Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Post Game Pain

[Lods]

I'm prepared to judge over a season. I'm prepared to give the club time....but what the club has achieved through the rebuild/reset  statements is that we have been conditioned to accept weekly results as unimportant.

I see that as a clever strategy.
What it's designed to do is buy time.

You see the club really has no idea if the rebuild will actually work.
They can put in plans, and it would appear that there has been considerable thought go into these.... but the success or failure of any rebuild is dependent on so many variable factors such as injury, sound selections, proper development, player satisfaction, team unity etc  that they can't guarantee things will work out as they hope.

The only indication that we're on the right track comes from on field performance....you can accept poor performance while we're in the early stages of building and uniting a team (like now) but we also need to see positive developments as we go along.

At the moment there's a lot of scrutiny on some older members of our list.
How will that play out as the pressure on these players increases and how will those "redundancies" be managed in a way that doesn't upset the apple-cart.

This rebuild isn't easy... and it's not guaranteed.