I'll be glad when the rest of the shit are gone but their gonna drag down the team next season, look at the roosters even though they've lost a lot of players through injuries their still competitive, if our team get too many injuries we'll end up near the bottom of the table again.
A major objective of having quality players in our team next year is so they drag the average players up a level or 2. It has happened many times in our past with common examples of Kevin Ryan, Bobby McCarthy, Turvey, Baa etc all lifting the players around them to levels that they would not have achieved otherwise.
The comparison to the Chooks isn't really valid as, despite injuries and retirements, they still fielded a number of quality players, Tedesco, Manu, Keary, JWH, Crichton etc and even Radley, who seemed to be missing a lot, has played 14 games. Let's face it, as much as I respect them, the Mozzies were no longer strike players, plus Cordner and Field were also well past their prime. The reality is Chooks have won 15 games and lost 8 and had some big scores put on them, FFS the Donkeys put 34 on them back in May, more recently the Panthers 38 and the Storm 46 (the Chooks didn't score a single point in that game).
Always a Bulldog
