09-14-2015, 11:58 AM
We've somehow built up a losing culture that you can probably trace back to the Pagan days. We've never been able to heal those mental scars. We seem to have recruited 100% introverts with very little personality/spirit/spine/etc.
We have frustratingly lost our entire forward line for little return but the way MM was looking at it he's consciously cleared out a bunch of players that were never going to win us a premiership.
It hasn't worked the way he envisaged but he didn't have the recruiting department behind him at Carlton that he had at Collingwood and WC.
We butchered our draft picks so while Mick was busy clearing out the mid-tier experienced players at the top end - the back-fill for that was Watson, McCarthy, Mitchell, Lucas, Bootsma, Temay, etc.
We've also got a bunch of players from other clubs that we paid overs to get who aren't world beaters and suck up most of our salary cap. Warnock, Jones, Henderson, Tutt, Everitt, Thomas, etc.
Our core problem going back many years has always been recruiting and list management. We currently do not have recruitment manager. We appointed SOS as list manager but his role seems to have morphed into recruiting also. Seems very odd.
We have frustratingly lost our entire forward line for little return but the way MM was looking at it he's consciously cleared out a bunch of players that were never going to win us a premiership.
It hasn't worked the way he envisaged but he didn't have the recruiting department behind him at Carlton that he had at Collingwood and WC.
We butchered our draft picks so while Mick was busy clearing out the mid-tier experienced players at the top end - the back-fill for that was Watson, McCarthy, Mitchell, Lucas, Bootsma, Temay, etc.
We've also got a bunch of players from other clubs that we paid overs to get who aren't world beaters and suck up most of our salary cap. Warnock, Jones, Henderson, Tutt, Everitt, Thomas, etc.
Our core problem going back many years has always been recruiting and list management. We currently do not have recruitment manager. We appointed SOS as list manager but his role seems to have morphed into recruiting also. Seems very odd.