keogh wrote:
There is always speculation
Will Fasolo turn it around
McAdam is that sort of Fasolo type player
Is younger than Fasolo
But unproven at AFL
The SANFL is a shit standard
All these things are part of the equation
If you look at McGoverns output it’s not that great
We don’t need another player like him
We need mids
Stands out like a sore thumb
Some amazing highlights buts that’s it
As I said it’s panic The club don’t want to wait any longer
The club was in a bit of shock with some of the efforts
this year
The Fremantle first half in Melbourne
The Brisbane game
The GWS game
It’s the short term fix
Guys it doesn’t work
If The recruiting staff are any good
we would have got at least one decent mid
from the 20s and greater depth if we had kept
both of them
Look at MCGoverns output
It isn’t that impressive
Carlton have not adapted to how you
build a premiership team since the draft and salary cap
took full effect 20 years ago
Posters here give examples of teams getting star players
for draft picks
Don’t forget that these teams were better than we are now
By a long way
despite a change in off field personnel
the club continues to be inpatient
We need more depth in the middle and build are list with kids
The AFL offer us some help and we piss it up the wall
With freebies from the lower leagues
McAdam may be a dud
McGovern may be a star
There may be no good mids after pick 25
If it’s the opposite then the people in charge at Carlton should
just @#$%&! off
Because mistakes aren’t learnt from
There is no 100% way of doing things, you are looking at things too much in black and white.
We have a lot of kids on our list, but literally no one decent older than Docherty and younger than Ed Curnow, which is where most sides core exists.
As you mentioned Newman is a good pickup and will be a definite upgrade on Oshite, Mullett and Shaw.
Setterfield looks a sound deal, and worth the risk.
Fasolo i disagree being a poor deal, he’s proven he can play at an above average AFL level and fills a need, where we have literally 0 decent small or mid sized forwards. Also he had way more natural talent than Wright had, and we got him for nothing.
McGovern was a deal we had to do, and he’s a proven above average AFL player and will ease pressure on Charlie and McKay up forward as another target. Also even though he’s a different size, this should mean we very rarely see Casboult playing, and don’t have to throw Weitering forward anymore.
It’s not like every club who wins a flag had a flawless strategy in getting there.
You are reimagining the past to make it seem like West Coast are geniuses in everything they did in order to get a flag. 7 months ago Redden looked a bust, Jetta considered rubbish and they had no midfield.
Look at any successful side and they have all had different paths getting there. Doggies sold the farm for Boyd which can’t be considered a good idea all things considered but they still got a flag.
Richmond has a complete bust on Yarran but won a flag anyway.
Reiminging Mayne as some shrewd genius move by the Pies is really going into another dimension, when Buckley described his whole contract as a mix up basically.
Pies getting Wells can hardly be considered a success either.
We can go on and on. Just seems you are fixated on nit picking anything until we start being successful on field. And at the end of the day that is what we all want, but I’m confident what we have done this off season will get us closer there, not further away.