Considering Mundy and Sandi (and Ballas) will be gone at that point, Sonny 31, Hill 32 and Fyfe 30 on the downhill slide along with Neale possibly gone, there's a lot of our best players all out or diminishing in output.
There's not a lot yet to play who look capable of replacing them with similar skill levels or ability which means the side won't be rocketing up the ladder any time soon. We need a proper influx of talented kids similar to 2008-10 to set us up for a few years. Unfortunately, we've trade a lot of good picks away for more middle aged players and despite grabbing a large number of kids, we haven't grabbed the top quality kids that set up a side for a long stint at the top.
Last year we managed two high picks which are a good start but we need more for a couple of years to really pad out the squad with talent. Those second round picks we keep trading away will hurt us, more so if we go chasing Lobb again.
Cerra and Brayshaw are the building blocks of our next premiership run so we need to find more talented kids to support and help them, it's as simple as that for mine. Anything else is temporary improvement at the cost of our future.
