(05-23-2023, 03:33 AM)Macca37 date Wrote:Over the past few years our marketing department has done a magnificent job selling memberships based on unrealistic expectations.At the moment some of our best players are our worst ball users. Some of the role players fans like to whip are our best ball users.
A coach can only do so much with a list that has too many players lacking basic skills and grey matter.
Also, the combination of lack of player development and recruitment of players with known physical problems has delivered us a coach killing list.
It's a volatile and destructive mix, because to fix the problem quickly we basically have to self-harm, or we can climb out which is inherently slower!
Anyone who thinks our problems are at either end of the ground is a sucker for the media spin, you've got a bunch of AFL has-beens commentating who would all want Charlie, Harry or Weiters lining up at their own club without hesitation. The only way they can possibly have a chance for that to happen is to turn those players in pariahs at Carlton, devalue them, and based on the Carlton fan reaction they are doing so very very well.
If you put these media schmucks on the spot and ask them if they want those players at their club they all turn into church mice, it's a huge tell!
If fans want to give up drinking somebodies bathwater, they should give up the bathwater of the media norbits they have been listening to.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"