So how long will it be before we’re actually a top, feared and unstoppable team - like we were in the olden days?

[Cool Kangas]

1-2 more years, 5, 10??

When? I’m dizzy from being on the merry go round for so long.

 

[Billy Not Really]

Not in my lifetime at this rate.

 

[The Nostradamus]

I mean to be fair no team is feared atm

 

[scottywiper]

It's unlikely to be some time.
With the various inequities in the afl these days, I'm not expecting to see another flag in my lifetime.
I don't see us lucking into another Carey.

 

[Cool Kangas]

I mean to be fair no team is feared atm

Ahhh back in the day we were...those were the days: <reminiscent faraway look face>

 

[The Nostradamus]

Ahhh back in the day we were...those were the days: <reminiscent faraway look face>

Sort of my point tho, days of teams being feared are over

Afl is pretty even nowadays any given Sunday

 

[Roosurgence]

When we have cleared the deadwood.

I’m hoping Brady can weave some magic and fill this list out. For once in a very long time we have some exciting kids, we just need them all to develop and to nail a draft or two.

 

[Ry009]

Once the stench of Brad has aired out of the club we'll be ok.

 

[lynden18]

Come on CARTER we need you "...

 

[Shermanator]

Come on CARTER we need you "...

Coach or Vince?..

 

[shinboner magic]

Once the stench of Brad has aired out of the club we'll be ok.

Yes correct - If bard was coaching Today and we came that close he’d be happy in the presser and giving them pats on the back. Hopefully Rhyce ripped into them for only playing a quarter of footy

We are competitive at the moment and playing crap - get a decent rebounding defender and a crumber in the forward line and we’ll improve quite a bit. Add that to our young players that will improve their consistency

 

[lynden18]

Coach or Vince?..

Carter carey ,Wayne’s son give him number 18 now he’ll grow into it

 

[Horizons_00]

Chill. First year and under extremely difficult circumstances

I have belief

 

[DuckYeah]

We have cunners the last two weeks and we win both games. We arent far that far off. However this season is s**t. I was once backing in the shorter quarters, not any more.. hate em

 

[Only Forwards]

Olden days like the 90s?

Wed need the best player in the league.

Olden days like the 70s?

We will never have a side that makes grand finals for 5 years in a row again.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Once the stench of Brad has aired out of the club we'll be ok.

This (I hope).

 

[Mr north man]

5 years of patience by 1st of all don’t trade away are 2 -1st round picks for this year and ONLY re sign certain players EG: Brown others either trade or delist plus bring in a proper and I mean proper skills coach that can teach us to kick around the ground and at goal plus handball would be good.

 

[goalieboy82]

kids back in my day...

 

[Shermanator]

Chill. First year and under extremely difficult circumstances

I have belief

Bang on.

Have faith, we have a very good coach now and once we get our roster right, happy days are here again.

 

[Gasometer]

The soft cap couldn’t have come along at a worse time for us with young players coming on who will need specialist line Coaches over the next 3/4 years.

Anyway I am still trying to pick myself up off the floor as I come to terms with “Olden Days”

 

[krakouers]

kids back in my day...
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Syd Barker, now HE was a footballer, not like that softie King

 

[Cool Kangas]

The soft cap couldn’t have come along at a worse time for us with young players coming on who will need specialist line Coaches over the next 3/4 years.

Anyway I am still trying to pick myself up off the floor as I come to terms with “Olden Days”

haha! These days I feel like those days were in fact the olden days...the good old days

 

[goalieboy82]

the theme to this thread sounds like:

 

[Cool Kangas]

the theme to this thread sounds like:

Haha...oh those 90s flags...such a long long time ago....

 

[Marstermind]

Simpkin, Zurhaar, Larkey, LDU, TT are all 20-22 and shown they up to the standard. Let's say they hit their peak in 3-4 years. Let's also hope the other 22 or under blokes on the list become something (Mahony, Perez, Comben, Scott, Crocker, Bonar, McGuinness Crocker, Xerri, Murphy, Walker, McKay)

However, currently we have the best key defender in the game (31yo), one of the best rucks (31), 2 elite mids (32 & 28), one of the best tall forwards (27). Tarrant, Goldstein and Higgins don't have 3-4 years left in them. Likewise the 29yos - Ziebell, Daw, Hall, Pittard.

Then we have blokes who are 23-26 who are genuine C-graders. OK, some deserving of a spot for now, but probably below what we hoped they'd be for whatever reason and unlikely to get better - Garner, Ahern, Wood, Turner, Anderson, Dumont, McDonald, Williams. How many of these do we want around in 3-4 years? Are they tradable? What could we get?

Then there's the deadwood. 27/28yos who have no improvement in them, have been around for ages and offer little to nothing now. Macmillan, Atley, Jacobs , Campbell, Tyson.

The only blokes not covered in the categories above are J.Walker & Polec (brought in from other clubs to fill specific roles) and Hosie & Durdin.

IF we jettison the deadwood now (ie only play them when there just aren't any other options and move them on ASAP) AND reduce our reliance on the C-graders and maybe shop a few around at the end of the year AND develop the young guns to A-grade material and maybe find a couple in the unproven youngsters AND smash the ears off of the draft/trade period......I reckon we could challenge next year and be "feared and unstoppable" for a couple of years after that. But the window is small because after that Taz, Higgins and Goldy will just about be done, and Brown and Cunnington will start heading off the cliff.