RM, I am unsure whether you are referring to the team that took the park on the weekend or our overall list.
If you are referring to the team on the weekend, then with Sandi, Ballantyne and Mundy all on the park would go a long way to explaining this.
The reason for playing Sandi and Ballantyne is an entire thread on its own. This could be down to multiple reasons. I think a desperate measure to try and provide some sort of focal point in attack but insure against the lack of speed that this causes. I think it could also indicate that the players at the level below either aren’t ready or good enough.
I also wasn’t just speaking of age, I was speaking experience as well. Schulz, Logue, Darcy, Cerra, Brayshaw and Duman are players from the top of my head that I would consider inexperienced that took the field on the weekend.
Langdon, Tucker and to a lesser degree Blakely I would categorise as that next bracket of players that you need more of your team to be. All three of these guys are now beginning to perform week in week out. I was ready to write Tucker off earlier this year but he has shown that players need time to adapt to perform at AFL level.
