2018 Rd 13: Post Game Prattling-Carlton v Fremantle

[Thryleon]

We had cream at the top but crap in the bottom half. The 2011 SF had 8.players off the rookie list. Other than Judd we had all those players were there under Pagan. Say what you want about Ratten he turned us from a basket case to finalist in 2 years.

We have become extremely emotive and reactive with our decision making.  Ironically with Ratten had we reviewed our situation properly we might have simply moved forward with him rather than changing to Malthouse. 

We have applied the same emotive decision making we used to sack Brittain, Appoint Pagan, Sack Pagan, Appoint Ratten, sack Ratten and then appoint Malthouse.  The club appear to have finally learned their lesson, and have sacked Malthouse for good reason, and then appointed Bolton with the appropriate decision making lacking from our football club in it's history.  Let's not go further back.  Football has been a very different business since the millenium, and it took us 15 years to come to gripps with the decision making required to suit the current era.  The problem is, we might be 15 years too late, and therefore still a bit behind the others today, but we can catch up quickly if we leave the footy team alone and start focussing on the rest of the place and what we need to get better at (simply running the place for a start).

Abysmal? You're F joking. We had generally an ordinary side and we got to play finals within 2 years after being a basket case like we are now. Open your eyes and have a look at his record compared to every other coach since 2001. Would've been alot more interesting if he had SOS as his List Manager rather than that dud Wayne Hughes, given we were close to a PF one year. We turned other sinto hacks, he turned us around. Imagine a coach a Carlton recently having a better than 50% record, playing finals, and in the year he was sacked for Malthouse he still won 11 games in  an injury hit year. We'd kill for that now. He did way better than Pagan and Malthouse, two "gun" coaches. while you talk about abysmal appointments I'll point to the scoreboard. I know who wins that one.

Without reinventing the wheel and covering off the old territory of this one I think we are at the point, where the only tangible information we can draw from any of this period is that the decision making of the footy club is more broken.

I had this opinion once before.  Its simply time to stop meddling in the football part of the football club, and start looking at the methodology behind running the place, which speaks for why we changed from Steven Trigg to Cain Liddle.  I am most enthused that Liddle has not appeared to do much aside from make a simple statement about our club culture which was 110% on the money.  We got ourselves into this situation and we will get ourselves out of it.

The structure we now have is correct, the problem is implementation, both on and off field!

Yep.  An often quoted statement at my place of employment.  We need to do better with the things we have, rather than look to add to them, or make changes and bring in more people.  For some time, we have been adding people to our footy club, and then dragging them down to our level.  We need to start doing the opposite and have people come in, and start bringing us up to their level.