You can only play whats out there at any given point in time within reason claw.
We can control what we are doing and depending on how well we control the opposition will depend on whether we win or not.
It is of no fault of ours that we have played opposition that is below strength and won b/c had we lost those we would be arking up and complaining about we lost to an understrength side blah blah blah.
I still think our wins are positive and I still see that you also raise some valid points. The excitement generated in the last month has been as a result of our on field efforts but until we can beat the sides we should beat as was the case two weeks ago and last night we will always be battlers at best who have a brief moment in the sun because we are the flavour of the week and then we are back on the backberner.
Perhaps also theis talk of 3-0-75 although realistic is still a fair way off and may never eventuate as the way I see it if we want to consider ourselves a Big 4 club we shouldn't be selling our home games anywhere for anything. Until that day I am prepared to wait but we are half way through Dimma's tenure and he has done wonders so far but he needs to get the consistency into the side and address our defensive and ruck issues.
look in honesty i dont disagree with to much of that. all im trying to do is get people to keep things in perspective.we have had a good rub of the green.
we dont have the players to take us to top 4 in fact if we were to make the 8 it would be an out and out over achievement based more on luck than worthiness or readiness.
we lack in many areas. We have a long way to go but we all know this deep down, so why all the angst when we lose.
Ya know if we played games with few kids and lost like we did in the wallace and frawley yrs id be filthy. Thing is we are playing kids and we need to play as many as possible as often as possible, if we lose doing this so be it.
We are locked into the process and it would be utter folly to change tack now. we need to find those who can take us forward and probably more important quickly identify those who cant and keep on turning over the list until we do find those that can.
I think it highly likely over the next 2 or 3 seasons we will turn over another 20 odd players we will be not much different to a lot of other clubs. We need to find kpps ruckmen quality smalls and we need to build depth across the board.
all i want is for our supporters to get it into their heads we are in just yr bloody 2 of what may end up being a complete overhaul of the list. any wins we get atm should be looked upon as a bonus and good for our kids morale. but lets not let a few wins against ordinary or struggling sides cloud where we are actually at and what needs to be done.
im like everyone else i want to win, but i dont want to forever and a day just get the odd win against ordinary sides and this is what will happen if we dont properly go thru the rebuild process now.
I am prepared to go thru lots of pain now or over the next couple of seasons so we can win on a regular basis and actually challenge for a flag in the future.
People just have to realise it takes time and they have to reign in expectations for the short term.They also have to be realistic about our players and how good they are.
