As Collingwood supporters we have mastered the art of romanticising and remodelling history to suit ourselves.
Has anyone really done an in depth review of the 2011 list and looked at how those that departed have performed in the subsequent years ?
I just think of the rapid decline of Dawes, Jolly, Ball, Toovey, Caff, Nathan Brown, Thomas and H. There are others that have departed and gone ok but other than Heater and, to an injury riddled extent, Beams who has improved ?
We keep talking of a list that was primed for greatness maybe our zenith of that list was 10/11 and it was always going to decline. Decisions since should be questioned but lets not pretend we had the list of a Hawthorn like dynasty.