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Remember smashing the Pies in Round 3 and being Premiership Favourites the next year..

Remember smashing the Pies in Round 3 and being Premiership Favourites the next year..

Not bad for a side that peaked the previous year.

Remember smashing the Pies in Round 3 and being Premiership Favourites the next year..

We didn't peak for very long.   It was a slow rise from being crap to playing finals.  Once we got there, we dropped off pretty quickly.

Why have we gotten worse relative to the rest of the comp though? Our group still had improvement in it, age wise. The 2013 team was supposedly entering its premiership window.

Geelong, Collingwood and West Coast have got worse as well.

Why have we gotten worse relative to the rest of the comp though? Our group still had improvement in it, age wise. The 2013 team was supposedly entering its premiership window.

If we had the age profile of our 2001 side, fine but our list should still be on the up. So how did we get jumped?

Some may even argue we were yet to peak and that's just an excuse used by the propagandists.

But they were all old sides. You should actually read the post properly.

What does age have to do with it? A prime Chris Judd carried the team back then and unfortunately none of the young guns from then have come close to filling his shoes.

It's a player development problem, we've had kids who have stagnated but we can't keep blaming the kids because virtually none have reached their "potential"

We seem to have a club/coaching issue that has pervaded several senior coaches and administrations.

Yep, its called making coaches coach in self preservation mode the entire time they are here.

Sets them up to ignore nurturing young talent at the expense of a few wins in order to create a better learning environment.

Have a look at the fallout of having Smith as the sub.  If you listen to the common opinion, it should have been any one of 5 other players, all of which have played more than a season worth of senior footy rather than 1 debutant.