It only takes one final to fix those numbers although I think we'll be waiting another couple of years before it happens.
Heading into 1995 we had a few Tiges in the same boat as now playing a large number games before playing a final:
Knighter 129
Freezer 127
M.Gale 122
Brodders 115
Naish 84
Turner 77
Campbell 73
Maxfield 67
Richo, Daffy, Rogers, Duncan Kellaway had played 20s/30s games.
Statistics like that really paint a sad picture of how inept we have been over the course of three decades.
Whether its recruiting players who aren't up to scratch, poor coaches or coaches with guns to their heads from
overbearing and demanding boardrooms and off field supporter groups.
That's a real nucleus of players assembled there in 1995 that was lost to footy's black hole of underformance
on and off the field.
I think at least now the off field seems to be more stable than it was in that era considering we have a similar group of players who have played their fare share of footy for virtually no success.
