frank dardew wrote:
Understand what you are saying Sue and generally agree that this is an exciting list but with all that talent and potential how do you explain yesterday's performance and you can understand why some of us after the ineptitude of yesterday would be disappointed with the performance and would not be looking forward to next week against the Pies
I definitely can understand it Frank. But remember that most of the current players and coaching staff were not part of the failures of the past. We have endured 17 years of pain but I think we should not be letting it blacken our view of this group, over half of which yesterday have played less than 50 games. Dow was 3 years old when we were done for salary cap breaches!
2016 was ‘ground zero’ for me. We have played 46 games under Bolts. We haven’t won many of them but I am prouder to be a Carlton supporter than I was from 2002-2015, which were absolutely wasted years. By the end of 2018, we will only have 4 or 5 players on our list who were there before Bolts arrived. Three years to turn over an entire list is incredible and speaks to exactly how far back we are coming from.
A complete youth focused rebuild (which we have never done before) never moves forward in a linear movement. I was always expecting a tough year. 3 of the top 4 in our B&F did not play yesterday. A team that only won 6 games for the season can’t afford to lose that talent. Add the fact that we are tinkering with our game style and have new line coaches, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that we’re lacking cohesion and consistency at the moment.
I’m far from happy about it, but I am not surprised by it.
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