(05-13-2019, 03:02 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Fair point guys that Hawthorn premiership side was on average a year older than our boys who lost on the weekend and played an average of 35 games more.
If you consider that Weitering or Cripps is Luke Hodge, how does that stack up given he was drafted in 2001??
Ill give you a clue: 2014 (Cripps debut season) + the difference between Hodge and Hawthorns first flag (IMHO, jagged before their official chance at a flag due to a bit of luck with recruits, and some careful longer term planning) = 2020 being a best case scenario.
If you then consider that their 3 peat started in the 3rd year of their premiership window (they lost to Collingwood by 3 points in the 2011 Prelim) which signalled the arrival of said plan coming to fruition) so add 3 more years:
2022-23 is when we will be arriving in earnest IMHO, and thats using Cripps as our signalling our rebuild, and yet, we were not as calculated as Hawthorn were at the time.
Thats if we keep following the current methodology.
What it should mean, is that so long as the incumbant to replace Bolton (im yet to be convinced we should) doesnt upset the apple cart. If the incumbant does, and using Cripps recent interview where he states he wants to stick it out and finish what he started, then we probably shouldnt be changing the coach at all.
4 in 40 or whatever.
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