southmelb said:

Preston and Avondale are driving wages to levels we cant compete with.

That said how we didnt swoop on the dandenong thunder firesale is mind boggling. Even the players Sydney Olympic are getting, Armenakos, Zoricich etc would have been huge.

I dont think anyone wants to come. We keep talking about building for the Aus championship but it wouldnt surprise me if we actually end up shedding some of the names we picked up last year.

It didnt have to be this way.

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Tbh the only players from the Thunder fire sale that interested me are Jalloh and Courtney-Perkins

I dont consider shedding a bad thing, infact given performances of some, i wouldve argued that it was infact a necessity in our situation post ofc, we needed a damn plan for how to correctly have done this though, and the right players shed, it always needed to be based on upgrading stocks.

Im not convinced that signings for the sake of signings will save our year atm either, we have real problem areas that need addressing on the field and 2 more ins at this stage may not fix that.

It pains me that others had the foresight to pick the thunder carcass early and we didnt even seem to have a look in..not saying that it was the answer to our proboems but wasting time on players that want to play OS seems not to be the answer either.

Our biggest sore point is the CB ... that we cant find anyone capable of filling that need is dumbfounding!