I’m not sure when the rebuild actually started. It certainly wasn’t post 2016.
I think Scott called it an “aggressive reset” and we brought in a bunch of mediocre players to cover the forced retirement of club greats.
There was no serious appetite to rebuild and we went all in for another tilt late 2018 with the Polec debacle and acquiring Pittard, Hall and Dom Tyson.
After this went to rubbish, Scott then said we needed to rebuild and was rightfully punted.
It just went from bad to worse from there with Shaw taking over as interim coach, Shaw then being appointed senior coach, the hub, Rawlings and Luff, the list cull of 2020, hiring Paul Roos (who once traded pick 2 for Dom Tyson and said some club should trade pick 1 for Jordan Galluci) and finally appointing David Noble as coach.
It’s probably actually fortunate we had guys on such heavily front loaded deals, that we didn’t lose more players during that Noble era or the last 5 years.
Apart from a handful of players that have come out of drafting in that era, we are really two drafts into this rebuild with almost no senior players of note or winning experience to guide the ship. Shiels on paper is but is 33 and cooked.
“Patience is required” is what will again be a slogan for the next couple of years. The difference this time is we have people at the wheel who know what they are doing and we seem to have finally drafted in high end talent who will end up in the elite category.
On face value Rawlings should have already gone, but I guess it’s hard to know if it was him being overruled by the series of incompetent coaches, bosses and consultants over the past 5 years.
Having said that, if we are truly serious about being a high performance environment and having the best available in roles throughout the club and footy department, I’d suggest there are better options than Brady that we need to get in the chair.
I think Scott called it an “aggressive reset” and we brought in a bunch of mediocre players to cover the forced retirement of club greats.
There was no serious appetite to rebuild and we went all in for another tilt late 2018 with the Polec debacle and acquiring Pittard, Hall and Dom Tyson.
After this went to rubbish, Scott then said we needed to rebuild and was rightfully punted.
It just went from bad to worse from there with Shaw taking over as interim coach, Shaw then being appointed senior coach, the hub, Rawlings and Luff, the list cull of 2020, hiring Paul Roos (who once traded pick 2 for Dom Tyson and said some club should trade pick 1 for Jordan Galluci) and finally appointing David Noble as coach.
It’s probably actually fortunate we had guys on such heavily front loaded deals, that we didn’t lose more players during that Noble era or the last 5 years.
Apart from a handful of players that have come out of drafting in that era, we are really two drafts into this rebuild with almost no senior players of note or winning experience to guide the ship. Shiels on paper is but is 33 and cooked.
“Patience is required” is what will again be a slogan for the next couple of years. The difference this time is we have people at the wheel who know what they are doing and we seem to have finally drafted in high end talent who will end up in the elite category.
On face value Rawlings should have already gone, but I guess it’s hard to know if it was him being overruled by the series of incompetent coaches, bosses and consultants over the past 5 years.
Having said that, if we are truly serious about being a high performance environment and having the best available in roles throughout the club and footy department, I’d suggest there are better options than Brady that we need to get in the chair.
