05-27-2023, 03:21 AM
(05-27-2023, 02:55 AM)Professer E link Wrote:Paul, given stats, every side should have about five years of good, five of bad and ten middling (heading up or down) every 29 years, given the life of a really good senior players is about 15 years. Some clubs eg Geelong, Cats have actually rebuilt numerous times in the last twenty years and defied gravity so to speak.
We haven't been better than middling for thirty years. That's a statistical outlier - you couldn't be as crap as we are, for as long as we have, without almost deliberately wanting to not get better..we're St Kilda 1970-2000.
No doubt our decline since 2001 has been precipitous. We certainly want to get better, no doubt about that. We've had a succession of people in that time, at every level of the organisation : board, CEO, Head of football, senior coach, assistant coaches, high performance, medical / rehab. Hundreds of players have been turned over in that time. And yet here we are. All those that have come and gone are supposedly professional, competent, committed. I certainly believe they are. Many have come from successful organisations, and have come in specifically because we want them to impart some of that successful culture to us. I'm quite convinced that a materialist / atomistic approach is not adequate to understand or solve the problems. I don't think you can, ahead of time, be fully cognisant that if you add this person plus this coach plus this player etc. you will achieve success. I'm certainly not suggesting anything supernatural, but there is some greater whole, beyond intentionality and hope, that gets created for successful clubs, probably by accident, within a given time period. It certainly involves good planning and good decisions, but something more IMO.