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This.

We totally and utterly failed as a club to transition in to the professional era. It was a club-wide failure.

Sheedy was your classic old style coach that did all of the things, which was fine in the semi professional era, and that transitional era through the 90s and early 00s even.

We totally underfunded our football department resources post-Sheedy, not at all keeping up with how modern AFL clubs run. We then resourced the hell out of it with Hird, saw that blow up, appointed Worsfold as a caretaker, Rutten was drastically under resourced and maybe, just maybe, Scott and Vozzo are making us a professional organisation.