"It looks as though we have very dumb football players playing for us but I ask would those players made the same fundamental errors if playing at Collingwood or Hawthorn or the Swans."
Pretty sure the Hawks had Tiger jumpers underneath last night, no other way to explain that last minute.
Very good y&b.
Let me ask you something.......
Will hawthorn and Geelong play finals?
Or do they only dream about playing finals?
Both teams have proven they have great culture over a number of years.
My point is we don't have a good culture as yet.
This i agree with, and it is a vastly different thing to saying we still have the same culture that permeated the club under wallace
it sure is vastly different to what hes been saying.
i wonder when it changes again. thing is when you look at the list and the kpis that govern onfield success we are a good chance to miss finals again next yr unless of course we manage to bring in a load of decent experienced players and kids who are ready to go. thats just the state of the list atm.
winning culture is nothing more than actually having enough players capable of winning games of footy for you. we just dont have enough. geelong and hawthorn just happen to have very good depth and their fair share of a and b graders with lots of experience and lots of players who are in the right age brackets with plenty of games behind them. they have depth and very good structures. they win games of footy most of the time because they have the players capable of winning most of the time.
recruit well build a strong list and develop well and winning culture will take care of itself. you cant win games of footy with out the cattle even if your culture is excellent.
daniel and others constantly criticise players and in most cases the players deserve criticiseing that part they have right.
what they have wrong is expecting to win games with the very players they criticise.
on different sites this yr and previous yrs ive had to argue that teams like nm game was a 50/50 game or worse. gc was a 50/50 game brisbane was always a 50/50 game gws was always going to be a test melbourne 50/50 need i go on. why but blokes like daniel argue we should win it.
only when we get enough players into the a and b categories. that is our fair share of elite and very good players.
only when we get enough decent players with enough games behind them. only when we have enough older heads and bigger bodies in the right age groups.
only when we build some depth and enough of the kids develop over a 3 or 4 yr period and become good consistent players will we become a genuine finals contender and not a minute before.
focusing on the win loss column ignores all these things and more and really is irrelevant until we actually tick all of these boxes.
if mediocrity is tantamount to players and some individuals not being good enough then yes we have our fair share of mediocrity. in saying that we most certainly have had our faoir share of improvement in many key areas and we just need to keep on working on areas that we need to do better at. this has not changed one bit not since the start of the yr or now.
