Re: Re: Goaltracker 2018
Reply #415 –
The point of difference is that we've gone a "stripping back and youth" approach as opposed to what we've done in the past
We're arguing with this approach we'll be back playing finals in a couple of years after 5-6 years out of the eight....and hopefully seeing a sustained period of success.
I'd suggest there is a good chance we'd be there anyway through the natural rotation of clubs...without the pain
After all we did 'rebuild' it in an entirely different way in the period 2002 to 2009 and stayed in the finals for 4 out of the next 5 years despite an absolute off-field turmoil.
If many of the things IOT mentioned had gone right instead of wrong in the years following we might still be there, and even progressing....but we've had disasters with coaches, injuries to key personnel, loss of players and lack of development.
My issue has always been with this 'absolute certainty' that things will work out through the current 'different' approach.
We don't know that.
We can hope.
...and we should also be free to comment about aspects of the rebuild that concerns us.
Absolutely, and I support that 100%.
The thing is, I wasn't bullish in what we did at the time, it seemed "ok". I actually like the way we are going about things, even if it doesnt work, and if we had our time over again, probably wouldnt do anything differently.
I am a bit dissapointed in this season thus far, but I personally think that it wasn't likely to be much better had things gone well, AND, I also think that a lot has gone wrong this season.
The future for me is a fairly certain, uncertainty is the best way to describe it. For the first time since David Parkin left us, there has been a real focus on what we do, and how we do it, and we have also been fairly considered regarding what we have done. that is not true of any of what we have done. I think perhaps we should move this conversation to the reset thread, where it pretty much has come back to discussing effectively.