keogh wrote:
This rebuild of the last 3 years isn’t
a rebuild
Our or more appropriately SOS’s obsession
with GWS has left us with a list that is short on talent
The combination of injuries and youth were partly
the reason we had our worst season in the clubs history
Personally I don’t rate
Plownan
Kennedy
Pickett
Marchbank
Phillips
As high as others
Already we can see the effects of these GWS rejects
on our list with a number of them being delisted
after contributing SFA to the sides”rebuild
On top of this we have recruited blokes who have been spared
the arse because we have already delisted close to ten players
And the premature retirement of the 2 Irish Boyd
Byrne is a big loss
That guy could play
We still have
Garlett
Jones
Lang in our list who arnt up to it
Giving Murphy a two year contract is ridiculous
given the guys output in recent years and he is 32 next year
Simpson along with Cripps our best player over the last 4 years
has only one year left
Personally I don’t rate Cuningham
Looks a million dollars when he has the pill but simply doesn’t
get it enough
Silvangi doesn’t have the physical tools to play the game at the highest level
He has been tried in every position gives it his all
but in my opinion falls short
Le Bois has done nothing in 2 years
Thomas and Casboult arnt going to get better
Kreuzer is about cooked
The list still has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese
and in my opinion like when the club sacked Ratten and appointed
The old Prick we have over rated the list
And yet bar Walsh we rule ourselves out of this draft
And a fair bit of 2019 draft giving up our second round pick
for Setterfield
I’m not ranting for the sake of it
It’s what I believe
To give up good picks in the draft IMO is the
wrong strategy
We simply don’t recruit as well as other clubs
And we don’t develop them as well as other clubs
Why we don’t have a stand alone VFL team
Despite all this time
We will be more competitive next year
with a better run with injuries
But I still think we could have done better with
Our trades and recruiting
You don’t seem to have any coherent strategy or plan to counter what we have done. What exactly would you do differently?
Less GWS players? Sure but who else are you getting in for the value we paid for them?
Don’t rate some of our draft picks? Not everyone is going to make it, that’s across the AFL in general. Can’t see how our recent strike rate is lower than anyone else from 15-18, if anything it’s pretty good.
We have gone from no youth prospects in 2015 apart from Cripps and Docherty to now having C Curnow, Weitering, McKay, Williamson, SPS, Setterfield, Marchbank, Plowman, Macreadie, Fisher, Dow, O’Brien and De Koning. Out of those 13 I’m confident at least 8 will be good AFL players.