keogh wrote:
It happened because the club was too quick in making decisions without thinking deeper enough *
And as the years tick on by and more failure occurs the more desperate the club needs success and more poor decisions are made
Like getting Blake Acres last year *
Right across the board poor decisions are made
You forgot to add IMO after the
*I accept that. But I still think Acres was a player we could fit in to do the job.
We've argued how Freo's salary cap was squeezed to get Jackson in.
We didnt pay a King's ransom.
But for where you say we are, Acres was cheap for a player in his form.
Acres is a hardened body who is in our top 5 players of late, when many others have let us down.
Whilst he's sprayed 4-5 kicks at the most inopportune times, he has accumulated and linked and run and hit bodies hard.
We have a lot of talent.
Salary Cap and soon to be Soft Cap will continuously increase. We will be OK with salary cap.
The way Carlton was skinned and gutted by Elliot and the AFL, and all the shit that followed, and Stephene Silvagni.
He decided that is what was needed: Nuke the place.
If we were still developing slowly year by year with draft picks, Cripps, Weiters Charlie and Jack would be the headline act.
But by taking away hope of a flag, these players may have gone elsewhere, and we start again, as a non desiny club.
You seem to dismiss the pressures this club was put under.
The Board get Carlton out of debt.
The Board build new elite facilities for the players to make it a destination club, and catch up with the world.
It isn't the Board that's failed, it's the Footy Dept which has let us down imo.
I don't know what it is they've done wrong, but do you?
I really believed Andrew Russell was the best at the time, and we are lucky to still have him.
But he needs more and we need more to help THE PLAYERS who put their best foot forward for the draft.
Building from Ground SOS skinning is a long way to get the chocolates if we dont trade in the best players we can: to help the High Draft Picks.
We have the nucleus of a great team. Its not all over, nor doom or gloom.
But, like you said, we do need good management decisions to be made moving forward.