AFL Rd 23 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Collingwood

[Baggers]

There it is, it's called player development and historically we have had next to none!

Instead we tend to pump up tyres, overpay, throw them in the deep end to see who floats, then complain about slow or stalled development.

I think our club still until recently anyway, had a downhill culture, given a choice between the certainty of the hard yards and the chance of a quick fix, we go the quick fix on almost every occasion!

Even BB who is known industry wide as a top player development type coach, almost destroyed the list by trying to accelerate youth development through adversity, what didn't kill them made them stronger, except you break a lot in the process and if you get it wrong you break them all! BB needed somebody to reign him in, but instead we chose to avoid the hard discussion and let him hang himself and almost destroy the list.

But I feel things have changed under Voss, he's stopped the rinse and repeat cycle we've been on for almost two decades, we are actually seeing good football out of guys who most fans and I presume many at the club had written off!

Voss knows the key to success is the performance of those at the bottom of the list, not accolades for those at the top!

Whoa there, Spotted One. Let's not rewrite history, or compare oranges with cheese.

BB was tasked with stepping into the breach after a blow torch was taken to the list to begin probably one of the most ambitious rebuilds in AFL history. I don't believe his attitude was teach through adversity, but rather teach through a thorough education of the basics... then how to handle adversity and grow through it. Adversity was a given, given the inexperience of the list. For the first two years of his tenure, in particular, his ability to not only hold a club together but temper our expectations with reality and hope was first class.