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Why over many years have we not recruited mature age or rookie players with big ,solid bodies or at least with the potential to be crash through palyers like Jonathan Brown? Many of our new players have been between 182/190cms and skinny.

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    Why over many years have we not recruited mature age or rookie players with big ,solid bodies or at least with the potential to be crash through palyers like Jonathan Brown? Many of our new players have been between 182/190cms and skinny.

    We are trying to recruit outside midfielders because CAC recruited a bit to many inside midfielders, so we have recruited the following outside mids Blease,Morton,Buckley,Davey has become one,Green and Bruce are still ones, and any of you consider Grimes a outside midfielder?

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    Why over many years have we not recruited mature age or rookie players with big ,solid bodies or at least with the potential to be crash through palyers like Jonathan Brown? Many of our new players have been between 182/190cms and skinny.

    Not many rookies have those big, solid crashing bodies. Maybe if Jack Watts has some time in the Gym he will be like that. And keep in mind that most AFL players are 182-190cm rather than 191-199. It's just about developing our young players.

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    Why over many years have we not recruited mature age or rookie players with big ,solid bodies or at least with the potential to be crash through palyers like Jonathan Brown? Many of our new players have been between 182/190cms and skinny.

    Its not just melbourne, the whole of the AFL teams have it in there head that youth is the only option, I think there is so much mature wasted talent out there.

    Some points on why teams don't pick mature age players up.

    - Not enough space on the list to take the risk on them

    - Recruiters and coaches may look silly if they don't come off, compared to a youngster.

    - How do you judge VFL, SANFL or even a lower league compared to AFL.

    One day a team will take an NBA approach to recruiting and it may come off, but until we get more space on our lists recruiters will not take the risk with more then one or two mature age picks.

    rookies with big bodies would be nice, but they need to be able to play to. Otherwise we should have kept Lamb or big nicho.

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    Oh no stevendemon you mentioned big al it has taken me years to get him out of my head and you have bought it back in just one word.

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    Oh no stevendemon you mentioned big al it has taken me years to get him out of my head and you have bought it back in just one word.

    LOL! He was great to watch, you just never knew what was going to happen, he caused me alot of bleeding fingers and nails caught in my teeth.

    BRING BACK NICHO!

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