As a Carlton supporter for fifty years, I can honestly say that SILVAGNI is extremely overrated, especially when you compare him to most other list managers.
An arrogant bloke who always targets the predictable, list clogging rubbish that has infested the Blues for the past few years. His first year was his BEST year when he had plenty of high draft picks to play with. Number one was Weitering, followed by Harry McKay, Charlie Curnow, David Cunningham (yet to fulfil his potential) and his son, Jack.
Since then, one has to ask what talent has he brought to this club????
Drafted 2016->
SPS, Fisher, Macreadie, Williamson, Polson and Kerr (delisted) Rookied LeBois for three years of nothing
Drafted 2017->
Dow at 3, O'Brien at 10, De Koning, Schumacher (delisted), Garlett (delisted)
Traded for
2015->
Kerridge, Phillips, Lamb, Sumner, Gorringe, Plowman (all gone but Plowman)
2016->
Pickett, Marchbank, Smedts, Palmer (all gone but Marchbank)
2017->
Lobbe, Kennedy, Lang (Might all be gone)
2018->
Setterfield, McGovern, Newman (Good year)
2019->
Pittonet, Betts (TBD)
Could have signed Brandon Ellis - but decided to halt the deal after Cain Liddle presented the proposal to him.
Could have signed Ollie Wines - after representatives of Wines approached Carlton that he was interested in joining Carlton. Silvagni quickly stopped ANY further discussions, despite the obvious fact that Patrick Crippes needs another hard-bodied mid to help him.
Could have signed Dan Butler - but decided to halt the deal after initial talks involved SILVAGNI.
Silvagni always targets easy signings, players that lack ANY hardness at the ball.
As far as I am concerned, he hasn't help progressive's the club after four years of rebuilding, and I predict we willl still be a bottom four club in 2020.
SILVAGNI should have the decency to admit that he has STUFFED everything up, and do the honourable thing, which is to hand in his resignation. If not, I hope that he is sacked at the end of the year.
Spot on, I think SOS is an average list-manager not because of this year, but the last four.
Clearly GWS were happy to get rid of so many of their high draft pick, low yield players. And you would have thought the one person who would know better than anyone who was worth pursuing at GWS, was the man who assembled that list!
But perhaps the answer is implicit in that statement, SOS used a bevy of great picks to recruit average players in the first place.