2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane

[Thryleon]

We lost the finals in 09, 10, and 11 by 7, 5 and 3 points respectively. All played interstate. You don't reckon Fev is worth a goal a game ?

Fev might have been, but to play Fev odds are we move someone else OUT of the forward line, AND we don't get the change in team ethic that we got by ousting him.

There are many layers to this change than 1 out 1 in = premiership.

There's defensive pressure, goal assists, and even team structure and balance, without the psychological factor of sacking a star player and what that does to a group in terms of both polarising and galvanising them.

You don't sack Fev, and chances are we end up in a similar scenario we ended up in with him.

Its like saying that had we played Yarran instead of Davies we would have won.  He might have leaked a tonne more goals, or disjointed our backline in a way that further added to our loss against West Coast/Sydney.

Either way, we can't know.  The chances are that the results wouldnt have changed dramatically for various reasons, and we were no closer to a flag then than we were in 2011.