Molly wrote:
They say stupidity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result. We're the kings of stupidity because we stuffed up our rebuild. Every week we take to the field with:
A slow and unaccountable midfield
No height or size in the key positions
Limited ball winning ability
No superstars
Limited ruckmen
But we have no depth to cover any of these deficiencies because we never draft. The Psychologist could answer this, but when was the last draft where we took more than three players? Was it 2010? The reason I ask is that you're hitting and hoping to fill deficiencies when you take one player in the vain effort of filling a gap - especially when your draft record in the second and third rounds is as poor as ours.
To finish things off, the club never levels with us. Each year they recruit rather than draft and hint that we are heading for top 4. I kind of get the trade for Thomas because Micky would have wanted to get someone in to show the others how to play his brand of footy. But trades for Docherty and Everitt were beyond me in a draft which seemed to have a bit of depth until about pick forty.
To demonstrate what I'm on about, here's a question: if you want to add pace to our midfield from outside tonight's squad, who are you going to call up? It's an indictment on our list management.
Everitt was a swap of second rounders and we may (just
may) have taken Giles with that higher pick anyway, however, you are right. We recruit and draft players in dribs and drabs and target our most glaring deficiencies rather than target players. It's recruiting based on the negative rather than the positive. We neglect far more than we make up.
We didn't trade for Thomas, was a free agent.
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