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All credit to Geelong, goes to show if you have the right people in the right positions (coaching, recruiting etc) and stability in the organisation, you are probably ahead of like 75% of the rest of the competition at any one time.c
Even if you make the argument of downplaying the opposition (Port choking), you can't deny how much confidence it would give the Geelong group having now made a prelim with a significantly different team from the 2022 flag.
I'm confident Tigers will come good, it's just we are going in a vastly different path with so many unproven people (coach and players). We don't know if Yze can coach yet. In theory, with the right people around him, with a full list to choose from and without the Gold Coast offer looming, Dimma could well have kept us thereabouts for a few more years. Dimma talked about doing a "Rebuild on the run" but he could his words twisted like Biden and what he meant to say was "Run from a rebuild."
We have our rookie coach, even with a full injury list, who is to say he would have been able to do significantly better? Is he a master tactician? NFI.
It's critical that this draft to us is what 2001 was to Geelong. Bartel, Kelly, Johnson, Ablett, Playfair is who they took and some are immortals of the club. If we are going to successful rebuild, we have to nail these picks, won't get another opportunity like this.
1999 - Joel Corey, Paul Chapman, Cameron Ling, Corey Enright.
Hawthorn - 2001 - Luke Hodge, Campbell Brown, Sam Mitchell and 2004 - Jarryd Roughead, Lance Franklin, Jordan Lewis, Clinton Young
You need to nail a couple.