You need to bottom out to rebuild.
It’s clear this club will never willingly do that, which means we are a loooooong way off winning another Premiership, or even making top 4.
We’re not gonna have a quality list until we start getting into the top end of the draft.
You can delist as many list cloggers as you like, but that doesn’t mean top end talent is coming back in to replace them.
The bottom out method is not a viable option for clubs any more with how compromised the draft is with NGA’s,F/S and bidding.
Maybe 10-15 years ago but not now
It’s not a rebuild without bottoming out.
If the draft was open with no ngas and f/s diluding them,then clubs would be more open to bottoming out imo.
Pretty big to have a public admission by the CEO that they only view Zach as their only elite player. Not that it’s untrue, but it shows where the club rates the list
Say the line
Say it!
Didn’t he say ‘Zach and a few of the other boys’?
I mean it’s not a glowing endorsement isn’t it!
“We need to support Zach… and umm… you know… the other guys”
We could end up like Gorth!
Well actually, it did say that the draft was the focus in the last 2 years, and they have previously said the draft will be the focus in the 3 year plan, which they are 1 year in to I believe.
But it being the focus does not mean, they aren’t also looking at other opportunities, which they will.
I don’t think that’s the case now Ant, whatever may have been said at the start of the year.
I don’t know where this perception that you have to completely bottom out comes from. Geelong haven’t had a top 5 draft pick since 1990. Plenty of the league’s best players didn’t go in the top 3 of the draft.
Yes, top end draft picks offer a greater likelihood of finding elite players, but recent premiership sides show that effective trading, finding players in all parts of the draft, and a bit of luck with NGAs / Father Sons are a bigger part of the puzzle.
Not to mention, throwing in our chips now when we’re on the brink of enormously compromised drafts makes little sense. We have some nice pieces on our list, we need more elite talent, but we have draft picks this year that can help us trade for elite prospects or move up the draft order, while we also have cash for free agents. Who knows if we can get there, but the notion that some extreme rebuild will get us there is no less naive.
We haven’t had the best list manager in the league for over 2 decades…… Geelong has.
The amount of clubs who have bounced between 12th & 8th for 20 years, and built a Premiership list doing so……… is a grand total of 0.
It’s time for a new strategy. Bottom out, is the answer.
10-15 years ago was 2010-2015, featuring some of the most compromised drafts in history.
I also laugh at the “oh it’s not the thing to do now, because the top clubs didn’t bottom out”.
Wait, how long did Brisbane sit at the bottom of the ladder?
Cal mentioned us being a good choice for Liam Ryan this morning on Gettable. Absolutely not! He’s got to be older than 28.
And also thought we should combine 4 and 10 for a superstar because the draft isn’t terrific. They’ve mentioned that many possible top 10 pics, we can surely get 2 good to very good players.
I haven’t heard of any potential targets of the type we need who are worth 2 top 10’s except for the possible H Reid and if the draft isn’t that strong, then surely WCE know that too.
I dont look at Brisbane i look at North they are a true reflection of what bottoming out fully looks like.
If there are two quality WA talents in the top 10 WC might still be intrested in our 2 top 10 picks
Of course you don’t, because that doesn’t fit your arguement.
2014-2018 Brisbane finished:
15th, 17th, 17th, 18th, 15th.
Not sure how that isn’t bottoming out. The only reason they didn’t win the spoon twice, was because all our players were suspended.
But I guess it didn’t matter because they ended up with the player who should have been the no. 1 pick.