04-30-2018, 02:26 AM
(04-30-2018, 01:23 AM)Lods link Wrote:They can, and will refuse us a PP because we have publicly chosen the rebuild path.
We've deliberately cut our list back starting in 2015.
We played finals two years before that.
It's hard to argue that we're in the position we're in through anything other than our own deliberate decisions and actions.
We've gone backwards to go forward but....
They will say that had we followed a less radical approach we wouldn't have fallen so far.
You get assistance because you're hopeless...you won't get it because you're following a planned strategy to renew your list.
You might get an argument about being hopeless if Essendon belt us......but I agree our rebuild status is of our own doing and I cant see the AFL giving us charity on that basis.
Also it kind of sells the idea the rebuild has failed if we are asking for charity.....