Rubbish. We lost Rein, the improvement there alone is more than enough to negate the loss of Creagh.
Macdonald far better than Farrel and Mata'utia, Vaughan superior to Cooper, guys like Host and Milne a year older and guys like Dufty, Herbert and Sele to hopefully see some first grade...so far, we are looking better for next year.
All personal opinions of course..
We are actually no better for hooker, simply swapped a hooker that had deficiencies in his game for another that has deficiencies, all be it different ones.
We are still lacking a half
I don't believe Vaughan has demonstrated the consistency in first grade that cooper produced over 2 years...
I don't believe MacDonald will make much difference either way...
And yes we have a some good juniors coming through as we did last year, however with the same coach it's irrelevant as they wont get a fair crack anyway