12 months ago , Essentially the same playing group took the football world by storm with its giant killing approach toward finals football. Only some tinkering was required to bridge the gap to take us that step or two from top 4. Instead that tinkering has taken us to bottom four.
I'm absolutely livid , this list is right up there and yet we couldn't beat an egg the way we re playing. If I had anything to do with it , dimma would be on notice with a longer term plan for Cambo to be installed as senior coach.
lol the list has always been in the mire with about 12 14 other teams. if you think we were head and shoulders above 13 other teams you were truly delusional.
we were and remain a middling team who is having a tough time of it atm. we at no stage have ever become a good side capable of regularly playing finals.
the list lacked depth and quality it still does. it used to lack maturity and experience but over the last two yrs we sure as hell fixed that didnt we. trouble is we did it with a shedload of glass half fulls adding to the many glass half fulls we already had.
there was absolutely no need to take the number of mature players we took this yr not unless they were quality players.
Would be fair to say those comments were not consistent with how we performed in 2013 , registering 15 wins along the way with major scalps against the two GF sides. Not sure that 12 other sides accomplished that 
rubbish we played better footy the yr before.
yes we won 15 games and it was clearly an over achievment but the hype and spin sucked plenty like you in. the list certainly screamed at us all that nothing we had done was sustainable. it is a lot like 2001 there was a lesson to be learnt from 2001 instead we made the same mistakes.
you see it all the time middling sides who have great runs with injury, play against opposition sides at the right time, have things generally go your way and have players perform above what they can sustain. that was last yr for us. the yr before that it was nm. before that essendon.
we knocked over top sides hawthorn and sydney in 2012 it didnt mean much. just like beating hawthorn last yr meant nothing. when it counted to the hawks they thrashed us.
mate its the depth of the list and the quality spread thru it that determines the true state of the list. we have sorely lacked in both under hardwick and we continue to lack in them.
plenty of ordinary sides have made finals and plenty more ordinary ones will continue to make finals.
your trouble is you dont work things out for yourself and you get sucked in by the hype and spin the club feeds you.
