Lewis Young

So there's a couple of 32-year-olds, 30-year-olds that go out.

You lose Lewis Young.

You lose other players as well.

But really you're still around in that age profile where you should be competing for finals and playing potentially winning finals and pushing deep and while you're doing that so you're topping up at that end and you're also topping up at the bottom end where you bring in Kurt Walker you'll bring in a couple of other draftees as well so the list is getting better than what it has been over the past couple of years it's a lot more balanced I thought they did well and I I'm interested just to see where the club sets as a par expectations are for next year, because really we should be, I'm going to, I'll say we should be making finals next year and winning finals next year as well.

Harry was the only option, really.

I know we had Lewis Young in there as another option, but yeah, it's exciting.

Yeah, well said.

Yep, well, credit to you for jumping on from work.

I see, uh, this from, uh, 653.

"Do you think Lewis Young could help with the North defensive shortcomings?" Obviously North are after-

I don't, I don't see him as the mainstay

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And, you know, we made 11 delistings and then two trade requests.

So, and, you know, none of them bar Lewis Young played in the last game against Geelong.

So I told you a bit about the depth of the list and where it's at.

So- Yeah, I'm a lot more optimistic than what I was a few months ago.

But, um, to, to me, this, this is good targeted acquisition at a good cost that's going to fill a, a key role next year.

And if he plays 22 games, kicks 41 goals, plays secondary ruck all season, which allows Harry to play deeper forward, fixes that structure, means we're not playing a Lewis Young type in a final, I think that ticks a lot of boxes, and I think we should be pretty happy about it.

There's a s- there is a sentence in the official club announcement on carltonfc.com.au, and it's a quote from Chris Davies, and it stood out to me.

And the paragraph reads, "Over the last 12 months, we've made it a real-- Over the last 12 months, we've made it a real focus to bring in players of great character who can add-"

You don't need him to be a marking target inside 50.

He can continue to develop as a, as a high half forward or a wing where he has looked really promising.

I think, I think it has a lot of flow-on effects, just having another big, strong marking target inside 50 that, that we just simply didn't have to the point where we were literally playing Lewis Young in a final.

So to me, the, the goals number is hopefully 40 plus, but I don't think it needs to be, like, h- much higher than that to be a pass mark.

I think we've got enough there.

But the one that we should be thinking about is the one we just delisted in Lewis Young.

which shocked me at the time, and it makes even more sense now, to go ask the question.

We fucked up.

Gunston.

Yeah, so Gunston, Lewis, Phil Thorpe, Morris.

Yep.

Curnow.

Yeah, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

But, yeah, well, now, obviously, we'll touch on the next, another Ruckman with Hudson O'Keefe with the dog showing interest.

So, we might be down a few Ruckman, to be honest, and it might be the return of the old cockroach, Lewis Young.

Awful.