09-07-2024, 11:06 PM
After the last 6 weeks of the season, we had little reason to believe we could win a final. In all honestly, we barely deserved to be there.
What I do know is that, as per Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We talk about 'rolling the dice'. all we did as go back to the same old same old, only this time more underdone.
So there has to be some significant change or the window will close even faster than it already is.
Fact is, our system just does not develop players the way it should, so our young ones coming in are not prepared for senior footy. Hence, we keep picking the same old names (even if they are carrying injuries) and wonder why yet another season has gone down the gurgler.
We need a match committee that is prepared to try something different, and a reserves structure that gets the young ones ready.
I watch the Hawthorn youngsters running around and their success stems from the fact that they were backed in by their coaching staff even when they were 0-5 at the start of the year, and they are now rolling on youthful enthusiasm. We give our young ones 1 or 2 games, then drop them.
Moir, Lord certainly deserved to be playing last night, and Cincotta being dropped was abysmal . I can think of 6 or 7 players who got a game last night who let the jumper down in a huge way.
When you lose an elimination final by the 10-minute mark of the second quarter, big changes are needed.
What I do know is that, as per Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We talk about 'rolling the dice'. all we did as go back to the same old same old, only this time more underdone.
So there has to be some significant change or the window will close even faster than it already is.
Fact is, our system just does not develop players the way it should, so our young ones coming in are not prepared for senior footy. Hence, we keep picking the same old names (even if they are carrying injuries) and wonder why yet another season has gone down the gurgler.
We need a match committee that is prepared to try something different, and a reserves structure that gets the young ones ready.
I watch the Hawthorn youngsters running around and their success stems from the fact that they were backed in by their coaching staff even when they were 0-5 at the start of the year, and they are now rolling on youthful enthusiasm. We give our young ones 1 or 2 games, then drop them.
Moir, Lord certainly deserved to be playing last night, and Cincotta being dropped was abysmal . I can think of 6 or 7 players who got a game last night who let the jumper down in a huge way.
When you lose an elimination final by the 10-minute mark of the second quarter, big changes are needed.
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?