If Not BB, Who?

[Lods]

Like i said lods.  Unless everything went perfectly, it's not surprising.  The only reason we weren't going to finish last was if the wheels fell off somewhere else.

Our best case scenarios are still to finish in the 12-14 range at the start of the season.  Our worst case scenarios are 15-18.  All it takes for our worst case scenarios is for the cliff to come for a team like Sydney, gold coast, Brisbane, st kilda and we go from worst to best case winning 5 games for the year.

It's really simple to look at and see and some of us called it based on our injury list in January.

I certainly didn't envisage our worst season ever three years into a rebuild.
But what's done is done.

I guess the point I'm making is that how we feel about a 15-18 finish is not that important in isolation.
It's how it's playing out in the wider club supporter/member base and public environment (media sponsors etc).

How impatient are the board.
How impatient are the movers and shakers.

We've had some significant movement with two of the main advocates of the rebuild in Trigg and Mckay having moved on.
They began a process and for whatever reason didn't see it through.

I've mentioned before that the faith in a direction is a leakage process.
Continued losses slowly eats away at the support until a bigger, unfixable hole appears.
Finish 17-18th and the hole is entering the "Evacuation zone"

The bottom line is that few Carlton supporters want to see this process fail and all it really needs is some turnarounds.
Player improvement and development is fine, but unless it's accompanied by results it's not effective in the eyes of supporters and members.
Truth is we don't remember the years of development.
We only remember the outcomes.
Ten years from now the last three years will just be a blur.
All that will matter is what happens next...and that has to be improvement.