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After every game this week we've heard Neeld and Craig go on about games played average amongst the group and how young our team are. All the while I was thinking yeah, yeah we're not that young, a lot of these players have been around long enough now. But after going through our player list before I received a rude shock. We only have 16 players out of 45 that have played 50 games or more, 7 between 50-100, 7 between 100-150, 2 between 150-200 and none that are in the 200 plus category. Our list of experienced players reads. PLAYER AGE GAMES PLAYED David Rodan 29 178 Aaron Davey 29 161 Colin Sylvia 27 142 Nathan Jones 25 139 Mark Jamar 29 128 Joel MacDonald 28 123 Shannon Byrnes 29 112 James Frawley 24 105 Lynden Dunn 25 100 Mitch Clark 25 97 Colin Garland 24 84 Chris Dawes 24 71 Jack Trengove 21 62 Jordie McKenzie 22 58 Jack Watts 22 58 Jack Grimes 23 57 I'm yet to compare that to a Sydney, Geelong, Hawthorn or Collingwood as yet but I'd imagine that the results would be pretty damming. Makes you realise just how far back we a re coming from. especially given there's a good chance neither Rodan or Davey will be here next year. Lets hang tough and give these kids a chance to grow!