What a surprise, players play better in their 4th and 5th seasons than they did in their first couple. (McPhee, Brown, Holland etc) The only one who we traded after 5 years was Clement... and who exactly did that? Did Simmond not play better for Freo than for Melbourne? Was Matt Carr an underrated champ at St Kilda? It's been our problem... trading out players at the 2-4 year mark, bring in players at the 5-7 year mark. So generally the ones leaving are yet to reach their peak... the ones coming in have set the high standards and don't maintain it.

And an on-line sub editor must be taking the **** including Toby Stribling in the list of overrated stars we "snared". I note that name didn't make the paper version (which I read whilst passing a coffee shop which had 6PR on too).