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You see what would normally happen with a club, is they'd analyse big brother up the road. "They've been successful, let's copy exactly what the do".Regardless of beginnings, Freo have had 23 years to get their sh*t together.
More early draft picks than even Carlton can poke a stick at and continually squander them away with stupid quick-fix trades rather than trying to build the team from within.
The problem now is that they have 23 years of that Freo culture ingrained in the club to deal with. 23 years of crying "poor us" and blaming everything on the Eagles (despite 15 years of being financially propped up by theEaglesWAFC). 23 years of over-paying for trades just to one-up the eagles.
Let them bitch and moan. We'll keep winning flags.
And in time tweak so they can do better than us.
In Freos instance, they do exactly the opposite, even if it means jumping off a bridge, because you know, "we showed them, we did it our way". They don't give a rat's about the result, so long as they do the opposite of WCE, they can hold their head high.
But you are right, 23 or 24 years of ingrained mediocrity, it's in their ethos, in their DNA, it's what is plastered on their mission statement at C ock burn.
Case in point, there is no way WCE would tolerate the rubbish that Matera displays on field. We don't tolerate it, we have standards. At Failmantle they accept and embrace mediocrity with open arms.
And what are Freo supporters anyway, they all supported WCE at the beginning, they are Turncoats. The type of people you don't trust and the type that get shanked in person.