Thing with being average and changing the way you do things, it can also leave you further behind the rest as a resultSure, it's a risk, but doing the same thing over and over again,,............... well we know what that means!
Thing with being average and changing the way you do things, it can also leave you further behind the rest as a result
Since that terrible, unforgiveable slaughter by Hamas terrorists, the IDF has killed 70,000 Palestinians and thousands of children are starving and being denied basic human rights like education and healthcare. Is that being done on religious grounds or is it just acceptable collateral damage on the way to more land for Israeli settlers or Taco's 'Riviera of the Middle East'?
What pisses me off about our Government is that they won't push back against the corrupt war criminal Netanyahu, who is more responsible for the anti-Zionism that's sweeping the world than anyone else.
I don't think anyone would question the time and effort Kruddler puts into his analysis of list management and other discussion points. However, there's plenty to question about his methodology, assumptions and conclusions, and that's what helps make this place tick.
Again, I don't think anyone here would be unhappy if we were to draft the next Jonathan Brown, but there's a much greater chance that any club hoping for a Jonathan Brown will end up with a Jonathon Patton. Bringing in another Stephen Kernahan via trade or free agency would be far more likely to be successful.
The scuttlebutt is that we were interested in Louis Emmett but the Bulldogs snapped him up. Would the "draft a KPF" crew been happy with that? What about if the rest of the scuttlebutt is correct and he's going to be developed as a KPD?
What annoys me about the criticism of our list management team's work at the draft is not so much the bleating about not picking a KPF, no matter how banged up or unready for AFL he might have been. It's the downplaying of the fact that we snared the best KPP in the draft. All I read is 'he can't play on 200cm KPFs', 'we only got him because he's a father-son pick', 'he won't be ready for AFL', he's too short', 'he won't be as good as Jack', 'we've put all our eggs in one basket', 'we should have drafted a KPF instead of a KPD', why didn't we draft a State league KPP?', 'we could have taken [insert any delisted rookie KPP]' ...
Drafting Harry Dean (and Jack Ison) was a masterclass in NGA player development and astute list management. That is probably why both Fox and ESPN rate our work at the draft as equal third best ... but what would they know? And they're probably following an agenda.
And the October 7 slaughter of Jews by Palestinians? Let me guess, they didnt like the music at the Music Festival?
Most of the players from 2023 were SOS's
The bar isn't set low.
It's set unrealistically high by ignoring all that occurred with the club during the season just gone.
All any supporter can ask for is continued improvement each year.
But that path is rarely a straight line and there will be peaks and troughs which usually occur around the availability of players.
He gets a pass because we had injuries?
Its not the injuries that killed us, it was the lack of talent behind our starters that killed us.
Now who would be responsible for that?
Perhaps if we didn't have 13 small forwards on the list we could've coped with injuries better?
The lack of a balanced most was exposed by injuries and he still gets a free pass out of it?
Its all tied together.
The bar isn't set low.
It's set unrealistically high by ignoring all that occurred with the club during the season just gone.
All any supporter can ask for is continued improvement each year.
But that path is rarely a straight line and there will be peaks and troughs which usually occur around the availability of players.
Looking at those past finishes, Carlton has been in the dead zone. There are reasons and explanations but facts are facts. I am reasonably confident about how this year's trade and draft went, despite players we lost, but we should know pretty early whether we are going to be mediocre again this year.