keogh wrote:
It’s all about getting the process right
Recruiting
List management
Coaching
Player development
Looking Long term
Not going for the quick fix too early
Couldn’t careless what you blokes think of me
“What it means to me “ is yesterday’s win was a terrific come from behind victory
A temporary respite from the misery
But don’t wall paper the cracks
There is a long way to go
I want a 17 th flag as much as you blokes
But there is much work to do and the club has many important decisions to make over the next six months to get things back on track
All fair points that I largely agree with.
It did take a superhuman effort by Cripps to get us over the line, I’m glad one of these efforts finally got us a win as opposed to an honourable loss.
I think Bolton was a big part of the problem as winning had gone so low down on his list of priorities not realizing everyone was totally getting demoralized in the process.
Our recruiting at the pointy end of the draft over the last 4 years gives us a base to work with, basically everything else we have done (picks outside the top 30 and trading) has been abysmal.
Gibbons we were lucky to get (well unlucky doc went down) and now he’s got the pace of afl and is being played more on ball he looks good.
Newman is a decent pickup, although made some horrendous errors last couple of weeks. Still light years ahead of O’Shea, mullet and Shaw.
If we can show promise for the rest of the year, and win the kind of games we were losing earlier in the year we maybe able to snag a few decent established players from other clubs, who will no longer thing their just meat shields for the younger guys in a joyless development side.
Things that didn’t seem possible a week ago seem possible again, it may just be a one off but I’m expecting at least a hard fought showing against the Dogs next week. Suddenly if we can get belief in this group, as has happened in other teams over the years it can be a tsunami that’s hard to stop