Hello,
I'd like to ask, how do you think Adelaide's 2016 season is going compared to, say, the previous 5 seasons (so 2016 v 2015 v 2014 v 2013 v 2012 v 2011)? I guess you could compare as far back as you want, it wont matter as will become obvious below.
For me Adelaide 2016 is daylight ahead of 2015 and 2012 which I have about even and then more daylight back to 14, 13 and 11.
I'm not just basing this on ladder position, though that's important, but more about club overall performance. That's why 2016 easily trumps 2012, we did 2012 with a lot of players towards the end of their careers (Rutten, Stiffy, Porps, Dogga was still playing then I think) whereas this year we have a young team, an exciting lot of talent, a large margin to find our ceiling and should be able to be confident of being up the top of the ladder for a while (touchwood).
I might just briefly mention a couple of other key positives:
Off field staff and turnover. I have seen enough to be confident in the coaching and management and all staff really to know that we are in good hands. I thought we were stale and lacked ideas for a few years when we had the same people in spots for a long time but now after a few years of constantly new people and ideas and mentalites coming through the place we are well placed.
List turnover, recruitment and development. We have to be close to best in the league at this. We have some excitement in the team and still a fair bit in the two's. GWS wont be getting too many top draft picks in the future, they'll get the same as everyone else, will they be able to do what we do? As long as we can keep bringing in talent we have a good chance to keep up with (or be) the top of the comp.
For the first time ever, coming up soon, we may even be on the positive side of the ledger with father son leg up.
We are in the top 8, after WC next week we've played everyone else in the top 8 and not much of the bottom 8. After the bye we play 3 top 8 teams and 7 bottom eight. Meanwhile, lots of other top 8 teams will be duking it out with other top 8 teams. We are having a good season!
Overall I'm positive as f about the club. If you are positive about it and I don't expect everyone to be as positive as me, but can you please check the tone and sentiment of your posts. I don't come in here anymore as a result of the endless and unjustified negative stuff that's said.
By the way substantial numbers of people are posting, I'd estimate this is by a long way the worst year (most negative) since I've been on bigfooty.
Please spend a minute reflecting on where AFC is at and where your posting is at and if they're not aligned can you fix it up? It would make BF Adel a reasonable place to be again.
Thanks.
I'd like to ask, how do you think Adelaide's 2016 season is going compared to, say, the previous 5 seasons (so 2016 v 2015 v 2014 v 2013 v 2012 v 2011)? I guess you could compare as far back as you want, it wont matter as will become obvious below.
For me Adelaide 2016 is daylight ahead of 2015 and 2012 which I have about even and then more daylight back to 14, 13 and 11.
I'm not just basing this on ladder position, though that's important, but more about club overall performance. That's why 2016 easily trumps 2012, we did 2012 with a lot of players towards the end of their careers (Rutten, Stiffy, Porps, Dogga was still playing then I think) whereas this year we have a young team, an exciting lot of talent, a large margin to find our ceiling and should be able to be confident of being up the top of the ladder for a while (touchwood).
I might just briefly mention a couple of other key positives:
Off field staff and turnover. I have seen enough to be confident in the coaching and management and all staff really to know that we are in good hands. I thought we were stale and lacked ideas for a few years when we had the same people in spots for a long time but now after a few years of constantly new people and ideas and mentalites coming through the place we are well placed.
List turnover, recruitment and development. We have to be close to best in the league at this. We have some excitement in the team and still a fair bit in the two's. GWS wont be getting too many top draft picks in the future, they'll get the same as everyone else, will they be able to do what we do? As long as we can keep bringing in talent we have a good chance to keep up with (or be) the top of the comp.
For the first time ever, coming up soon, we may even be on the positive side of the ledger with father son leg up.
We are in the top 8, after WC next week we've played everyone else in the top 8 and not much of the bottom 8. After the bye we play 3 top 8 teams and 7 bottom eight. Meanwhile, lots of other top 8 teams will be duking it out with other top 8 teams. We are having a good season!
Overall I'm positive as f about the club. If you are positive about it and I don't expect everyone to be as positive as me, but can you please check the tone and sentiment of your posts. I don't come in here anymore as a result of the endless and unjustified negative stuff that's said.
By the way substantial numbers of people are posting, I'd estimate this is by a long way the worst year (most negative) since I've been on bigfooty.
Please spend a minute reflecting on where AFC is at and where your posting is at and if they're not aligned can you fix it up? It would make BF Adel a reasonable place to be again.
Thanks.
