st.byron wrote: ↑Tue 28 Aug 2018 12:16am
samoht wrote: ↑Mon 27 Aug 2018 1:03pm
It's also simple -- we keep recruiting multiple C grade midfielders with average skills, and multiple C grade ruckmen -- we will stay sh1te
no matter who coaches us!!!
A coach can easily be replaced --- but you can't take your poor recruiting decisions back.
We need to nail our recruiting and recruit to a plan with some non-negotiables and some quality standards from now on - not haphazardly and with no standards and no plan as we have been over the years.
Our recruiters will continue to drag us down if we're seriously looking at Lycett and Hanneberry.
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So you are saying that none of the young players we’ve recruited in the past five years are any good. None of them. Not one. That’s the logical conclusion of your argument. Is that what you’re saying? He asks for the third time.
I'm saying (and I'm repeating for the last time) we've recruited multiple midfielders -
mostly inside midfielders -
with below average kicking skills, and multiple C grade ruckmen, multiple half back flankers - where is the
quality control and planning with our recruiting? - why aren't we recruiting to our team's needs and with elite skills in mind?
Who/where is our outside A or even B grade midfielder with elite kicking skills like an Isaac Smith or a Brad Hill, etc..?
Who/where is our inside midfielder with elite kicking skills, for that matter?
Who/where is our A grade ruckman?
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear --- you need to recruit silk - as the Hawks did with Burgoyne, and continue to do. We need to emulate these teams, who don't bottom out -
because of their quality recruiting.
Hawthorn would also be a bottom 4 team if they'd recruited the way we did over the last 5-10 years - especially if they also had the injuries we've had this year - even with Clarko as the coach.
I'm not saying this to absolve Richo (as I said he has his faults, and we can always replace him and any coach for that matter)-- I'm just pointing out how crucial quality control and planning is in recruiting, and that we need to get this right above all else.
You can quickly reset with a new coach (providing you have a reasonably strong list) - but you can't bounce back from years and years of poor recruiting (relative to other teams) - this we need to get right if we want sustainable success.