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This is the fifth year of our rebuild. Our last coach told us we'd have no excuse not to win a flag by this year.
Most people offering gratuitous advice at least do their research. Leave us alone will ya?
We changed the coach / some assistants last year. Fair to say that this year was giving the current SC team the benefit of the doubt which they have failed miserably. I assume the Freo Board will know this and will be looking for replacements now to completely revamp this side of the club for next year.There's also no current reason to believe the next few seasons will be nothing but brave losses due to missing personnel. If nothing was done to change this last season then why would anything change now. I really can't get excited anymore about how good our best 22 might be because it's never going to happen.
Good to see Hawkins get a week (Intentional/High/Low)
That way he managed to advantage WC (play Geelong sans Hawkins) whilst ensuring we didn't get any advantage. It's kind of genius/evil when you think about it.Of course the umpire was right there and pretended not to see it.
I know exactly what your talking about. He looked like c3po trying to pick the ball up and getting tackled a second later. Just an idiotic player with limited agility.
I appreciate your positivity, and I too agree that the club is trending in an upward direction, but shouldn't the rebuilding of the list have been completed between the years of 2017 and 2020?You expect to rebuild your entire list in 1 year? Its a new start. It will take 3-5 years at best and in all reality and as a Eagles fan too, I can honestly say year 1 is off to a very very good start
Cerra/Brayshaw having career best seasons. Young/Serong are two absolute jets. Tucker/Duman working into solid best 22 players finally. Frederics/Sturt/Schultz showing signs despite playing in a struggling forward line at present without much structure (which is fixable with more time).
This is opposed to last year when id say you had nothing good happen at all. Like literally nothing. Cannot for the life of me think of a positive from last year you had compared to what I mentioned in the above
You're an idiotYou want to blame Longmuir for Ross Lyons promises? Gotta be fairer then that ffs
Rebuilds take a long time -- even when you do them right.I appreciate your positivity, and I too agree that the club is trending in an upward direction, but shouldn't the rebuilding of the list have been completed between the years of 2017 and 2020?
This is correct. For the first time in the history of the club we have gone hard at the national draft for several years in a row, a proper rebuild. 2016-2019 - it will be 2023 to 2027 before we see proper dividends from this investment, but when we do it should be the most sustained period of competing at the pointy end in the clubs history. If we keep topping up at the draft over the next 2-3 years and leverage the NGA when we start to rise up the ladder, we will have long term success.Rebuilds take a long time -- even when you do them right.
Hodge & Mitchell drafted 2001. Franklin, Lewis, Roughhead: 2004. Hawks win flag in 2008 "ahead of schedule".
But I don't know whether we have done the rebuild right. There are no guarantees. Carlton are still rebuilding. Rebuilds are risky ideas decided on by footy club managers who don't have a lot of respect for their players or fans.
This is the lowest I’ve felt about the club. It’s dire.
2001 we'd been a club for five years or so. We were Gold Coast 2016-17 without the concessions. There were legit reasons for being crap.Now I’ll tell you boyo, back in 2001 that was tough.
You’ve got luuuuuxury.
We changed the coach / some assistants last year. Fair to say that this year was giving the current SC team the benefit of the doubt which they have failed miserably. I assume the Freo Board will know this and will be looking for replacements now to completely revamp this side of the club for next year.
Not sure if COVID will hinder this process or provide opportunity for a massive coup with big guns wanted to move to a covid free place. If they decide that covid becomes a year extension of the SC team's last chance then I think they will lose a lot of members.
You want to blame Longmuir for Ross Lyons promises? Gotta be fairer then that ffs
I'm sorry, is there somewhere else I should be looking? I don't think I've spoken to or read from a single Freo fan who is not fed up with the club's mismanagement of injuries.There seems to be an attitude around Freo fans of "oh well just bad luck, but look how hard our teenagers are trying"
No game sense. Ethan Hughes makes mistakes for the same basic reason. Tabs is similar. Its not a lack of desire to do the right thing. Just an inability to read where the game is at right in that moment.
And same on Tabs. His decision making has improved. actually kicked well around the fieldI think that’s a big unfair on Hughes. He’s really reduced the number of brain farts this season and us playing mostly within his limitations. Personally, I’d rather have him in the back line than Conca, Wilson or Duman.
Man, last night I saw Hughes take a decent contested mark at half back only to think kicking the ball 10m to a stationary target on a wet night with about 20 seconds to go in the Q was the right play.I think that’s a big unfair on Hughes. He’s really reduced the number of brain farts this season and us playing mostly within his limitations. Personally, I’d rather have him in the back line than Conca, Wilson or Duman.
I'd agree if we didn't have 16/22 out for TBA.2001 we'd been a club for five years or so. We were Gold Coast 2016-17 without the concessions. There were legit reasons for being crap.
I'm of the opinion that looking holistically this may be worse, a club that's been in the league 25 years and is five years into a rebuld and dishing up this garbage
Longmuir is inheriting a list that's in its 4th year of a rebuild, there's a distinction. If anything longmuir has less excuses for failure 3 years from now.