AFL Rd 8 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane

[Thryleon]

I guess you can call it whatever you like
Rebuild 1.1, Rebuild 2.0
But to me it's the same unfinished job.
I never wanted us to go down that path anyway.
And as far as I'm concerned it's still the same 'project' that was first dreamed up in 2014 and declared in 2015.
It's not a new rebuild until you finish the old one.

Over eight or nine years you will get a significant change of personnel
In our case we've had significant changes in just a few years.
That's a large part of the problem.
The players are playing with different teammates each year and no line is really settled.

But it's not a new start.
It's a 'tinkering' that occurs each year with the draft and trade period.
Because the core group is there, in place.

A rebuild is an ongoing process until you achieve the desired success.
Silvagni said as much when he took on the job.
He wasn't looking to build a side that just made the eight.
He was building a side for 'sustained' success.
Now we can argue the merits of Silvagni's successful and not so successful choices
Even SOS will admit he probably cut too deeply.
But his goal was right.
...and it's an ongoing process, and it's not over till we reach the goal....and we ain't there yet.

The fact that the original architects are no longer around doesn't mean a thing.
That lets them off the hook.
And they should be held accountable for the length of time it's taken.
We took a decision to cut our list back and reconstuct it and until we're playing deep into finals on a regular basis that task is incomplete.

Not to me.  Are st. Kilda still rebuilding for 60 years?

Nope.  You can simply point to an inflection point where they said that's enough of that, and had to "start again".  In the process your newbies become the key players and then new newbies come in to transform it all.

Sos rebuilding started with weitering, McKay, jsos, cunners, and curnow.  These players have now come of age and are complementing our previous rebuild players of docherty and cripps.  You look through the team there is very little else remaining and aside from adding walsh, and then you change the list manager, coach, football boss, CEO etc, go out and recruit a bunch of new players and start ditching a lot of the sos rebuild players, that's where you have started to pull it down using the old rebuild as foundations for a new one.

Thats where I'm at in terms of where our team is.  The inflection point was sack Bolton, teague was to continue that project.  Voss arrival signalled the start of a new project.