Nelson, I loathe the Slime with a passion. However, if we're going to throw stones in their direction, let's make sure they're solid and not made of papier mache.
The reality is those premiership teams had genuine stars all over the field, along with lesser players who peaked at the right time - just like every premiership team.
We have a team which is extremely gifted in certain areas and deficient in others - just like every premiership hopeful team.
A couple of weeks ago (in the 'What are we doing...' thread) I suggested that we would draft midfielders at the Draft and that we were 'all in' with our current talls, so our selections last night were no surprise to me.
I'm not disappointed with our new recruits, a long apprenticeship at Peel awaits the youngsters.
Yarran is by no means certain to make the leap from WAFL to AFL, hopefully he will. I can't see us playing Walters, Ballas and Yarran in the same forward line if we intend playing Fyfe there as well.
Interesting times ahead.