bondiblue wrote:
BV is frustrated like the rest of us.
What none of us know is whether the team peaked in 2011 or not.
What we do know is that many other teams have developed better lists and teams.
We've stalled...we've done nothing to improve since that 2011 peak...Menzel doesn't count in this mess.
This is not about MM imo...maybe partly as far as our ladder position is concerned, but the big problem lies in the past which got us where we are: Sticks Ratten Hughes. They put us in this place and ...the buck stops with Sticks...like Elliot you gotta go when you !@#$%& up.
The Richardson story is an intereting one, but I dont think we can give credit to Richardson for the development of the kids with the less than 30 games who played for the Pies last night. In fact I'm scratching my head wondering what Richardson developed whilst at Carlton because I can't see it. In fact I can't see what Richo achieved at Esendon either. Can anyone help. Maybe BV knows.
IMO, and its easy to say this retrospctively, the wheels were rusting off following our peak in 2011....injuries or no injuries we have a list full of softcox, with a lack of drive and fear of failure. Wrong characters for hard nosed week in weeek out footy.
We lack midfield depth in class (IMO 3 short) and lack classy KPF's (2 short) with Waite so unreliable. MM didn't put that list together, so lets put the blow torch on those that did, then we can focus on MM. Lets get rid of problem A (the visionary and head of this club that selects the recruiters and off field personnel: Sticks), then problem B (the recruiters), followed by problem C (the list cloggers who aint taking us anywhere), then the head coach who puts together his coaching team...because that coaching team of Barker, Brown and Capuano (I know Ratten legacy), but if MM wants them he's just as bad as Ratten.
If MM wants to give away players and draft picks (other than 2nd rounders) for Daisy and Harry well he can go too....Lets build a list for the future...like we should have in the first place...but get recruiters on board who know what they're doing.
"Fear of failure", our list reflects that.
We have smugly boasted about getting the 'All Australian' HBF, or the small utility who played well against a highly rated opponent, with our 2nd or 3rd active selection in each draft, as if that builds a list. Year after year, the likes of Browne, O'Keeffe, Davies, (to name a few) were virtually raved about pre-draft with vague whispers that they were our targets. What happens - we come away from the draft with
exactly those players, taken with relatively low picks! What's that tell us? It seems to suggest that (A) we have made up our minds early and (B) no other clubs rates them particularly highly. I find that astonishing! And these selections take up at least a third of our yearly intake of new players along with some 'golden boy' and some skinny project kid who won't grow or someone brought in to plug a need.
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