I am glad we are clearing roster spots. Shortly Richo can go shake the front rower, edge forward and centre trees and collect the fruit that drops.
He talks about how Inglis became available once.
Players not signed for next year are generally garbage. The players that will be released are similar to the hit list being talked about of questionable standards.
The other option is aging players whose inflated contract is not reflected in their performance. Generally to get these players you usually have to extend their contracts like we did with Klemmer. You then have a crap player on a load of money in 2 years that you can’t get rid of.
Moving on young blokes that haven’t quite fulfilled their potential is a good option, particularly if you can swap them for an aging injury plagued player. Look how the Blore/Olam trade is working.
The solution is not paying out blokes the last year of their contract to sign players that are just a bad on longer contracts.
Unless a couple of our youngsters turn the corner and develop into consistent first graders quickly, we are in for a couple more very poor years.
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