Reckon a more pertinant and reasonable question would be, will dusty get back to somewhere near his best or has father time caught him up a bit.
As for selling farm i think they all forget we bought in a pick 2 at age 24 and a pick 7 at age 25. So instead of bringing in kids who would have had to do a three or four year development period for the long haul if we got the picks right we bought in two ready to go players for the medium haul and know we have two proven very good players.
My only question about this with the age of the premiership players was it the right thing to do.
What we did was Very similar to what we did with Prestia who was originally a pick 9 and we got him at age 24 for pick 7 and a future second and have had 6 good seasons from him and counting.
The difference with Prestia and will add the Nankervis and Caddy gets in 2016, was the age of our list and better players in 2016 compared to now with Taranto and Hopper coming with most of our better players aging..
While i tend to focus on the negative even i can manage to acknowledge the positives that come out of these things
We effectively have lost picks 12, 19 31 and future first imo at worst a pick around 12 at best a pick around 18.
For what effectively is picks 2, 7 but mature medium term players and 53 Smith and 63 Green.
My hope was we would facilitate a few trades and get back into the draft which we all know did not happen.
