SurreyBlue wrote:
No. This playing list improved over the past 5 years every year. Last year we had injuries that derailed the improvement and changes were made accordingly. Fine, no problem but now to turn around and say the list is "mediocre" when in actual fact the "window should be open" due to drafting/improving/developing does not sit well with me. I don't take failure well and refuse to believe that so many "top" picks within "1" list can fail at once.
I question what is being spun by people to make their agenda look right. That is what I question!
..it's not saying much though is it.. ..yes we improved over 5 years.. ..from a wooden spoon basically, only way was up..
..'08 was a good jump off of the bottom, but we still had smashings.. ..'09 we cracked into the finals, finishing 7th, but choking poorly in the last.. ..mentally fragile, poor work ethic over 4 Q's.. ..'10 we finished 8th, scraped into the finals [barely] and aside from real Judd magic in the 3rd, played a tough brand of footy but wasn't up to swans standard.. ..would of been smashed if not for Judd leading the way..
..in '11 we finished 5th, but you need to look at it closely.. ..didn't beat a single team out of the top 4, and were 2.5 games behind 4th team WCE [previous year's wooden spoon].. ..still couldn't win the 'meaningful' games thru the season..
..last year we crumbled early on, and went backwards at a rapid rate.. ..and there was still a lack of leadership, lack of structure, lack of understanding between positions and systems, no synergy between senior and ressie players etc etc after five yrs..
..it stinks, but we've been fool's gold the last few years.. ..some of us saw earlier, others later.. ..it doesn't matter much anymore, just so long as we take a cold hard look at the group..