TheBluesMuse wrote:
Pafloyul wrote:
Someone can be a good coach and still be full of it.
That's our Mick to a tee...he is most definitely full of it. But people, especially those who look up to him, seem to lap it up.
Nothing like an inspirational, animated and expressive bit of shit talk from a respected man to get the fire in the belly going. Ratten had as much charisma as my indoor plant....and I don't even own one!
Yeah, but you know what I'm getting at. We (as in the coach, people around the club) can say what they like, they can have all the plans in the world but if the reality doesn't stack up then it won't happen. I say we forget the immediate past and look at where we are at now. Let's also look where other clubs fit into the scheme of things. Yes, if everything went right and some things went wrong elsewhere, anything could happen but how likely is that?
You will notice (people in general, not BluesMuse) that we at least
didn't (for whatever reason) make the required changes during the draft and trade period last season so that has put us on the back-foot for a start. Who knows what plans and changes opposition clubs have put in place, I mean , who has really studied and evaluated it? It's not us versus us, it's us versus some other bastards. Yes, Malthouse has made mistakes and I would have liked a few more wins but reality is reality. What I see is a side with struggling key forwards, aging stars and a bunch of glorified rookie players. I don't see an under-performed top-four side; at best that belongs in the past that is no longer relevant.
I thought that early on, but I now believe we are not as far off a top 4 side (on capability at least) I expect 2nd half of the season to reflect that. And that's despite having around 25% of the list as almost having been confirmed as needing to be recycled.
And some of those rookies are proving to be genuine worthy performers, Cachia especially.
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