Sliding doors, what if we won in 2018, and kept Buckley and the same FD? Where would we be now?

[Black_White]

What if we won every grand final ever, then what?

Then Carltoon would have suicided……

 

[Run n Spread]

Hard to say. The foundations of the list are the same. Fly was hired for a rebuild but junked that after a string of wins half way through 22 and haven't looked back.
Game plan has changed a hell of a lot.
Became a clutch side under macrae where we did lose some close ones under Bucks. And the difference in ladder positions these last 3 years between 2 wins vs losses is massive. So I'll say lower end of finals not top 4 under Bucks

 

[manicpie]

If Buckley had stayed we would never have seen the fast, dynamic football that even opposition followers were happy to watch.
Buckley did give us the basis of players that went on to a premiership though. He just wasn’t able to get them to the next level unfortunately.
While I wish we had 2018 and 2023 was 17 not 16, I always struggled to enjoy watching the game under Bucks.
I absolutely love the never say die, never worry about repercussions, style that Fly has bought to us.

I agree. We would be playing St.kilda style football today and we can see that it just doesn't stack up today