I totally agree.
I believe that we had a good list, I believe we have a good list. We are badly out of form, and we have injuries to key players.
We pick underdone players in favour of blokes who have VFL form.
I assume this is a coaches selection thing, sometimes this hurts us.
No doubt.
I thought we had a good list and "were in the good side category." I thought we were a finals lock, Top 4 chance and consistent threat to anyone. Now I still think we'll might the finals (should win 6 of the last 7, but winning 3 of the next 7 will be tougher), have no hope of Top 4 and have no confidence in what sort of performance we'll deliver against anyone. The list hasn't changed, but the output of those on it has. Goldstein has become elite, Jacobs has become OK, Nahas has a crack, Higgins has been a good addition and everyone else has either stagnated or dropped off.
Yeah we'll hit form and this year will be done.
Critical players get a year older and we have no apparent replacements.
Waite FWIW hasn't made our list worse, he was free, it's not like the Laidley days of selling the farm for guys that didn't make one iota of difference in the scheme of things.
Injuries have cruelled our season that's the truth, the compromised draft has arse stuffed us. We lost our best midfielder by the looks of it last season.
We've come to a fork in the road, interesting times ahead.
Cost us nothing but got a game in front of the future, there are mistakes we cannot afford being made.
We have a coach that picks underdone players and sticks steadfast to a game plan that apparently not all players can execute.
I don't think we have the cattle to execute what we are trying to consistently agaisnt high caliber teams.
Interesting times indeed, we are going to get to a point where something has gotta give, I would think that we get to that point and Brad will be gone.