Richmond doesn't get big fish and if we try and do we get stitched up at the 12th hour remember the Tony Lockett, even the Chris Judd deals.
Furthermore the club has been vomiting this ideal that we are better than last year and more so our best players are injured and therefore it's not worth looking at the kids plodding away in the ressies or that in the fifth year of a rebuild we will do no such thing as develop players therefore we won't be playing them and we will consolidate with established players.
Therefore like most of us on here can see where we are at and what we need to do, our views are along the same path just slightly different based on our own ideals I guess, the club however sees that it has 65000 members and is banking on losing so many members ie limiting the damage and not admitting to any wrongdoing whether that be in the boardroom or in the coaches box or even on the training ground or on draft day. It has happened before and it will happen again.
There are killers like the ones who kill their spouse( not that its right) for whatever reason, one time killers and there are serial killers like Denyer, Knight, Milat who unless they get caught they will keep on killing just like some footy clubs are failures like St Kilda, Melbourne Dogs but they do go their fans regular chances to smile by making finals the odd GF and such whereas the RFC are serial failures unless the club is stopped wiped clean from top to toe disinfected again and then hosed down like a rabied dog with a high pressure water hose The Cycle of Skata will continue for every 5-7 years repeatedly, unabated and more and more frustratingly worse each time the full cycle is completed.
The club will not spend money because every so often they need the fans to bail them up or the KPI graph to go on an upward trend for a few years to sell hope and footy dreams to us 35-45 somethings who remember the RFC being important when we were kids unlike now being inept and irrelevant.
Unless the war room at Punt Rd has changed philosophy and therefore tactics and at the end they cut their losses accept that we are somewhere between 40-60% of the way there and admit we need a few more years to get there that's all just a few more years to get 50 or so games into the batch from this year and some other kids already on the list then 2017 will be our 2010, 2005,2000,1993, 1987, 1983 and we all know how it has turned out since half time of the decider in 1982.
