Tom Rockliff

Seems like they are looking to retain the older age bracket of players we already have and want to build underneath that a good foundation of young players to come up together.

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The dogs? What?
Most of their trades and moves over the past 4-5 years post Eade have been about getting rid of older guys, for either draft picks and young players

Cooney Griffen Higgins, Addison, Talia, liam Jones out;
Boyd, Hamling, 23yo Shane Biggs and draft picks in.

Only exception is Cramers who was 25 odd when they got him and Suckling.

So we don’t want Rockliff, who’d clearly improve our ■■■■■ midfield immediately, and is at a good age, same age as Hurley, but getting Crameri who’s cooked, sure we’ll save that one for later. Farrrkkkkk

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FuriousGeorge4h
We’re not interested in Crameri. Jackets was just being polite in answering the question about whether we wanted him.

“It’s an interesting one,” Dodoro said. “Given he’s a former player at the club, we’d like to see where he’s at. But it’s not a priority for us at this point in time.”

That’s pretty much a “Yeah, nah” whilst making sure we don’t hurt Stewie’s feelings.

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■■■■ it’s funny watching people jump at shadows like Crameri. I thought it was only the communication specialists who could listen to what jackets said and then actually think we are interested in Crammers.

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Or Ablett, take your pick.

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is there a more Essington line than that

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To me this reeks of: “Yeah look… Another rebuild is happening…”

For the fourth farking time.

Ooh, I hope that’s not the clean linen!

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Edited for accuracy.

It is, or at least it’s already basically done.

Something kind of got in way of our last push for a flag. All about our core group of class 18-23yr olds coming through together.

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poor decision making by the club hierarchy?

AFL / ASADA / ACC / Labor Government.

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If we manage the list, and particularly development well over the next 18 months, we’ll have a gun forward line, all under about 25, an established backline, and an established, deep, if not star studded midfield all under about 26-27 but primarily under about 23. Plus Hurley, Zaha and Hooker as the (only) 3 old experienced leaders.

We don’t need to rebuild. We do need to be smart about age demographics. Set up for a 4-5 year window where we throw the sink at it.

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Yep. Not nearly hysterical enough though.

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As has always been the case for the last 10 years

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Both good sweepers.

We are not interested in Crameri at all.

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Spot on.

Steak knives for Stringer