2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane

[blue4life]

It's quite possible that the rebuild is really just scratching the surface. Maybe deep down in the guts, the club isn't really doing the hard yards, because they've never really had to. Player development is a big tell for me. We've never really had to do it, and we still may not be doing it. Certainly looks that way.

We spent the first decade of the draft telling the world that it was a restraint of trade that wouldn't stand up in court, we didn't put any time or resources into it so we never became proficient at it.
We had the same attitude to the salary cap, that it didn't apply to us, and that ended in tears.
It's only in the last couple of years that we've finally realised that our way of doing things no longer worked, but by then we were so far behind the eight ball that what other clubs had done to get off the bottom wouldn't work for us.
So we decided on a ground up rebuild, but we'd never done it before and we are having all sorts of problems getting it right.