Disagree the 5% upgrades won't win u a premiership.
Grigg has not improved since coming to the club. If we drafted a kid who knows what he could have turned into. Sam Frost is a better footballer than Chaplin. Rookie player vs 400k dud.
Sam Lloyd been good.
Money ball is rubbish and the people need to take responsibility for doing the top up rubbish that ruined the club in the Frawley era.
Petterd
Chaplin
Edwards
Grigg
Hampson
Plus more
All average C graders. Best case scenario gets u a token finals appearance which is what we have achieved and thus have peaked.
Pathetic.
sorry pope but i disagree. i dont think any of those selections bar hampson are wrong or to put a better way the wrong process.
i disagree with hampson only because of where we took him considering his history. every other player has cost virtually nothing bar the salary we pay em.
there is a place for taking mature recruits and in the main weather they have worked out or not we have taken most of our mature recruits in the right place. that is as rookies, f/a and late nd picks, at the same time taking kids in the nd with decent picks.. that is until this yr.
i keep on saying it, it is all about the right balance and constantly sticking to and going thru the right processes.
in taking hampson we neglected to take a young ruckman as well.
in taking chaplin we neglected to take a young potential 1v1 kpd.
we took grigg but where is the young quick highly skilled outside kid as well. we havent taken any or maybe one when we need 2 or 3.
houli was an upgrade on blokes who couldnt hit the side of a barn. but we now revert back to taking poor kicks and playing far too many on game day.
petterd well hes one i dont understand. we didnt have many medium sized forwards but did we go after a quality junior fwd. we only had o hanlon at the time.
the other main reason why we are in strife is the almost non existent number of real decent players who have come thru the nd after the first round.
to me we still need to fix our recruiting up weather that is sack jackson or find him some real good help i dont care which all i know is we have serious problems here still and its too important an area to not address.
on the rebuild. well common sense told us all it was never anywhere near complete . it was obvious under hardwick we went from a rabble to a middling side. it was never going to take much to go wrong to miss the 8 or in our case drop back out of the 8.
making finals before the list was complete or close to complete now really hurts because we clearly thought we were further advanced than what we were and recruited for exclusively now and forgot about the bigger picture .
