There is a list chasm but its not what they are talking about.
Our list chasm is the players between our juniors and our vets.
In 2017 we had a spread of players going from 2006 - 2016 and 15 odd of them premiership players were spread thru the 23 - 29 age bracket.
In a couple of years time we wont have a good vets all retired and the mid tier need replacing.
Our dilemma is getting what kids we have into that mid tier and continue to build. How long will it take to get 15 players basically starting from this year to some where around 100 games and then get another 8 or so around 50 games.
When we won in 2017 our side averaged 104 games for every player. The average age was 25yr 43 days . Put that in perspective in 5 yrs time baring injury Lalor will be 23 and around 100 games. The 2017 side had 4 juniors Graham 19 , Rioli 20, Castagna and Butler 21. All others fell into the 23 thru 29 age bracket.
We had 11 players with 100 plus games anothe 4 with 50 plus games and only two had less than 20 games.
The beauty is we have openly embraced a full on rebuild time is actually our friend and there are no expectations we just have to make sure we stay the course and make sure over the next 3 or 4 drafts we load up with as much young talent as possible.
Embrace youth while we can because all too soon unrealistic expectations and stupid time frames will start to raise their ugly heads.
Finally on topic Nankervis i give three years maximum we have three years to find our next premiership ruckman and atm its not one of the listed rucks we have.All currently are hail mary's.
I think the way the ruck rules are going cdt is probably a perfect fit for us although we have a similar type in Sims, i think Sims more a kpf though and the hyphen more of a very athletic ruckman first and foremost. If he is there at our picks 3 or 4 i think we will take him.
