You have to think about how important it is to protect our emerging culture within the team.
Drafting and playing Stengle would be a bad message to give to the players. It would spit in the face or every bloke who is working his guts out to make a career. And worse, their mates in the team would be frustrated for them. It could drive a wedge between players and coaches/club.
I just donāt get this noise about no good players available for the MSD. There are literally a hundred utter duds running around the AFL each week that arenāt up to standard and would probably struggle to get a kick in the state leagues and conversely hundreds running around in state leagues that could step in and play AFL immediately