I was so drunk and disappointed that I walked home (didn’t catch public transport) and put myself straight to bed… because I couldn’t deal with the humiliation of a belting to Carlton.
It didn’t sway me into being a pessimist, like the North game tho. That was the end of my ‘blindly support the club’ days.
Anyway, The Dodoro cultists believe that group of players, who lost to Carlton, were good enough to win a premiership if it wasn’t for the Saga.
TBF the post does say we’ve regressed so badly ON FIELD in the last 2 and a half years.
would it be a more accurate statement if the poster had of said 3 years (or whatever it is to put us back into 2021 ?)
all the stuff you mention is off field though, not on field. and it requries context that could those same changes not have been made, without moving on rutten ?
Rutten won 11 games in his first year, with supposedly poor standards, poor fitness and all those issues.
Scott does the same, with an extra game in season, and supposedly gets credit for all the off field stuff as a justification as on field progession is just it is what it is ?
I mean you could still argue the list strategy is pretty cooked considereing the long term nooses around our neck to sub par ordinary players who are regarded as leaders now.
we have the perception of a football club that’s undivided, but do you see that lasting long if performances on field, continue their trajectory as they have ?
If scotts struggling next year, you don’t think the rats on the board will be jumping ship to cover their own arses and pretend it wasn’t their idea to back in scott ?
If somebody had made the statement that we’d improved so greatly on field over the last 2.5 years I’d also call that out. The reality is there’s been very very little change on-field for the last 20 years. Outside of some emotion charged wins in early 2013, the on-field performance has been, again, mediocre at best.
That day in 2011 was humiliating. Getting them back in 2012 with the Lonergan-“privately seething” match was fun, but it doesn’t paint over a finals loss of that magnitude.
I think it’s reasonable to expect that the club would have won a final in those years were it not for the Saga, but anything beyond that is wishful dreaming.
Regardless… everyone knows the big turning point of the club was March 26, 2010 when Jay Neagle played on in the goal square in a crucial moment against Geelong, missing the goal that would have extended a lead to 30 points against the reigning premier.
I see a lot of people finding positives with the youngsters. I agree with them they are good players but we have been drafting in new talent for the last 10+ years and it has failed and become wasted every time.
The club needs to stop this incompetence and take it dead seriously because we are having none of this BS