99prelim wrote:
keogh wrote:
The personal isn’t there
It’s recruiting
I keep saying it
We need to start again
BULLSHIT Keogh
If we had 18 Jack Silvagni's (with his ability) out there wanting to win for the jumper at all costs, the narrative would be a polar opposite to what we have
It's so f%^^&) easy to say that we have f^&*()ed up our drafting/recruiting for most years
We have f^((_^%%$ed up our COACHING and our DEVELOPMENT significantly more than our recruiting
Disagree obviously
Recruiting is the key
The way footy is these days it starts in the midfield.
You have to have 8 or 9 blokes capable of playing there
We recruited Martin and Williams with free agency
They don’t have the skill set to play there
To read the play
To have the guts to think ball first rather than contact
Combine their contracts it’s 11 years and around 8.5 million dollars
Other than a handful of games over a combined 16 years they have shown nothing to suggest they can play midfield
They were recruited to play there and can’t
Their fitness is not good enough which shouldn’t be the case in their mid 20 s
That is shit recruiting
Do you look at other teams
I’ll give an example of a guy who plays midfield
Dan Houston
Pick 45 in the rookie draft
He is contributing in the midfield
Martin isn’t yet both have achieved the same amount of awards
A rising star nominee
3rd in a B and F
Who is the better player?
Do you want me to keep going
Nah do your own research
We are shit in terms of our footy because our recruiting has been diabolical
Tell me is sacking Teague going to change things
Brittian
Pagan
Ratten
Malthouse
Bolton
Teague???
Makes no difference
Not to mention all the changes internally in other important positions of admin
I have been advocating more importantly for a change at board level
The only way things can change is if someone comes in recognizing the past present and future and basically fixing the culture of the club
That was Brendan Gale in 2011 at Richmond
9 years later hey presto 3 flags
They are on the downward spiral now which happens in sport governed by equalization
That’s what we need not another wanky review
If that happens there won’t be any more wanky Williams Martin recruiting