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Opinion Our Current Rebuild Will Ultimately Fail - Prove Me Wrong
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I dont think there is a single poster on here that believes we are a realistic premiership chance for the next few years. That will take us close to the 2030s.
If you do believe we are a chance, show yourself and post now, dont wait for hindsight.
The only caveat I will add is that only changes if by some miracle we get a couple of elite established mids that leave their current Club. Given how rare that is, that is wanting to leave their Club and come to play for the Crows. This current rebuild will have been a complete failure and waste of our time.
If you do believe we are a chance, show yourself and post now, dont wait for hindsight.
The only caveat I will add is that only changes if by some miracle we get a couple of elite established mids that leave their current Club. Given how rare that is, that is wanting to leave their Club and come to play for the Crows. This current rebuild will have been a complete failure and waste of our time.
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We were very proud of picks we collected. As though thatās all there is to it.
jenny61_99
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Honestly? I think football is a fickle bloody business. Played as much above the shoulders as it is below. And to me, our one major weakness (other than the whole forgetting to recruit a big body A grade midfielder) is our mental approach to how we football. The events of 2015 and then the aftermath of 2017 (and the fallout from THAT bloody camp) destroyed every single one of the players mental mindset... and while there's only a few of them left - they ARE still the leaders of the Club, and that "vibe" still lives within the walls. I do often wonder if we won't ever really move beyond that until every last one of them has gone...
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Our major weakness is Nicks
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Two events that were 7 and 9 years ago, and have no impact on 95% of our squad or coaching staff.
jenny61_99
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Maybe... but I'm not convinced that's our only issue at play here.
If we are able to grab a mid in this yearās draft that can look A-grade by year 3, and are somehow able to grab another genuine elite talent like NWM within the next three offseasons, Iād say we could contend by 2027 at the earliest. I still have faith in the development of guys like Rash/Soli/RT/Max/Dowling and our three draftees this year, plus Dawson/Rankine/Murray/Fog/Worrell should still be playing good footy
Not counting on anything above 7th or 8th before that, though, especially if our coaching panel continues to be very conservative
- Feb 8, 2013
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Nah it's the list. Even if you were to apply a bullish level of improvement to our younger players it's not a list that stacks up to other premiership teams.
Essendon kept firing coaches while still retaining Dodoro and the results were... predictable.
Bobby Fisher isn't winning shit if his chess pieces are all pawns.
Our list is far better than what we are producing
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If you want a sugar hit, fire the coach and don't fix the other underlying problems.
Do you want to make finals and put the cue in the rack or do you want to win a flag?
Coach first
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I think most would rate last season as us exceeding expectations and at worst meeting them. Now you're going to bail on a coach 3 games in?
If you want to judge coaches on a short terms basis then they will make decisions on a short term basis.
Get him out sick of watching talent go to waste
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So whatās everyoneās thoughts on how the rebuild is going?
Hawks have gone past usā¦..
Hawks have gone past usā¦..
At a rapid rate of knots. Players have lost faith in the coach.
Once you start blaming the players, you're done.
Defense has gone forward and will be further strengthen with Murray, midfield has gone forward but still missing a burst powerful midfielder (we need Pedlar to step up), forward line has gone backward (we need Fogarty and Thilthorpe to step up and Welsh to develop into a top 10 pick post Walker) and ruck is stagnate with ROB and no promising young ruckman.
There appeared to be a lot of aggression amongst players today donāt appear to be a happy mob
It unravels when the coaches have no idea. Players start taking frustration out on each other.
Frustrations are appearing
ultimately a rebuild is only as good as the person / people in charge. Sadly, we have chosen poorly at all levels.
Disagree, I think the next senior coach has something to work with given the extent of the rebuild Nicks had to do during a global pandemic. He can actually coached, the problem is he has proven to be very stubborn in his thinking and hasn't changed, hence he continue to make the same obvious mistake over and over again so there's no way he will change in his thinking.
