The Eagles,Lions and Swans have a pretty good record of "hogging flags". Last time i checked none of them are Victorian based."they loved Pyke in the early going, but they don't now."
I'm sorry, but it's obviously losing the Grand Final that has sewn all of this. Everything went up the s**t after that. Not before. It was completely fine before.
But they lost the Grand Final because they are participating in an unfair league.
Now, the players - and the fans - aren't going to internalise it that way. The players can't afford to and the fans, well, also sort of can't afford to. But it is the reason. And we are going to go through a lot of pain over many, many years before fans are ready to handle that this is the reason.
All the fallout is what happens when something like this happens. These are the ramifications for getting f’ed in the arse.
The women would not be able to be the beautifully executed, ruthless, happy and successful unit they are with the player retention record they have, if the same people at the top were as useless as made out.
It's the same people. Phil Harper. Andrew Fagan. Rob Chapman. Matthew Clarke. We literally have one of our assistant coaches from our men's squad coaching our women.
It doesn't follow.
Maybe in 20 years people will be ready to talk, but West Coast potting one from the boundary after conceding a 5 goal start hasn't erased anything. It will not go away, it is just how long until people get sick of Victoria hogging all the flags.