Re: Pre-Game Potential: AFL 2019 Rd 8: Carlton vs. Collingwood
Reply #86 –
Agree EB. Problem is presenting the club as an appealing destination for free agents. We had that problem when Malthouse was coach and never seemed to be able to land one. We got Thomas at a time when he was buggered with injury and it cost us a compensation pick for Betts. To his credit, Thomas has been pretty handy in the last few years but not a patch on what the club would've been anticipating when they got him. For the most part, free agents from clubs who haven't won flags or tasted finals success will go to those clubs...not ones anchored on or near the bottom...unless they're driven purely by $$$.
And there you have it.
I would hate to be SOS if, coming into this trade period, we're about where we are now. Our successes of the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s are now irrelevant. We're not a destination side.
How things have changed for SOS.
Who here would like to sell us to a Coniglio or Tomlinson or similar? What would you say to them to make them choose us over just about any other side?
(I hate being what seems to be a voice of doom... but, if you're objective and impartial, we're a flop and have been since 2002 bar 2010/11).