It's a fine line.
If you bounce back to quickly, without the list development, you can end up improving but not enough to get the choccies.
It's my own belief that Collingwood have not been worried about falling away after halfway through the season.
They get the benefits of membership buying the dream early till the middle of the year but they also get flexibility with some good draft position. Combine that with some slick trading and they get a strong list.
I'm not 100% sure it's deliberate, but I don't reckon they are upset about all those losses.
If you bounce back to quickly, without the list development, you can end up improving but not enough to get the choccies.
It's my own belief that Collingwood have not been worried about falling away after halfway through the season.
They get the benefits of membership buying the dream early till the middle of the year but they also get flexibility with some good draft position. Combine that with some slick trading and they get a strong list.
I'm not 100% sure it's deliberate, but I don't reckon they are upset about all those losses.
You can fool some of the people some of the time.......................................