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Offline Big Bloke

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Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« on: December 14, 2014, 04:13:27 PM »
I am confident we have a finals team but there's something inside me that says we're not good enough (both in a playing and coaching capacity) to win a premiership.

What do you think? Got that same doubt?

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2014, 04:21:14 PM »
i think we can

the core if there

lids
martin
cotchin
rance
riewoldt
vlastuin
miles

etc.

just need a new coach and to tweak things up a bit

would still like a couple big fish ala nicnat/cameron for a final top up/push

ive always felt its gotta be done before lids hangs up the boots personally ...

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2014, 04:34:01 PM »
I don't think we can do it with;

Batch
Edwards
Grigg
Newman
Chaplin
Dea


and dare I say it perhaps even Hardwick, but who knows.

Add;

Dangerfield
Sheil
Cameron

and maybe Bomber or Woosha....who knows

With the likes of Ellis, Lennon and a few of our recruits coming along, we could do it.

Maybe
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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2014, 05:08:02 PM »
not a chance
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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2014, 05:40:38 PM »
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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2014, 05:47:58 PM »
The nature of this question itself suggests the club is poor.

Would it be too much to ask the club to win 2-3 grand finals in the next few years?

Yes it would......yet that's what great teams do 

Sadly we all deep down know this isn't going to happen.

LMAOFFS. Our crew are just wishing for ONE flag so they can die with some semblance
of happiness.
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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2014, 05:48:11 PM »
I think not due to the expansion clubs compromising the drafts when we had early picks.
I fear we will be the bulldogs and saints of the past ten years, close but not close enough.

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2014, 05:49:28 PM »
not a chance

Why?  Norf are poot. Hawks old. Expansion clubs not yet in final form etc.

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2014, 05:53:58 PM »
not a chance

Why?  Norf are poot. Hawks old. Expansion clubs not yet in final form etc.

Regardless.

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2014, 06:31:43 PM »

given the talent of the top-end of the list; any coach would struggle to do awful at richmond.


imagine if you had a roos or hinkley

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2014, 06:47:03 PM »
More like how many  :clapping
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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2014, 07:07:19 PM »

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2014, 07:18:53 PM »
hard to say - in 2007, 2008 most people were saying the pies were no where near a premiership side, good honest team without any stars, good enough to finish 5-8 but not good enough for the big dance. They made the finals several yrs in a row and morphed into a very solid unit and funnily enough some stars were discovered/came to the fore.

You have to learn to crawl before you walk - if we can make finals again this season we are definitely building towards it and as our club becomes battle hardened, who knows where it will lead?
« Last Edit: December 14, 2014, 07:42:07 PM by tony_montana »

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Re: Can we win a premiership in the next few years
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2014, 07:49:16 PM »
not a chance

Why?  Norf are poot. Hawks old. Expansion clubs not yet in final form etc.
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