Devington
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 4, 2013
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- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
IMO our long term growth is 90% putting games into all the ripping youngsters we've recruited the last few years, then a handful (and i do mean just a handful) of the more senior lads who are either already at the level or still have some room for improvement. With that in mind we should be filling in gaps for the short and medium term around the kids we know are going to make it, with the idea being to get some bloody W's under their belts (I have a feeling that wins might be a wee bit more valuable to their futures than more losses...)Kind of sick of hearing about this long-term growth. And I'm starting to think that performing in the short term will be the best possible thing for our long-term growth.
13-92-1 since lockdown. Over that entire period we've gone on and on about long-term growth. Give me some goddamn short-term growth and I'll start believing that the club I love isn't in danger of dying in the arse
Unless theirs a 24 year old match winner on the market, then we should be drafting for the long term and trading for the short and medium. I've been all for the slowly slowly approach, but other than a ~2 month patch this year we were pretty ****ing woeful. There's reasons for that, but that doesn't mean our rebuild magically succeeds anyway.