long term.
I believe there is really only one path to take and that is to accept and embrace a full on rebuild starting yesterday.