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Ask yourselves this - could you see the Hawks being dragged down by these types of situations ? Could you genuinely see these situations developing at the Swans ?

2004-2008 had numerous top picks. How was that not a rebuild?

But that's not the domain of Bolton, Paul.

That's club board dynamics and football boards are political entities.
Change at that level is subject to the whims of members and if members are behind a board they'll stay there.
If however discontent arises, often through continued lack of success, a board becomes vulnerable.
It's not something you can control.
While members are convinced of the direction the club has chosen you'll have stability...when someone pokes his/her head up and says they can do better that's when you'll have a focus for any discontent.
When you have division that's when your trouble will start.

Stability and success are the key components...if either is lacking then you have a problem.

To me, this is part of the problem, this attitude of "you look after your domain, and I'll like after mine." Every bit of the club has to work together, and all have to be working properly towards a common goal, with a common set of values. Bolton is not responsible for everything, but he is the change agent, and the prime mover behind setting values he's learned at the Hawks.

It's a domino thing. One bit of the club affects all the others in some small or significant way.

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I remember a time when that was Carlton...and I remember a time when the Swans were a basket case.

Traded out a total of 0 players for picks during that period.

And?

We didn't need more picks we had 3 straight number 1 selections.

We embraced the draft and it didn't work.

And ......................... it's not the same as this rebuild in that this time we have traded out players in our best 22.

You know when you post "we have been rebuilding for 10 years blah blah blah it's not the same.    We didn't trade out a 28 year old Camporeale.   Matty Lappin.   Even Houlihan and Whitnall when Melbourne came stiffing.  

We embraced the draft.   Yeap.  

We didn't have much to trade back then.  Remember when hawthorn were hunting Brett Thornton?  Should have traded him.

The impression I get from reading these recent posts is that it's a case of "let's get good players into the men's seniors, start winning games of footy, and the rest will look after itself." I don't think that's the beginning and end point for Bolton and Co.

In my view, a properly reset club would not have had the salary cap saga. A properly reset club would not have had a player revolt under Pagan, with the tail wagging the dog, or at least would have sorted it quickly and behind closed doors. A properly reset club would not have had the same recruiting team in place for far too long, despite delivering poor results. A properly reset club would not have had a situation under Ratten where the GM of Football (Icke) and Ratts had a sh1t relationship, ditto Ratts and Justin Cordy, both of which were allowed to fester when they should have been sorted out quickly. A properly reset club would not have had the Malthouse package deal / lazy rebuild, where you get Mick, plus Daisy, plus Buttifant etc. You do your due diligence and check each individual properly, not just because some senior person e.g the coach wants them.

Ask yourselves this - could you see the Hawks being dragged down by these types of situations ? Could you genuinely see these situations developing at the Swans ?

What has any of that got to do with Bolton and co?

I don't understand your post at all. To dredge up everything that went wrong in the last decade is pointless.

The point of the  reset is lo leave all that crap behind - surely?

Your post is Bolton is supposed to fix Malthouse and Ratten era issues?

How? You have some specific things that should have been done by now that haven't?