blangerang said:
don't get me wrong i enjoyed our win tonight.. but is it possible we will have a repeat of 2004 where we win too many games and pay the price in 07 when having an 05 year? Sure we have some decent youngsters as we displayed today but there are several clubs whos young list clearly outguns ours, Hawthorn, Essendon, Fremantle, Bulldogs for example are all above us in youth and we can't afford to skip a year in our rebuilding process
there are some key differences
we won't miss out on round 1 & 2 picks
we can trade for players that suits us rather than juts getting anyone avaialble
we have weeded out most of the problem players who didn't want or couldn't handle the change the club was going through
we are into the 4th year of pagan's reign- so the team is gelling better and understanding what pagan is trying to do
there are no more priority picks- so the difference between finishing bottom 2 and 10th is not as big a gap
btw
freo have truck loads of talent but have achieved nothing- talent along does not guarantee success, its about hardwork
essendon- lets wait and see how they go before claims are made on how good their talent is
hawthorn and footscray- yeah they are a fair way ahead of us
afl is a cyclical game some clubs will be on the rise while others will be on a decline.