getting sick of reading the Collingwood fans' excuse for this decline that they're a young team. That's of their doing. You don't get a list of blokes into their prime and not build around them. They could've kept Thomas, Dawes, Wellingham and Shaw and were a massive destination club in a position to extend their premiership tilt in the way the hawks have and even Geelong have by being aggressive list managers. Instead they've lost these players, obviously underwhelmed and under performing in the new regime, and replaced them with hacks like Young, White and Lynch. Then they've sung and danced about how clever they were recruiting such spuds.
They were a top 4 team in contention and showed themselves the door early. They said "hmm, not sure i like being good now, i'd rather be good in the future".
It makes me particularly angry because our coach walked into a club that had already recently lost about 10 of its core players across 2 seasons and actually HAD to build through the draft. Bloody Collingwood are giving a valid excuse (of being young) a bad name.