You know I love your work here HAP but you’ve got the blinkers on.
They’ve got a great young list. Their spine, in particular, is really young - as opposed to us, where our key backs are getting close to retirement and our CHF hasn’t got on the park for two years.
They’ve got low draft picks (as they have some tied to GC - I think?) and apparently they have loads of cap space too to go after another good midfielder.
Yes they had a good run with injury, obviously. But you’re acting as if they’re a middle to lower team who just fluked the season. That’s just not right.
I’m not saying they’re a bad side, not at all.
I just think, until they prove otherwise, they’re “only” a middling to good team, who had everything go right.
We’re a similarly middling to good team who had (almost) everything go wrong (also see: Port, Dogs).
Seriously, take Hipwood and Robinson out for 80% of the year, take Zorko out for 75% of the year, Martin out for 6-8, then sprinkle a decent handful of niggling soreness injuries amongst everyone else, can you see them getting even 10 wins?
I assume it has been done as the player has somewhere else to go and they are delisting him to allow him to be picked up as a DFA. 11 games in 5 years doesn’t look great though.