7dominator wrote:
As for your list,whilst there are many that rank equally poorly they still remain a legacy of what was left by the previously inept administration.
You Sheik, for a number of years have been very quick to call for mass sackings but have never indicated where the mysterious replacements would come from!
And the current administration decided to offload some of the poop (Allan, Murphy etc) and replace them with players even worse than they were. I agree that those players had to go but why did they have to pick-up the players they did ?? McGrath, Morrell, Harford, Johnson etc had plenty of people on TBV hoopin' & a hollerin' at how well we'd done during draft week. In fact one of the comments I remember quite vividly was "we own this trade week".
And look where they have got us ??
I will continue to call for mass sackings whilst we wallow in our own melancholy at the bottom of the ladder. We are copping drubbings now so what difference will it make if we play 18yo kids who have been picked up through the draft ?? So what if we cop another flogging, do you reckon we'll be able to tell the difference ?? At least with the kids playing, your weekly 'Positives' thread may have some semblance of excitement about a players progress instead of the usual 'the captain showed some leadership' sort of saccharinne shyte.
The draft is now the
ONLY way to build a list, there are no shortcuts, it's not like the old days where we could throw money at whoever we wanted. This new system was designed to bring us down and by god it has had it's desired effect. But stupidly we haven't helped ourselves by making stupid decisions in the administrative side of the club.
I couldn't give a rat's clack what you think of me researching young draftees, I enjoy it and will continue to do. However, until you accept the fact that we must continue drafting, drafting and drafting some more, we will never improve and get back up the ladder.
Furthermore, our whole recruiting program needs a complete revamp, I have been saying this for years, even before the poop hit the fan. We need to have people scrutinising every league in the country and by that, I don't mean watch just one game a year either. We need a dossier on every league, the players to watch, their progress, their strengths & weaknesses. This may sound like going completely over the top but that is what it has come down to now, we have to work smarter
AND harder than the other clubs in order to make up the lost ground and then streak ahead of them all once again.
Mature-age players, guys from the VFL, 'bush Coleman's' etc must be indentified and brought to the club. All of the guys in the TAC system get very well scrutinised, but what about the kids who aren't lucky enough to get on a TAC list ??
Keep turning them over, the list has to keep changing every year. Not only is that part of the rules but it's the only way to get somewhere. No time for sentiment now, favourite players have to be axed if they are not up to it, the fans are irrelevant when it comes to the playing list.
Football is a business, a very big business, yet we run our club like it's a corner milk-bar. Time to get far more professional than we ever have. Flick anyone and everyone who isn't up to the high standard we have to set (and that goes for the admin people as well).
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