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ant555
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- May 4, 2004
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You need to start thinking long term. You know we lack genuine elite players. You know we do not have quality KPF or small forwards.The hope is what drives me insane. Win a few games, look like things are changing and then same old Essendon in new financial year every year pains me.
You just knew we were going to lose on the weekend but still pains me when you know we should be beating such an inept Suns team at our home ground. We are just more inept.
The fact we brought in Goldstein (should retire), Gresham, McKay, Duursma and are no better or worst says that the list is just the same old same old.
Maybe your last paragraph is right but in saying that, I can’t see to much changing from the list perspective
Yes we got 4 guys in but they were never about jumping up to top 4 .
Goldstein was simply Draper cover . McKay to fill FB which we needed. Gresham would have been a 30 goal forward if we played him forward all year and Duursma was a win . We needed an endurance runner .
You want Dodoro gone which is fair but then you go off tap when we are still ordinary and nothing changes .
You seem to have a handle on why we ended up here but refuse to accept that it will take anything from 3 to 10 years to change even if they do make 70% odd of the list decisions right .
It is basically the end of year one for most of the off field changes .
You do not build something new from 15 years of under performing in 2 years.
The list will need time to change and they will not get it all right along the way .