Sydney Blue wrote:
Crows only won 7 games all last year - we are round 8 and they have now won 7
Why cant Carlton do things like that
Have been saying this for years. At some point a side needs to make a quantum leap improvement, not just these pissy little "well we lost a final last year and this year we won one - we must be improving" bullshit statements. Too many TC'ers will rattle of lines such as
"well what would you do?"
"hindsight is a wonderful thing with recruiting"
"at the start of the season would you have taken this?"
"look at the number of wins, we have improved"
etc etc etc
All crap. Those of us who lived through the glory years will tell you that one of the reasons we were powerful was because we disn't tolerate failure. Yes it's a far cry fom those days and the world has changed like we could never have imagined.
Bottom line is that there are too many on this site who just think it will happen, who dismiss losses as something we just get used to cause there's always next week. Synbad needs no one to fight his battles for him, but in the main, I've agreed with much of what he says.
Our recruiting in the last 5 years has been abysmal. Our future is bleak when we are relying on Dale, Buckley, Lucas, Mitchell, Watson and McCarthy to turn things around. And for those who talk about our rookie successes, the bottom line is that if they had been failures, no one would have said anything cause they were speculative anyway.
We flowered up with Russell, Bower, Grigg, Hampson, Mclean possibly Warnock and I think Watson??
Our coaching has been exposed. enough said
Gibbs has never won a game on his own, yet many will point to wonderful stats playing as a bruise free quarterback. Finally, some on this site are taking their rose coloured glasses off.
Our intensity has been exposed. enough said
Behind the scenes, Pratt's and Mathesons money will fix everything up for us
This is not a Sack Ratten vent! I'm just frustrated....particularly with our future....who are the next group of kids?