05-15-2019, 04:42 AM
(05-15-2019, 04:25 AM)Lods link Wrote:The problem is Paul that you cant complete this puzzle without one vital piece.
Wins!
It's rather bizarre really..
The win/ loss record is the reality.
The games 'we should have won' are the fantasy
The "we'll be right if we're just patient" is the prophecy.
The only way for things to play out as the 'patient' people and the 'impatient' ones wish is exactly the same thing...a winning side!
What I wish for more than anything is a professionally run club, one that follows good precedent, good process and one that looks at things holistically. Understanding metrics beyond W/L is not fantasy. Otherwise Hardwick, Buckley and Thompson would have been sacked long ago. Understanding that losses against GC, Hawks, Pies were due to inexperience, luck, umpiring etc. is not fantasy. We cannot be right in each game up to our teeth, give Bolton no credit for that, then when we lose in the dying seconds, say he's crap.
Look back over the last 20 years, and tell me which clubs change coaches every 5 seconds - the good ones, or the crap ones ?