I'm usually about winning no matter where we are on the ladder but I have to admit the "T" word is starting to creep into my thought processes for the first time ever and for one very good reason. Ninth place finishes! I'm sorry, but they suck dogs balls, especially when we don't carry on the momentum of a very good second half season. If winning was all important to our players psyche, why didn't the winning feeling continue on into this year?? Why did it stop in the early 80's?? It wasn't because we lost that loving feeling, it was because we lost or didn't have the cattle to carry on sustained success! I now feel that the only way we are going to get that winning feeling back is to build the club with more quality youngsters and a decent coach to shape them into future stars. We have no key forwards or backmen of star quality. We have serviceable ones and serviceable is not going to win us premierships. I can see we have a really good core of young players and we need to keep that flow going by introducing more quality youngsters with early draft pics.
I will still hate seeing us lose especially to the scum and the wobbles and I will no doubt still cheer if we win, but if we don't, I won't feel too upset knowing that a team stuck in reverse gear with the current draft system, does deliver many advantages.