Over the next few years we are going to lose Petrie, Spud, Thompson, Wells, Harvey, Dal and to a lesser extent Waite.
At the start of the year I said blokes like Basti, Atley, Black, Wood, McMillan, McDonald, Taz, Brown, Jacobs, Ziebell and Cunnington needed to really step up if we were going to go close to playing finals again. Pretty much all of them have stagnated or gone backwards. NONE! NOT ONE, has stepped up and really progressed. None of these blokes are A-graders and when we lose all the top mentioned players we are facing a serious drop towards the bottom of the ladder.
I personally think this year is a write off, we can't make top 4 and we are just going to fill in the numbers if we do make finals.
We need a proper re-build. Coaching staff needs to go, the first half of the year proved that the coach has lost the players completely. Our game plan is non existent and our forward structure is actually embarrassing.
Some big calls need to be made and they need to be made now. Otherwise we are facing another 5-10 years of mid finishing mediocrity.
At the start of the year I said blokes like Basti, Atley, Black, Wood, McMillan, McDonald, Taz, Brown, Jacobs, Ziebell and Cunnington needed to really step up if we were going to go close to playing finals again. Pretty much all of them have stagnated or gone backwards. NONE! NOT ONE, has stepped up and really progressed. None of these blokes are A-graders and when we lose all the top mentioned players we are facing a serious drop towards the bottom of the ladder.
I personally think this year is a write off, we can't make top 4 and we are just going to fill in the numbers if we do make finals.
We need a proper re-build. Coaching staff needs to go, the first half of the year proved that the coach has lost the players completely. Our game plan is non existent and our forward structure is actually embarrassing.
Some big calls need to be made and they need to be made now. Otherwise we are facing another 5-10 years of mid finishing mediocrity.