05-15-2015, 07:26 AM
(05-15-2015, 06:46 AM)PassIt2Carrots link Wrote:You have failed to grasp the concept of a rebuild.
And any rebuild will be on shaky foundations if some basic principles have not been adhered to through the process. I get what Malthouse is attempting. He is trying to build a team on a set of basic principles that can be understood and therefore maintained by all in the team. It's just that it is hard to do.
The popular understanding of what is ostensively called a rebuild is flawed. Playing youngsters on the crieteria of being young, with potential and requiring experience is flawed if it is the primary basis for selection. When does it stop? And if it does, and a club then decides to suuddenly try and win games, it must change its criteria for selection.
Its a bit like hoping that we get experience in now and hope it works out. It is setting the right goal yet taking the wrong path. Set the goal and start conducting yourself as a team like you want to be now, not in some yet to be determined future time when things are deemed all right. Behaving like losers is a sure way to continue losing.
Malthouse is already building something. It's a selection process based on attempting to win games of football first and foremost I struggle to understand how anything less can be helpful in building something sustainable and successful.