Despite personally thinking we are no hope I would really hope they have not given in yet. Tanking = Carlton results.
Well, a club can delude itelf into thinking it's competitive or it can be a bit too pragmatic and tank and it seems that it will end up in exactly the same spot. Given that we've tried delusion for 15 years, it's probably time to try tanking.
It's the point that is missed in so much of the analysis. 20 - 50 year droughts and periods of mediocrity are not cyclical, especially not for the clubs with the resources that Essendon has.
The simply reality is that the club has not ever let itself come to terms with being mediocre, not for 15 years. It pretends that it's good and this forces the football department to make stupid decisions which it clocks up at a rapid rate.
Carlton finally seems to understand that at some point you need to level with your members and supporters so that they can join in on the ride. It's the pressure release that is necessary to enable everyone to move forward. The irony is, of course, that our onfield performance does not suffer when we change the side (as evidence by the last three matches) so you'd have to be a fool to think that it will cost membership and sponsors.
The concerning thing is that Worsfold was a master tanker at West Coast. Results ebbed and flowed and West Coast seemed always to ride it out. He left Adam Simpson a list that made a GF in two years because of it and that same list is the foundation of the current side. He's chasing results with us when he should be trying to develop a team. That's not good.
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