It's not just about personnel. The past 2 years we've been 17th and 18th for uncontested possessions. i.e. our game style doesn't promote retaining possession. We play the boundary, kick down the line and continually give the opposition an opportunity to win the ball back.
Compare that to the successful teams who do everything within their power to retain possession. How often do you see our players play on? We continually go back, kick over the mark and rely on contested possession to win the ball. That's 90's football.
Watch the successful teams play. They make every effort to avoid kicking over the mark so they can keep the ball low to move it quicker through the air. Our ball movement after quarter time on Thursday was snail like. You can have Carl Lewis and Usian Bolt in your team but if they don't play in an offensive manner, it means jack shit.

I chuckle when I hear the coaches say the players aren't creating and taking a risk. Yet when the risk doesn't work, Mick is the first to admonish them and kick them up the arse.
You can't have it both ways. The coaches can't ask the players to be creative and take risks and then admonish them when the risk doesnt work.
That creates confusion and when the pressure is applied, the players will always revert to "safe" football. That's where we are. When the pressure is applied, no one wants to be the one to play on, to leave his man and give a running option. No one wants to stick his head up.