Melbourne remains one of the youngest and least experienced of the AFL clubs -

Total list breakdown: Age, experience, 100-gamers, teens and more

The club's drafting and trading over the past couple of months has been in a direction away from youth (only two 18 year olds have been introduced this year), otherwise we surely would have remained even close to the young and inexperienced end of these lists. And this while one of our oldest players, Heritier Lumumba, probably remains there in name only. 

One interesting number is the Swans & Doggies number of players from other clubs.  Bottom and second bottom of the ladder!  Building from within.

Terrible news-I blame Dave Misson.

total list breakdown. time to get michael carr-gregg involved 

GWS - second oldest list. Wouldn't have predicted that one.

No wonder they're in their premiership window now.

 

20 minutes ago, Ron Burgundy said:

GWS - second oldest list. Wouldn't have predicted that one.

No wonder they're in their premiership window now.

 

Averages are a funny thing.....

Who is the fourth over 30 on the list?  Certainly Vince, Lumumba and Lewis all qualify.  It seems to me the next oldest is Pedersen who doesnt turn 30 until next year.

2 minutes ago, Bimbo said:

Who is the fourth over 30 on the list?  Certainly Vince, Lumumba and Lewis all qualify.  It seems to me the next oldest is Pedersen who doesnt turn 30 until next year.

Yeah it's Pedersen, the averages are as of round 1 next year.

What I've noticed is that while we come in 3rd youngest, our average age is much much closer to the rest of the comp, compared with previous year. The difference between the top team and the 17th team (Brissy are a massive outlier this year) is at most 1 year, normally the top few and bottom few are a lot further apart. Does it mean anything? Probably not, but I think it could mean that we're nearly over the 'expansion years' and the comp could be much more even than before.