Carlton pasted by Pies (Post Game)

[Professer E]

I think that all parties at the club are at fault and are the cause of our predicament.  All need to take a bloody hard look at themselves and all need to start pulling on the same rope... a rope connected to the concept that this club needs to rebuild everything form the ground up.

1.  The players.  Well we have the list we have because our list management, recruiting and development are back in the 1960's, so any improvement in those areas will translate directly into better onfield results.  However, the players themselves have to share the burden because of a variable and sporadic work rate, which everybody agrees has been a significant issue for far too long.  Too many blokes have, as Mr Judd succinctly put in this morning, been satisfied with just getting a game and have not been 100% committed to winning at all costs...  "paying the price" as he put it.
2.  Selection.  Too frequently we make mystifying and unjustifiable selections and don't put a side on the park that gives us a chance of winning - too many games are lost on Thursday night.  Too frequently we don't pick balanced sides, or sides with gaping deficiencies that the opposition exploit.  We do not appear to do our homework on the opposition e.g. tagging DeLedio is the first thing 16 other clubs do against Richmond.
3.  Coaching.  Includes development, instruction and game plan IMO.  Slow ball movement is death in football, and the good sides own the corridor... or you employ a defensive gameplan based upon team defence and manic defensive pressure.  We do neither... yet play everybody behind the ball and seem to rely upon slow ball movement outside the corridor with inside 50 invariably a bomb to a key forward.  Why Mick continues with this plan, which clearly doesn't work, is bewildering.

So quite frankly;
1.  recruiting and development must improve (not really possible until EOS).
2. The wheat needs to be sorted from the chaff re the playing list - either you're in and committed or you can leave.  That said, we must commit to players that buy in.
3.  I'm happy for Mick to continue but on the condition that he starts rebuilding the list and starts developing a realistic gameplan suited to modern football, not 1985.  Wins are immaterial right now - its how (and who) they play between now and the end of the year that should dictate Mick's future.  And this should be communicated to all parties.