Well nobody really wants you to change your thinking... at least, I don't anyway. Believe whatever you want, just don't force it onto others.
You ignore that the game has evolved during your entire football life. It's exactly like I said to you, too much old fashioned thinking.
The game has changed. Understand that. It is WAY more defensive than it ever was and the tall key forwards have been mitigated as a result.
You either move with the times or you get left behind.
Were Geelong's father sons also coincidentally the best available??
Or the Hawks with all of their priority picks? Pretty good chances that most of those very early picks would turn out to be premiership heroes hey? Was Sammy Mitchell best available? Schwab thought he was too slow and only took the chance on him because he was part of Box Hill. Montagna was the next pick. Dane Swan later on in that draft iirc...
You want sustained success, start hoping that the club is thinking about how to get elite midfielders into our squad.
Who's disgruntled?
SPS was rated as a potential #1 pick by many too. Just because some on here rated him the best doesn't mean SOS ever did. Brodie was rated around #1 by most boards not just ours...
I'll wait until Kennedy actually shows something before I start singing his praises.
Give it a rest. Kerr was taken with pick 65. I'm dead certain the club weren't going to bank their hopes on a pick that late to come good at AFL level. Macreadie - we didn't really have many decent mids left at around his pick either. How many picks post 45 in recent years come good at AFL level? What's the percentage? They're more of a pick in hope or maybe they'll be decent backup when our best players go down.
And the cry for mids wasn't stronger than ever back then. After losing Gibbs and with Murphy clearly well past it, it has become stronger than ever now...
We all hate the Tigers, but they won last year's flag and at the moment are looking to be in best position to win it again this year.
But it's not only Richmond's trend or fad or whatever you want to call it. The Cats won 3 flags all without even one gun key forward...
Dogs didn't have gun tall forwards during 2016. Boyd played his best on grand final day. Didn't do that much before then.
Hawks lose Buddy, no problem, still win 2 flags in a row with lower rated tall forwards.
We've won the contested possession battle the last 2 weeks. Still didn't win the game. Because we're too damn slow. Soon as the ball hit the deck we were ******.
Let's add two more KPF's? No thanks.
Who is labeling the rebuild as a failure? Can't do that until the newly recruited players reach their mid 20's and we're still nowhere near it. Then one could realistically label the rebuild as a failure. No one can right now though, it's far too early...
You've been responding to my posts with nothing but this >>
And you expect me to take you seriously?
You act like things don't bother you, but for some reason they really get under your skin. Just chill, don't get so upset when someone counters your thoughts with their own. Could you imagine this place if everybody was on the same page regarding every single thing? It would be a borefest.
If you want to keep the same thinking for 25-30 years of football even though the game has clearly changed, you're welcome to. I'll just keep using logic and change my thoughts based on the evolution of the game.