Winning isn't everything

[Thryleon]

Also if you have a look at Hawthorn's record before their rebuild began:

1999 - 9th
2000 - 8th
2001 - 6th
2002 - 10th
2003 - 9th
2004 - 15th
2005 - 14th
2006 - 11th
2007 - 5th
2008 - 2nd
2009 - 9th
2010 - 7th
2011 - 3rd
2012 - 1st
2013 - Premiers
2014 - Premiers
2015 - Premiers
2016 - 3rd
2017 - 12th
2018 - 4th
2019 ??




It becomes really clear why we are where we are at, and why its definitely going to take us a bit longer to really get moving:

Carlton:

1999 - 6th
2000 - 2nd
2001 - 5th
2002 - 16th
2003 - 15th
2004 - 11th
2005 - 16th
2006 - 16th
2007 - 15th
2008 - 11th
2009 - 7th
2010 - 8th
2011- 5th
2012 - 9th
2013 - 9th
2014 - 13th
2015 - 18th
2016 - 14th
2017 - 16th
2018 - 18th
2019 - ????


The point being, that Hawthorn, rallied on the back of a couple of years in the wilderness.  We are trying to undo a culture of failure dating 18 years with a brief period out of that wilderness coinciding with us having a coach coaching for results, and having access to some genuine superstars.  Moral of the story, we forgot to develope for the future and ended up right back on the bottom of the pile, because we are used to assembling a team and going for a premiership.

We are not doing that this time.  We are building one from scratch using the squad that SOS built, and if anyone is still around from before to taste some success, bonus.