given it's a honeymoon, ernie, its a fair bet the wife is a fairly new wife and ron is a fairly new husband.....just saying, though if you wanted to be truly 'modern' you could have come up with a genderless alternative.
are there any 2nd year players that don't need to improve? this is surely stating the obvious
can't think of many first year 18yo players who played 18 games (especially at 5'8" and in a difficult position like fwd pocket)
i re-read macca's comments and i'm struggling to see where he cast other people's interests or opinions as irrelevant. he just gave his own personal opinion. i'm not just jumping in to support macca as we often (politely) disagree on a number of things
let's just move on.....enough said already