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Scipio Trident

Scipio   5,884

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After today 48.

Which will bring his 50th in round 1 next year. I think we will really start to see the emergence of Viney and Tyson next year. Both at that 50 game mark and starting to show some real development.

The biggest tick for me is Angus Brayshaw already playing 20 games in his first year. Great development for him and the fact we are pumpibg games into him will hold him in good stead for next year. He will be our starting mid next year.

Absolutely agree with this, I think we'll see Viney and Tyson really lift a notch next season and take a lot of that grunt work off the shoulders of Jones and Vince. When we have at least 4 midfielders on the same level, we'll be a lot better. Having said that, Viney has been very good this year, for the most part.

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We certainly need some luck with injury. Lets hope Petracca, Frost and Trengove play really good footy next year. Kent has the breakout year we have been waiting for and we get some overall improvement from the 22. Salem, Brayshaw, Viney, Hogan have loads of room for improvement.

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Bossdog Redleg

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Missed Tyson(49)

Viney (47)

M Jones (50)

My eyes don't work sometimes lol

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Bossdog Redleg

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Jones is not youth.. will be 28 next year

I realise that.........Has only played 50 games and was brought in as an mature player
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the notion that getting games into all these supposedly talented kids will lead to a champion team is nothing new

back in the 2008-2011 days I was one of the many (and strongest) campaigners for this idea

at that point it was all about Grimes and McKenzie and Watts and Jurrah and blahblahblah

lo and behold it could not possibly have worked out any less successfully, in fact it was an abject failure

forgive me if I look at our current crop of 'talented youth' with a liberal dose of skepticism

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the notion that getting games into all these supposedly talented kids will lead to a champion team is nothing new

back in the 2008-2011 days I was one of the many (and strongest) campaigners for this idea

at that point it was all about Grimes and McKenzie and Watts and Jurrah and blahblahblah

lo and behold it could not possibly have worked out any less successfully, in fact it was an abject failure

forgive me if I look at our current crop of 'talented youth' with a liberal dose of skepticism

Ha finally a mea culpa!

We need midfield leadership at our club big time. Talent yes but without leaders its a headless chook...

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It's interesting that most of the players one the presumptive 'cut' list are 25 or older.

Right now we have about 20 players under 23 years old.

That will push even higher in 2016, even with a couple of Free Agents or trade-ins coming in.

What does that really mean? Really just that predicting how things will go in 2016 is a mugs game, but we are at least unlikely to get worse. Bwa ha ha ha ha urk.

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Just going through our list and was astounded to see how few games some of our players have played.

I know some won't make it and I know other side have similar but I have listed players that have not got to 50 games yet.

Brayshaw (20)

Fitz (22)

Frost (24)

Gawn (37)

Harmes® (7)

Hogan (18)

K/Harris (21)

Mitchie (16)

Neal-Bullen (9)

Newton (13)

Riley (25)

Salem (20)

Spencer (35)

Stretch (9)

Toumpus (27)

Vandemberg® (14)

Petracca (0)

McDonald (1)

Others...

Anyway........Just thought it was interesting....

Cat’s core 10 building to premierships <50 games

Going into season 2003 Age (Mar 30) Games Played Flags

Ling 22 44 (246) 3

Chapman 21 29 (280) 3

Corey 21 39 (276) 3

Enright 21 33 (307*) 3

Kelly 19 15 (271*) 3

Johnson 19 12 (251*) 3

Mooney 23 47 (221) 2 (Cats)

Bartel 19 11 (281*) 3

Ablett 18 12 (274) 2

Wojcinski 22 37 (203) 3

Finished 2003 with 7.5 wins and 89.8%

Won first flag in 2007 - added Ottens, Joel Selwood, plus had other good depth with Max Rooke, etc.

Dees core 10 <50 building to premierships going into 2016 ??? Bolded

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