Made 4 changes the following week and beat Sydney

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All these years people kept saying we had to stop the 100 point floggings.

Turns out we have to win games as well?

WTF?

In 2015 we lost 9 games by between 60 and 138 points.

This year we've lost two by more than 43 points.

Seven out of our last eight games have been against teams that will or can still make the eight.

We're currently missing our best player and our best stopper.

We've also debuted more kids than in any year in living memory.

How soon did people expect us to go from weekly slaughters to top 8?

For the first time in fifteen years I can see real and dramatic improvement at most levels of the club and a clear strategy that's clearly being implemented and apparently that's not good enough and we should try something different?

All these years people kept saying we had to stop the 100 point floggings.

Turns out we have to win games as well?

WTF?

In 2015 we lost 9 games by between 60 and 138 points.

This year we've lost two by more than 43 points.

Seven out of our last eight games have been against teams that will or can still make the eight.

We're currently missing our best player and our best stopper.

We've also debuted more kids than in any year in living memory.

How soon did people expect us to go from weekly slaughters to top 8?

For the first time in fifteen years I can see real and dramatic improvement at most levels of the club and a clear strategy that's clearly being implemented and apparently that's not good enough and we should try something different?

FMD.

The AFL will make us strong again... even it takes them humiliating us again by gifting us priority picks

Those players aren't forming the core part of the best 22 playing unit.

I don't agree with SB, however we did give Phillips an additional 2 year contract....

And there's more players, that are list cloggers/bad contracts that SOS brought to the club

Would have preferred to fully embrace the draft with more kids...

We're going to finish 17th or 18th anyway

Swans in the last 2 years have had more players debut than Carlton. They are 3rd favorite for the flag.
Essendon** hit by sanctions and loss of draft picks plus players out of the game for 12 months are likely to win 50 % of their games after only winning 3 last year..
Richmond won one more game than us last year now looking at top 4
Stkilda and Melbourne who have gone down the rebuild rout are 1 or 2 games better than last year.
Other than GWS who built from ground up and its the players they brought in that gell this side.
Rebuilding is not all what its cracked up to be

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Swans in the last 2 years have had more players debut than Carlton. They are 3rd favorite for the flag.
Essendon** hit by sanctions and loss of draft picks plus players out of the game for 12 months are likely to win 50 % of their games after only winning 3 last year..
Richmond won one more game than us last year now looking at top 4
Stkilda and Melbourne who have gone down the rebuild rout are 1 or 2 games better than last year.
Other than GWS who built from ground up and its the players they brought in that gell this side.
Rebuilding is not all what its cracked up to be

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Oh...and despite all of that, this year Carlton defeated Essendon** by 15 points, Sydney by 19 points and GWS by 1 point.

Wasting a pick on a kid ruckman would be crazy.
Trading for a second string ruckman would be crazy.
You need insurance if Kruze gets injured and Phillips is that backup. So I understand why he needs to be on our list despite not being a great player.

How many of those clubs lost nine games by more than ten goals two years ago?

We're coming from miles back compared to all of those clubs and I actually think we've made ground on pretty much all of them. It might not show up in the wins and losses column at this stage but we're building an entirely new list, we have a new coaching team, new recruitment team and we're essentially starting from scratch.

Oh...and despite all of that, this year Carlton defeated Essendon** by 15 points, Sydney by 19 points and GWS by 1 point.

Swans in the last 2 years have had more players debut than Carlton. They are 3rd favorite for the flag.
Essendon** hit by sanctions and loss of draft picks plus players out of the game for 12 months are likely to win 50 % of their games after only winning 3 last year..
Richmond won one more game than us last year now looking at top 4
Stkilda and Melbourne who have gone down the rebuild rout are 1 or 2 games better than last year.
Other than GWS who built from ground up and its the players they brought in that gell this side.
Rebuilding is not all what its cracked up to be

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Recent History is riddled with fans go ape over their coach and their game plan only to see a year of two later that same game plan win them a flag.

Port - two years of finishing on top and were bundled out in straight sets - terrific list played very unaccountable football- The public claimed that their style would never win them a flag - It did

Swans - blasted from pillar to post for playing ugly unattractive football and they weren't winning at the time- Roos stuck to his guns - wins him a flag and runner up the following year

West Coast - gun midfield but were never going to win anything without the power forward - Worsfold wasn't sucked in to trading midfielders for a CHF - won them a flag and runner up

Geelong- remember ring around the rosy at Geelong high possessions chip chip stuff and lots of handball -they constantly turned the ball over and were beaten - Nothings changed they just got better at what they were doing

Hawthorn - Clarkson there were calls for his head from day one - They were not pushing forward trying to maintain possession and had unusual set ups an match ups that no one could understand - They slashed their list -high profile players were getting dumped and the side was copping some floggings - Did they budge - no

Now I know I might be pulling a very very long bow here - but who is to say that what we are seeing each and every week isn't the start of the greatest unbeatable game plan that ever existed

We know at the moment it often looks like total garbage but so did all the others - how do we know that the current blokes sitting in the coaches box are not the next bunch of football genius