For me no teams plan is wrong, it simply comes down to execution. Although I'm fully supportive of our plan and actually fully agree with it, it does worry me when you look at the bottom 4 sides. All have been doing the same thing, some just longer than others.
The Saints I find the most interesting because they were up there with the Hawthorns, Geelongs, Sydneys but took the path of a longer rebuild, no doubt for sustained success.
Problem for St.kilda though is they had just as many misses as our own Wayne Hughes with their top 3 round draft choices there was just zero talent coming through...does that ring a bell.
So yes, there are many ways to skin a cat in this game but when you have no underbelly then you need to take drastic action which is what SOS did.
It pains me that Hughes was with us for so long ******* up draft after draft after draft, and then we went and replaced him with Rogers who at least picked one gem out of the whole debacle.
Richmond used to do the same thing, now they get hits on most first and second rounders when they couldn’t hit the side of a barn door on a selection 10 years ago and before.
Geelong/Hawthorn/Sydney et al find talent in just about every draft so when they take a slide they can top up with free agents and give them time to bring through young talent hence their mini rebuilds are different.
We had a massive opportunity pre GC and GWS coming in and diluting the talent after we’d taken cream for 5 of the preceding 8 years. Completely ****** it up!!
And then free agency came in and made this rebuild harder than its ever been to get back to the top.
We certainly have cut ourselves off at the knees in more ways than one.