What does our club stand for?

[kruddler]

@ Kruddler

The simple difference between the good old days of Sellers and The Dominator is that then the guys were semi-professionals. Now of course they are full-time professional athletes. There's a big difference in the approach with a lot more expectation on players to do all the right things by their employers and customers - in summary they must provide full value and be seen to be doing all the right things. It was very different back then when as long as you pulled a rabbit out of the hat on match day, many other things off field could be forgiven.

I don't buy that.

Why can Hawthorn do today what we were able to do then? Are Hawthorn not full time professional athletes? I think they are.

The crux of the problem at our club is we don't know how to achieve success in the modern era. Off-field and on. A cultural change is required to drag us into the modern era in all facets of the game.

In terms of the players, that is something that they can control themselves. They can demand commitment from each other. They set their own team rules (to an extent) and they can enforce them. They can punish themselves should they transgress. If the players are not on board to begin with, what hope do we have?

Team rules can be made, followed and enforced no matter what era you come from. The rules may change, but the meaning behind them remains the same.