Carlton Supporters Club

See my point is that I want an explanation of what bridge everyone else seems to have been looking for.

There was no bridge.

We may not have got to the bridge yet. But to not bother looking for it, we are potentially doing ourselves an incredible injustice.

So you're saying instead of building a bridge we should see if someone has built one for us to use??

Let's face it, the club has decided that they're building a bridge and whilst they're doing the foundation work they are having a few issues. 

It might not be on time it might be expensive but they are intending to build a bridge a d don't seem worried about everyone who's telling them they are doing it wrong.

I'm fine with that but you can't knock the finished product when all your doing is looking at how they're building it.

So you're saying instead of building a bridge we should see if someone has built one for us to use??

Let's face it, the club has decided that they're building a bridge and whilst they're doing the foundation work they are having a few issues. 

It might not be on time it might be expensive but they are intending to build a bridge a d don't seem worried about everyone who's telling them they are doing it wrong.

I'm fine with that but you can't knock the finished product when all your doing is looking at how they're building it.

Yep
That was his conclusion.
That's his summary
That's his main point.

But all the points he makes have been made.. we're well aware of them and agree with many.

But what's he getting at here....

Where I have an issue with a piece like this is that it's patronising.
It tells us to just be patient and everything will be OK.
I'll bet "London to a brick" that if we're bottom 4 in 2020 we'll have a new board, a new coach and a new list manager in 2021...and there won't be many Carlton people complaining about that.

Their 2017 offseason was instructive. Carlton traded in a 21 year old Matthew Kennedy, 22 year old Darcy Lang, and used free agency and the lesser drafts to backfill depth spots with Aaron Mullett, Cam O’Shea and Matt Shaw.

Now of those players... none are guaranteed to be long term players for us.
It's a strategy, but it could just as easily be a strategy that sucks big time.

See my point is that I want an explanation of what bridge everyone else seems to have been looking for.

There was no bridge.

I don't find it patronising at all telling us to be patient, back the process and don't fall into all the rubbish that the rebuild has been a failure and it's time to throw the baby out with the bath water after 18 months.

You want to see development first, results 2nd.  

You want to see development first, results 2nd.

Fair enough, but whats the time frame?....this the real world not SimCity, members are like shareholders and expect a return within a reasonable period of time.
Its now the 3rd year and we have bottomed out again, is it so unreasonable for supporters/members to question the process when we have gone backwards and been uncompetitive for most of the season?
Or are our results reasonable and some other teams who were strugglers have just improved more than us ie North, Collingwood etc?

Perhaps the members are unrealistic.

Guarantee you some members are unrealistic. Wouldn't be a single player on the list that every member supports universally.

How much weight should be put into what the members think though?
Does the club know best?

When you ask "does the club know best ?" ...............in relation to whom ? In relation to supporters, even a club coming dead last has staff who know more about football than any supporter. I guess the problem arises when said staff may not know as much as staff from teams coming first.

I reckon Charlie Curnow would have universal Navy Blue love, or at least 99%. Only the technically insane would poo poo CC.

You want to see development first, results 2nd.

Fair enough, but whats the time frame?....this the real world not SimCity, members are like shareholders and expect a return within a reasonable period of time.
Its now the 3rd year and we have bottomed out again, is it so unreasonable for supporters/members to question the process when we have gone backwards and been uncompetitive for most of the season?
Or are our results reasonable and some other teams who were strugglers have just improved more than us ie North, Collingwood etc?