Effes wrote:
Those cauliflower go out and recruit quality/for need
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Where was our plan to add pace and skill and a second tall defender?
exactly.
when Hawks got two key defenders in the trade period and we didn’t get any in the trade i thought “what is wrong with this club?”. the post-Jones/Weiters hole is so glaringly, floweringly, obviously in need of a fix. i know KPD don’t grow on trees but Hawks can find them. (i think Haynes came later after trade period right, and he’s a gamble that i hope pays off but a gamble nonetheless).
the other glaring hole on our list is a gun small forward who can do all the things: defensive, agressive, mercurial and kick inspirational goals whilst providing our game plan with more the one dimension up forward. we missed the boat targeting Papley (even if he is a PITA he’d turn our forward line around overnight, Fog could just to tackling, Fantasia and Cotrell dropping back to defence and creative forward transition).
we eschewed other high end small forwards chasing a long shot in Papley. we dumped jack, fair enough i guess given his injury runs and age. then we earmarked Owies, easily our best mid/small forward in the last four or more seasons for a trade to west coast for their pick 3, please don’t tell me that wasn’t pre-planned and the reason Owies never got to renew his contract unless you know that for a fact bc if it looks like a duck and walked like a duck it’s a duck. Life line to Fantasia and Evens hasn’t delivered much, though Fantasia seemed to be hitting some form, inviting of course our injury curse a visitation to his locker.
if we don’t finish top four this year, which looks like a pipe dream right now but things can change a lot across a season, then we maybe aren’t that destination club we once were attracting Cerra, Williams, Saad, Jack, Hewett, am i missing a player with one or more elite skills who traded to CFC in the last five years?
the thing to me is we seem to have lost that flair we were showing when we emeredge out of the bottom four a few years ago. the obsession with Process that middle level managers often have and i suspect Voss and his coaches have, often comes at the cost of Product.
was reminded in a short on YT today of when Steve Jobs said, ‘at IBM they had the best process managers in the industry while at Apple (in the SJ eras) we’ve always preferred to have some of the best product people in the industry’. he went on to claim that exceptional product people are often much more of a PITA to manage, you put up with it because end of the day they can deliver a better product, whatever the management processes look like. (at this point i’ll say that at the other extreme Fev was all product and no process, but extremely poorly managed resulting in his overblown egotism and bad boy behaviours costing us a potential flag, i blame Pagan for that, did same poor job managing Wayne Carey’s ego ).
i wonder how much of that is about neurotypical vs neurodivergent minds? i wonder if there’s a bit too much PWC/Accenture/Boston consulting Process oriented management going on at CFC these days given Luke Sawyers and that dude from Geelong? would know. just a hunch.
anyhow there’s players who used to have dare and flair in our ones who seem to be role players now just trying not to FU or get caught out rather than blitzing every other game when a favorable match up allows them to show their talent. that’s down to coaching and trying to fix the poor structures, the half broken defensive system which must drive Weiters mad at times.
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