12-15-2015, 01:19 PM
I'm the opposite.
If we're looking at 17-18 it means we're looking at a similar season to this year.
Yet we won't have the coaching debacle and uncertainty that plagued our first half of the year.
We won't have board and admin pushing the rebuild message after round two and sucking the life out of the place.
We won't have the half-hearted performances of some senior players that must have affected the players around them.
They're gone...and hopefully so has any division in the playing ranks.
We (hopefully) won't be playing the last half of the year with an eye to draft Pick 1.
Bolton will want to establish his credentials...he'll be looking for development... but he'll also be looking for as many wins as possible.
We're all pretty much aware that for the long term development it wouldn't hurt to have another low finish next year.
The problem with that is that if we do finish 17th or 18th you won't see a noticeable improvement in the team, their attitude or their play.
It just doesn't work that way.
We'll look very average.
...and as much as people declare that they're prepared to be patient, a 17th or 18th position will have one or more of the board, admin, coach and recruiting personnel under pressure.
If we're looking at 17-18 it means we're looking at a similar season to this year.
Yet we won't have the coaching debacle and uncertainty that plagued our first half of the year.
We won't have board and admin pushing the rebuild message after round two and sucking the life out of the place.
We won't have the half-hearted performances of some senior players that must have affected the players around them.
They're gone...and hopefully so has any division in the playing ranks.
We (hopefully) won't be playing the last half of the year with an eye to draft Pick 1.
Bolton will want to establish his credentials...he'll be looking for development... but he'll also be looking for as many wins as possible.
We're all pretty much aware that for the long term development it wouldn't hurt to have another low finish next year.
The problem with that is that if we do finish 17th or 18th you won't see a noticeable improvement in the team, their attitude or their play.
It just doesn't work that way.
We'll look very average.
...and as much as people declare that they're prepared to be patient, a 17th or 18th position will have one or more of the board, admin, coach and recruiting personnel under pressure.