Quote Originally Posted by bloodspirit View Post
I retract my comment about the '05 team, not '12. I was too hasty based on the notion we were a working class 'Cortina' team and didn't have the likes of Judd, Cousins and Kerr.

Anyway, my broader point remains, you don't have to have certified 'superstars' to win a premiership. And, besides, lots of players get reevaluated after they've won a premiership. I have faith in our list and in players like Rowbottom and Florent stepping up to help take us forward. They can be the cogs in a champion team even if never win Brownlows.
I guess I wouldn't think either the 05 or 12 teams were "Cortinas" or "Maserati's". But you don't win that many games over the course of a
season unless you're at least a fully kitted out "Lexus". I've said this before but I think the gap between the so-called superstars and the
next rung of very very good players has narrowed a lot over the past ten or fifteen years, so the superstar factor is less important these days.