Armchair expert wrote:Who do we poach?
Need 2 batters at a minimum.
This is that vicious circle
Team performs badly, local cupboard seems bare. So we go out and get fringe players or older guys from interstate - Wise, Fleming, Dempsey, Lang, Davison, Edmondson, Crosswaite, O'Brien etc. Maybe even an overseas pro Younis Khan, Andy Flower, Johan Botha
Then a few years later we realise that the junk we purchased wasn't any better than the locals we overlooked
So we return to backing our own guys in.
Team performs badly... square one.
Basically we are forever doomed to be propping up the table.