2018 Rd 17: Post Game whatever : Carlton vs Hawthorn

[Thryleon]

What i am saying is that right now, we are in the midst of our rebuild. Every kid is a winner right now because, we can't see otherwise.

I've pointed out that this is pretty much always the case when you are 'in the moment'. Its only with hindsight that we say 'this kid was never any good.'


I've tried to show you examples of that, which you disregard because it was not my personal opinion on them. I had no personal opinion on them because i didn't know them from a bar of soap, so i go through and see what the 'experts' thought at the time. That is, those players were not THAT bad.
So either we are incredibly unlucky and all our 'not bad' players turned out to be crap.
OR
We made them crap but not being able to develop them.

This was my original point.
People can't see how any of our players could even possibly turn out to be duds as they are all super amazing and awesome.
I'm just telling you that some will. Reality says they ALWAYS do.

That's not what I'm saying either kruddler.  We have done an amazingly bad job at developing our draftees but we've had very few that made you stood up and say, gee we've found one here until now.

Yes rebuild etc, but that's not the point.  I pointed to players who aren't just promising.  They've arrived.  They are playing good footy and doing jobs ahead of their level.  I'm not reaching for a couple of draftees whom we think is talented and listing them as potential 100 gamers like David Cunningham.  I'm pointing at blokes who have played almost as much footy in year one at a higher standard than Matthew Watson did in his 23 games across five years at the club, and by the time he was done we were looking for players to start building around.