Spot on - clearly you need some top end talent but there's no need to be bottoming out.
Getting the picks is only one part of the equation anyway - Port have used their picks well, but as you say - Carlton and Melb have not.
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Getting the picks is only one part of the equation anyway - Port have used their picks well, but as you say - Carlton and Melb have not.
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Sydney are a poor example given their zone allowance and COLA. I can't think of one team who won a premiership without either bottoming out for a few years OR cola/zone concessions OR father/sons.
That's a very narrow view of the benefits of effective marketing of the club. Wouldn't it be better to have:
- 90,000 people clamoring to be members of the club.
- the majority of youngsters picking the Crows as their AFL team to support thus ensuring long term growth.
- CEOs of potential sponsor companies looking at the Crows as the club that is moving forward and being the best investment.
- all those people who can't get membership jumping on board by buying merchandise, talking up the Crows in the media, making it hard for the traditional media to ignore us.
- us generating national exposure.
- us generating growth nationally.
Sure, winning games is the first priority but even then, effective marketing leverages the benefits many fold. To say the benefits of marketing is just confined to filling AO is just rubbish.
- 90,000 people clamoring to be members of the club.
- the majority of youngsters picking the Crows as their AFL team to support thus ensuring long term growth.
- CEOs of potential sponsor companies looking at the Crows as the club that is moving forward and being the best investment.
- all those people who can't get membership jumping on board by buying merchandise, talking up the Crows in the media, making it hard for the traditional media to ignore us.
- us generating national exposure.
- us generating growth nationally.
Sure, winning games is the first priority but even then, effective marketing leverages the benefits many fold. To say the benefits of marketing is just confined to filling AO is just rubbish.
There was a stat on Footy Classified last night showing that the last of the last 4 Premiers, Hawthorn, Collingwood and Geelong all had 12 first rounders in their team. Sydney only had 6. Frighteningly GWS now have 22.
Geelong never bottomed out - they did have the benefit of some father son selections -
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Tex should lay off the tweets.
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So why did the Crows go hard to get Burgess then?
I wasn't criticising Burgess. I was lampooning the quoted post. The flog was making it sound like you won the Premiership last year.
You need to read the context to understand the post before flailing your arms around. Now back to your back slapping Muntz.
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Yes it is all Burgess and Hinkley. Nothing to do with the stacks of early first round picks in their team....
Burgess and Hinkley are doing their part. Handout helped fund this though. But they still haven't made enough money long term to sustain the spending they need to consolidate success. Winning helps. But they forget that there are 17 other teams that have something to say.
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And you don't know what a capital letter or a proper noun is.
Those early picks were playing when we were shit too
You also had coaching sessions over Skype, and your coach was friends with current players. That situation was never going to work.
Any real coach with a real fitness regime would have helped you guys no end. You guys were too focussed on 1870, OneClub and numerous other crises, like Ricci, to see that the situation was untenable.
Just like us in 2010, 2011. Coach lost his way, injuries, expansion clubs and lost focus on what we were working for. Etc. Etc.
But that's the difference between your fan base and ours. If we scrape into the 8 we call it mediocrity if you scrape into the 8, Tredders jizzes all over the channel 9 set on footy classified.
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Is there an example of that?
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What DID Caro say?
Beware the March Champions syndrome Poower.
As someone said above there was some interesting stats on Footy Classified last night showing number of first round picks in the last 4 flag teams. Most had 12, Sydney only the 6.
Another interesting stat boys and girls was that 16 of the Freo players on the weekend were rookie listers, or pick 53 or deeper. So maybe first rounders and COLA aren't the be all.
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You guys would have 12 or 13 1st round picks with 6-7 of those top 7 picks.
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Yeah but they have Ross Lyon the best coach in the competition.
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I'm amazed with how many top 10 picks GWS have, a staggering 16.
I think we have 12, Hartlett, Wingard, Wines, Polec, Boak, Butcher, Moore, Pittard, Ebert, Lobbe, Monfries, Schulz. 3 have been traded in. 2 were compo for Burgoyne.
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By my count we have 7
Smith
Talia
Lynch
Dangerfield
Douglas
Reilly
Thompson
Smith
Talia
Lynch
Dangerfield
Douglas
Reilly
Thompson
Not a great tweet from Tex, that one.
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