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gubby88
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- Jul 31, 2022
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the biggest issue was "the road to 2018".So every rebuild that has been done the right way has been done by drafting in a bulk of your talent and then topping up to fill holes. There was no precedence for doing it the way we did it for good reason.
Of course we needed list repair because we'd blown the previous 2 rebuilds by doing dumb shit. At the point guys like Stuv, Roberton etc were leaving it was time to take our hit and stay down for a few seasons while we built a core through drafting.
List management isn't difficult or mystical. You need to know where you're at in the cycle and add talent to suit that point and set up for the future.
You're an accountant. It's like borrowing $200k for a new ute a year before you retire from you plumbing business otherwise. It's just stupidity to think that you can subvert the system and do it all backwards.
We were always trying to cheat the timeline and paying the price. Keeping a recruiter that was an absolute liability and having never addressed serious development staff helped cap off one of the club's worst administration periods since the AFL era.
they butchered it that hard, that if we did bottom out after 2020, the supporters would have cried for an absolute spill of red wedding proportions.
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