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[Thryleon]

Yep.

Those replacements looked pretty good to a lot of people 4 years ago.
I would have done most of those swaps...at the time!

Laidler was playing playing fairly average football for us but a few thought he was hard done by.while he had some support not many were very upset by him going.
For me it wasn't a great loss
Robinson and Garlett had proven to be undisciplined and were regarded as just good average players at best.
...and Waite was either injured or suspended.

Of the incoming all were sold as having the ability to offer something, except perhaps Tutt.
As it turned out we were disappointed.

Hindsight is a terrific thing

Robbo- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1537.0
Garlett- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1622.0
Waite- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1225.0
Laidler- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=402.0

Now plenty of doubters in this lot but also quite a few pointing out positive aspects...

Whiley- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1641.0
Boekhorst- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1728.0
Jones- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1601.0
Jaksch- http://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=1554.0


So at the time it was pretty much like for like with our wins and losses....but with hindsight maybe not :

...and folks have been using the term 'rebuild' since 2002 on this forum.
and Sheik had most of the first group on his 'sacked' or 'cracked' list

My point being was, that we were not bullish about our future then.

Look how much has to go right:

MK develops into a good ruckman
Murphy has a great year
Thomas gets over his injury and returns to form
Waite gets on the park and isn't past it
Judd isn't broken
Garlett plays well without Betts
Robinson clicks under MM
Watson goes from a twos player to holding down a key post
Gibbs and Yarran pull their fingers out
Carrots gets on the park and the game hasn;t gone past him.
Curnow continues to be an good tagger

Too many question marks all over the ground for this year. Maybe it clicks in 2015 but it would be looking ominous for those guys.

Read this post.  Have a look at the caveats ItsOurTime made about our list back then.

Read that thread.  Note the month of discussion.  January, 2014.  Our great white hopes back then, were 24 year old blokes kicking on and becoming stars of the competition, not the kids developing into 4 quarter players.