add jake spencer , 22 years, 8 games
as stated earlier , long term injuries of young players hinders the development of the player and the team . The older players getting to the end of the careers, davey, green, moloney, jamar wont be replaced with players with 80 plus games under there belts.
just some rough stats
2007 draft ave games played 25.4 includes, morton , grimes, martin ,spencer
2008 25.6 includes watts, blease, strauss, bail, jurrah, bennell, jetta
2009 19.8 includes, scully, trengove, gysberts, gawn, tapscott
very few young talls are ready to play straight away so the likes of spencer, gawn, have never got the development, experience etc to take over from jamar
our mids and defenders blease, strauss, gysbets, tapscott have not got the experience , development to takeover from, maloney, jones, sylvia,