[QUOTE="Peter Sidorkiewicz, post: 54516292, member: 12721"
The quality head coaches in the AFL can deal with these adversities and re-invent the team to progress the club forward. The can be done without having to plummet down the ladder each season. Just look at Geelong. They were in the exact situation as us in 2011 but have still remain competitive for the past 6 years.
Geel are flattered by a huge 86% win rate at home that gives them a walk up start to the finals.
And have they really been COMPETITIVE - given they have lost 7 of their last 10 finals.
Give CFC an 86% win rate at home and we too would look competitive.
St. Kilda is a far better and more realistic benchmark - they have done very poorly since 2010 GF.
Rebuilding is not easy.[/QUOTE]
No it's not; but the problem is that ever since the "succession" the club has spewed rose coloured glasses rhetoric that we'll be flagging by 2017 being one example (Pert & others) and
never has the club said since the "succession" that we're rebuilding or regenerating. Just continually beat it's chest "we're Collingwood" while the competition are rolling around on the floor in laughter - and still are!
And St Kilda BTW are a completely different scenario, all of their GF stars were not young and promising like the list we had; saints went all in for a flag. We
should have been looking like a hawks or cats (dynasty) - no comparison.