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I hope this is the message that has been given to the boys. We have this years pick nine to come, but with our ascension, there are no more top 10 picks...

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I don't understand what this thread is?

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The hope that the boys unify as a team and have belief on what is within?

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With recent turnovers, they coould be forgiven for not understanding what a "team" is.

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I still don't understand this thread, is it about pick 9 or about us working as a team?!

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I hope this is the message that has been given to the boys. We have this years pick nine to come, but with our ascension, there are no more top 10 picks...

You've lost me too mate.

Select edit, and go to work.

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The tenet I would have thought very simple. This year is the last time we go to the trough ( hopefully ) with a low ( high) pick as a norm.

In other words we start unifying as a team , start playing as a decent team and climb the ladder. As a result we wont have an under 10 pick from here on in unless we trade for it.

We have to stop relying upon the notion that some uber wonderkid will arrive as some manna from heaven to save the day.

Not that hard to decipher really

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We could trade for players.

What about FA?

I know what you are saying but we are going to turn the list over again in 11 months; telling the list that 'this is it' becomes hollow when you move another 8 on.

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Big assumption here IMO

We are going to finish high enough to not have a pick in the first ten in 2014?

Surely you jest

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Big assumption here IMO

We are going to finish high enough to not have a pick in the first ten in 2014?

Surely you jest

Im not suggesting it is what happens, only this is the idea suggested in the OP :)

I think the theme is we have to stop waiting...and start doing. i agree

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What about our National draft pick at the end of 2014.

I would think it would be in the top 10?

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A good indicator that our list has improved will be when players outside our best 22 ask to be traded for more opportunity. This will signify we have enough depth to have players outside our 22 that are good enough to be in the best 22 on an opposition list.

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I think the Op was looking to wax lyrical as opposed to specifically .

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I think this is a rah-rah thread about getting better quickly with a self-fulfilling ideal of telling the players they are the extent of the good players we will get as we won't get anymore because they are good enough.

Maybe.

Posted (edited)

The tenet I would have thought very simple. This year is the last time we go to the trough ( hopefully ) with a low ( high) pick as a norm.

In other words we start unifying as a team , start playing as a decent team and climb the ladder. As a result we wont have an under 10 pick from here on in unless we trade for it.

We have to stop relying upon the notion that some uber wonderkid will arrive as some manna from heaven to save the day.

Not that hard to decipher really

That is exactly what this thread is about. Our malaise for the last decade or so is down to a naive belief that draft picks alone would do the job, while we neglected to develop from within. That is precisely why PJ was hell bent on getting Roos. A master at developing players, extracting the best a player has to offer and team culture (spirit).

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This is never the list it has to be turned over continuously or you stagnate and end up with large holes to fill

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