Magic will need more then walker and smart after loosing Oxbarrow, be interesting to see how walker goes, he deserves to be in a winning team after being extremely loyal to Lakes and standing out in a poor club, just not sure whose going to provide the assists to him, Oxbarrow would have been perfect
I think Walker will definitely get help from his wide guys. Late in the season teams were looking to shut down Virgili in order to stifle Magic as there wasn't a great deal of goal scoring threat elsewhere. If he'd have had a Crowley, Smith or Walker centrally last year I think they'd have won the comp again.
They had the best team in the comp and scraped into 4th place. They also scored the most goals in the comp , so it had nothing to do with not scoring enough goals.
When was the last time Magic won the premiership, not the Gf, because they have never been the nnsw representative at seasons end. The 6 years of inception have been
Maitland 2019
Edgeworth 2018
Edgeworth 2017
Edgeworth 2016
Edgeworth 2015
Weston 2014, although Jets won the comp.
So neither Magic , Olympic or Jaffas have won the premiership for at least 6 years,
Even more at the ones that did win it
Every club in the top 6 plus Valo spent over $100k this year Johnno, if you don't think that then you are delusional. And Hamilton probably the same.
Edgeworth and Maitland both got the best bang for their buck.
Edgy would have made 10k for winning gf and from what i hear made 50k against Jets.
Maitland 10k for winning premiership and nearly 40k from Mariners game from what i hear