11-27-2016, 10:33 AM
Based on what we saw from our club last year, you cant be anything other than optomistic about our future.
Im 45. I've never been so optimistic about our club for as long as I can remember. .....95 was so long ago !
I bought my 1st membership when we were brought to our knees by the salary cap scandal. Cost me a fortune (reserved seat) that I really couldnt afford at the time, but I wanted to help get my club back up to the top again.
Its been a bloody long time...... a lot of quick fix mentality that at the time gave me (false) optimism.... from hiring Pagan , to hiring Malthouse and all else in between.
Its taken way too bloody long, but we finally seem to have embraced the trade and draft system. We have a board who finally.......... have members on it that are not in the news every couple of weeks :
. We have a coach who is a great teacher of young men and one who has a solid, structured game plan . A coach and club for that matter, who are very transparant in there direction.
Even thou we lost to Rich in rd 1, I remember smiling and almost giggling nervously with excitement , at the fact we were finally playing proper football. Through the year, I've watched 3 instalments of "the journey" which gives me a little glimpse of the direction and thought processes of the coaching group and players.
This is what gives me optimism for our future.
Improving our list slowly but surely with hard work and persistance, and without quick fixes.
I dont expect a great improvement in ladder position this year but I do expect the gap from our better performances to our worst to be a lot narrower. I expect to see more sprouts of our future through the course of the year BUT will be mightily dissapointed if we let any team , blow us away by 10 goals or more.
Ps... Im still so pissed off that we lost to Ess in the last rd last yr.......it still burns.
That nearly had me losing my faith !!
Im 45. I've never been so optimistic about our club for as long as I can remember. .....95 was so long ago !
I bought my 1st membership when we were brought to our knees by the salary cap scandal. Cost me a fortune (reserved seat) that I really couldnt afford at the time, but I wanted to help get my club back up to the top again.
Its been a bloody long time...... a lot of quick fix mentality that at the time gave me (false) optimism.... from hiring Pagan , to hiring Malthouse and all else in between.
Its taken way too bloody long, but we finally seem to have embraced the trade and draft system. We have a board who finally.......... have members on it that are not in the news every couple of weeks :
. We have a coach who is a great teacher of young men and one who has a solid, structured game plan . A coach and club for that matter, who are very transparant in there direction.Even thou we lost to Rich in rd 1, I remember smiling and almost giggling nervously with excitement , at the fact we were finally playing proper football. Through the year, I've watched 3 instalments of "the journey" which gives me a little glimpse of the direction and thought processes of the coaching group and players.
This is what gives me optimism for our future.
Improving our list slowly but surely with hard work and persistance, and without quick fixes.
I dont expect a great improvement in ladder position this year but I do expect the gap from our better performances to our worst to be a lot narrower. I expect to see more sprouts of our future through the course of the year BUT will be mightily dissapointed if we let any team , blow us away by 10 goals or more.
Ps... Im still so pissed off that we lost to Ess in the last rd last yr.......it still burns.
That nearly had me losing my faith !!
Too little and Way too late. Pull your fingers out boys!!