Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #135 – December 04, 2025, 06:54:48 pm Quote from: Lods – on December 04, 2025, 06:49:42 pmQuote from: kruddler – on December 04, 2025, 05:37:13 pmThere is a reason the spine is called a spine in football. Its important piece that everything is built around.We are rebuilding, but not with foundations. We are doing it with fluffy pillows, wallpaper and a change of curtains. The main structure is largely being ignored, and its only a matter of time until the cracks show through and the real issues can no longer be ignored.Why does it have to be built that way?Who made that rule?It may be 'traditional' list building but who is to say its the only waySOS built a spine but failed with the other bones the heart, muscleI'm sure Dean, O'Farrell, O'Keefe, Smith, Ison and others don't see themselves as fluffy pillowsI'm sure all the players we've ever delisted didnt seem themselves as fluffy pillows either.It doesn't have to be built that way, but its tried and true. SOS didn't fail, he was cut off before he got to finish.Austin has had longer and done less.Tell me what players SOS inherited that could net him 3x 1st round picks via trade. Hell, a former pick 1 only got us 2.Austin has been piggybacking off the back of the value SOS added and continues to do so.SOS didn't have anything of value when he took over.I'm sorry but whichever way i dissect the list, i can't find any confidence in the current regime, nothing close to what you guys seem to have in it. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #136 – December 04, 2025, 07:08:50 pm Look this is pretty pointless.You and I aren't going to agree.So I'll finish up here...I'm pretty sure SOS had signalled his intention to leave anyway and they brought his departure forward.He may not have had anything of value, but he still cut the guts out of the list and then put it back together with some average players from other clubs (many of whom he drafted) and some poor draft choices with early picks.He had a great first draft.Picked up Walsh, an easy choice for pick 1The one he does get a bit of credit for is TDK.But enough about SilvagniHe's no friend of Carlton.Bottom line here is you sound like you're going to have a pretty miserable summer fretting about all the ways we can drop further down the ladder.I on the other hand will be looking forward to the first practice games to see the "New Carlton" Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #137 – December 04, 2025, 07:45:39 pm I'm not fretting about anything. I've accepted next year will be worse than this year.I think all you others who expect to improve are the ones that will have miserable times.Reality check coming to many. Quote Selected
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #138 – December 04, 2025, 07:59:26 pm Quote from: Lods – on December 04, 2025, 07:08:50 pmLook this is pretty pointless.You and I aren't going to agree.So I'll finish up here...I'm pretty sure SOS had signalled his intention to leave anyway and they brought his departure forward.He may not have had anything of value, but he still cut the guts out of the list and then put it back together with some average players from other clubs (many of whom he drafted) and some poor draft choices with early picks.He had a great first draft.Picked up Walsh, an easy choice for pick 1The one he does get a bit of credit for is TDK.But enough about SilvagniHe's no friend of Carlton.Bottom line here is you sound like you're going to have a pretty miserable summer fretting about all the ways we can drop further down the ladder.I on the other hand will be looking forward to the first practice games to see the "New Carlton"x 2 Quote Selected
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #139 – December 04, 2025, 08:14:01 pm Looks like the Ass Stains should have done their homework on players they drafted. Oh wait... Quote Selected
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #140 – December 04, 2025, 08:44:55 pm Some people on this site regard KPP as less important than they have been, but a lot of them got targeted and sought after by clubs this year....Jamarra, JSOS, Charlie, the lad from Swines to Collingwood. Large % of the trades if you ask me. If they are so "unimportant", why did club go after them? Quote Selected 2 Likes
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #141 – Today at 02:55:26 am Quote from: Professer E – on December 04, 2025, 08:44:55 pmSome people on this site regard KPP as less important than they have been, but a lot of them got targeted and sought after by clubs this year....Jamarra, JSOS, Charlie, the lad from Swines to Collingwood. Large % of the trades if you ask me. If they are so "unimportant", why did club go after them?I don't think that anyone is arguing the KPPs are less important. The point is that there's less risk involved in bringing in established KPPs through trades and free agency than through the draft. Eight of the 50 players drafted are KPPs and eight of the 36 players traded or taken as free agents are KPPs. The same applies for ruckmen. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #142 – Today at 06:41:19 am That's the way I see thingsAnd it's probably 'it' in a nutshell and the centre of the whole debate.It goes to the heart of the thread title-"More than one way to skin a cat."Of course KPP's are important.They are the 'backbone' of any side.But as is generally agreed...they take time.We drafted a spine in one draft, talented kids, that still took several years to hit their peak.The problem was that when they did we were lacking in the supportive talent.There are two ways to do it. Draft the talls, and develop them, in the hope that when they reach their peak there is enough supportive talent around. Or lay a foundation of talent and then bring them in via trade and free agency, ready to go, or well on the way to reaching their full potential.The first one may be the more traditional way.I suspect the second option is the direction the club has taken.It's basically what were arguing about and I don't think anyone's going to change their mind before we see what happens on-field in the next year or two. Quote Selected
Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat Reply #143 – Today at 06:55:37 am The club may well be taking the second option Lods, problem is the trading of those players is all going one way.... and it's not in. Quote Selected