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Delisting 7 players, and from a list finishing second last with four wins...??? We are kidding ourselves, and if we think the remaining players on the list will take us to the eight.!!! Only hard and tough decisions on our list, turning over our bottom end of the list with a strong hand and finding new young talent will bear the necessary fruit for a final eight team.

Greatest restriction on lower clubs is the dollars they can offer, matching only top clubs, where finals Fòotball and successful team are rewards. ( as per goodoil above). The AFL cap of $10 mill per club is restrictive to lower clubs as 90-95% must be paid each season. Surely our list is not commercially the same value as The premiers. If a rolling 5 year cap was introduced, where Clubs had to spend their 50 million over 5 years, then this could possibly allow greater response from lower clubs. Our current list is probably worth 6 million compared to the Hawks, until this anomaly is rectifies by both the AFL and Lower clubs, this turmoil will continue.

some backroom strategy from somewhere going on here * the five year review for our agreement at AAMI is due shortly ( we can opt out each review if necessary), occupancy was aimed short term, ( even though long term agreement) as very crowded and space at premium. *AFL want cricket off MCG for March *Saints desperate to get away from Seaford *Cricket Victoria want elite training facility Important that we understand we will require some fair dollars to get MCG facilities to high standard as per our elite opponents.

Does our "Defend and Chip" fit into that

I am sure we could line up just as many first round picks as that over the past few years