whufc wrote:The Crows would have to be filthy on the timing of Patty leaving
They put in all the hard yards with his development, catered for him when he was first drafted by allowing him to stay back and study, they have got a squad that is verging on cracking the top 4 and Dangerfield is about to hit his prime, and then bang gone!!!
Considering they never made a gf or were a genuine premiership threat during his time at the club its hard to know whether his drafting has ultimately been a great success especially considering there were always question marks over how long he would stay in Adelaide
This is really going to set them backs few years imho
Without question, you take a top flight player out of any* side and they will suffer from it. It puts them back considerably in their midfield stocks and with Thompson only having a year left they need to find some support for Sloane pretty quickly.
9th in the comp for disposals, 15th for tackles, 2nd for contested possessions, 4th for clearances. you don't find blokes like that often or easily.
*It didn't hurt Geelong so much when Ablett left, but let's be fair, Geelong of that era is a different beast to Adelaide right now.
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