Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 11: Carlton vs Sydney

[PaulP]

Change the recruiting criteria to allow for some players who enjoy the contest a bit harder but might not
be the right fit for Sunday School and the types who when they ask for their steak rare want it still kicking on the plate...
I dont think its any secret that a lot of the other clubs think we can be intimidated with a bit of physicality, not king hits but just that extra vigour in the contest or a push and shove until we capitulate.
Until we have players who can deliver and respond to that physicality we will be seen as weak and will have our better players targeted. I remember Cripps got targeted by both Jordan Lewis and Viney from Melbourne one game and none of our players did anything and were just too meek and mild. It sets a bad example and tells the other team if we go harder in the big moments the Navy Blue boys will just roll over.
Hope Harry McKay was watching Buddy....Harry is a nice guy, Buddy didnt get to the status he has being nice, dont think I have ever seen Harry lay a bump or doing anything remotely nasty.

I guess the point I was making is that the personal pronoun "we" as it relates to the club, and as it relates to this topic, encompasses hundreds and possibly thousands of changes in every department, over the last 15 or 20 years. Hundreds of players, a few different recruiters, numerous senior coaches, assistant coaches, heads of football, recruiters, list managers, board members, presidents etc. Notwithstanding all this, the failures of the previous recruiter / coach / player etc., become part of the identity of the successor, since when someone fails, the successor defines themselves (at least in part) in opposition to what has come before. They don't copy each other, and they are chosen as successors precisely because they offer a point of difference to their predecessor. There is a specific attempt made to disconnect from the past and fix those errors. And yet across these numerous changes and attempts to fix the errors of the past, the niceness persists...............