Agree with this. Competition and cover for a place can only benefit the team. For me the one player who should be busting a gut to keep his place is Hurrell. Even at a reduced salary he is at this moment not value for money. Now if this is because we are not creating enough space / chances for him that is another matter.I think Martin has done enough to warrant a contact extension. In Thompson can the club justify using a quota spot?

Which makes the decision to leave him on the field, and leave King on the bench, when he was out on his feet with his hands on his knees against Wire, even more unbelievable!!
Really poor player management that was.

Agree fully with the last bit. But we need to be every bit as demanding of the youngsters we bring through. They simply must be top drawer

He’s quoted four of the best OS players in the clubs history there! Absolutely not a chance to attract that kind of quality anymore. We need to lower expectations.....

Disagree mate; Donald and Kylie were plucked for relative obscurity over there and were great for us. Zane is a bigger name than Kylie was.

We never were really in the market for current SOO players. Brett Delaney, Chris McKenna, Brad Godden were all cracking players just under that level too.

Don’t get me wrong we are not high in world pecking order - but we can attract good players and it is this calibre I’d like to see again.

Historically we’ve done worse with the big splash signings anyway.

Maybe so we are better going for quality than quantity. Bring the youth through and sign good players home grown or quota in the positions we need.