Poll: Was season 2022 a Success or Failure?

[Dev Tiger]

It's a failure in that we threw away a spot in the top four by loosing all our close games except for the first Brisbane one. It was a success in that some kids made some progress. We couldn't have gone any further even if we won without Meatball and Grimes.

Some kids got some exposure. MJ, Ross and Sonsie showed a bit. Cumbo and Gibcus were way off the required intensity for a final and will hopefully learn from it.

 

[UKTiger]

Certainly a fail and a wasted year. Our best is still good enough, but the gap to our worst is too great.

I'm not convinced we're in the decline phase just yet with the group overall with the proviso that:
- we recruit two quality midfielders who can win clearance/stoppage and use it;
- we get fit and rectify the soft tissue injuries experienced all season;
- we structurally address clearance/stoppage and associated ruck work;
- we redefine how we defend under the current rules - especially 6-6-6.
- we need to draft a young tall key forward to get 12 months VFL into.

Assuming Cotchin and Riewoldt go on & Dusty gets fit, I see us strongly in contention in 2023.

I assume that was why we drafted Bauer.
We also need to improve our coaching panel in the middle and defensive parts. Hopefully we can get Rutten back in the fold as that will solve our defensive frailties

 

[tigersnake]

Great question. Success for me. I don't subscribe to the blew half a dozen games theory. If we were a genuine contender fair enough, but I think the opposite is true. We overachieved. If we were an average club with an average coach we would have finished outside the 8 and not been as close as we were in a lot of games. All things being equal, in the context of how we overachieved, IMO we probably should have won another 1.5-2 games. But that still wouldn't have had us in the top 4.

Overachieved. Played and developed a lot of young players, including some potential guns. Continuing to manage the retirements of triple flag stars. I'm happy. Still pissed off about last night, but apart from that short term pain, I'm happy.

 

[zgod]

Success.
Here comes generation next.
Seriously pumped about next year

 

[Smoking Aces]

Failure for me because we are a top 4 team and went out in the first week of the finals because we couldn't finish close games.

This. We are still a very good side. But those close losses killed us. We should be playing tonight in a qualifying final. On paper our team is still damn good.

In saying that all is not lost. With continued improvement from the kids and some astute trading we should be up there next year.

 

[Tigers2011]

I assume that was why we drafted Bauer.
We also need to improve our coaching panel in the middle and defensive parts. Hopefully we can get Rutten back in the fold as that will solve our defensive frailties

Think Bauer is too short for a key forward. He’s vying with Cumberland for a spot I reckon.

 

[footballmonk]

I think it’s a success in terms of paving our way to our next premiership - through the season we were a lot less dependent on our older players. In addition to Gibcus and Sonsie coming in and looking like they belonged there was tremendous (and largely unexpected) improvement in Cumberland, Miller and M. Rioli which speaks positively of our development coaching. I’m hoping last night will have stung the younger players (the way the EF losses of 2013-15 would have hurt our premiership generation) and will spur them on to future finals victories.

 

[Carter]

Neither.

Made finals with a list in transition but didn’t win the EF.

Pass.

 

[Carter]

This. We are still a very good side. But those close losses killed us. We should be playing tonight in a qualifying final. On paper our team is still damn good.

In saying that all is not lost. With continued improvement from the kids and some astute trading we should be up there next year.

I reckon our midfield is not finals material Aces.

Cotch and Edwards fading, Lambo gone, Martin underdone. Sonsie the only kid to step up. Ross OK.

We’ve fallen away there and I’m sure the club is well aware of it.

 

[Sintiger]

I can’t make up my mind so cheese sandwich

We were in every game we played, at times we played football as good as any other team around. I said we were a 6-10 team and that’s where we finished

But
We wasted an opportunity to go deep, 0-5-1 in games decided by a goal or less. The what could have been season

But
IMHO we have the best group of young players coming through that I have seen at the club for many years. I think our future is very bright.
You could hear it in Dimma’s voice at the presser last night, he knows it too.

 

[Smoking Aces]

I reckon our midfield is not finals material Aces.

Cotch and Edwards fading, Lambo gone, Martin underdone. Sonsie the only kid to step up. Ross OK.

We’ve fallen away there and I’m sure the club is well aware of it.

Hence why we are getting Tarranto and hopefully we also have a crack at Hopper. We can fix this in one off season.

 

[DavidSSS]

Cheese sandwich.

Yes, we could have won enough games to make top 4, but I think it would have been a bit illusory. Our midfield would not have been competitive enough in finals.

We made finals and it was Richmond who lost that game not Brisbane who won. We beat ourselves too often and that's where we are at the moment, not quite good enough to make top 4.

But, we did manage to make finals and we got a fair number of young players some experience in the seniors. Plus, there are a few more who could be good.

There is a future, even after winning 3 flags we have a future and a promising group of young players.

DS

 

[Rfc4Ever]

We were right in it with most of our games, with a chance to win all of them in the 3rd or even last qtr, we just lost so many. That is the difference between a good side and a great side.

Amazing how close we were to top 4 with all of those close losses.

Failure for me.

 

[Stackey]

Failure...just canna beat those maggots even on our home ground!

 

[tigerlove]

Finished better than I thought we would but in the end failure for all tbe games we had in the bag and lost. If we took even half of those opportunities we'd be playing again next week.

 

[St Kevin]

I think it is a failure, largely due to all the close losses, but you can still take plenty of positives from the season going forward.

 

[tigerlove]

Think Bauer is too short for a key forward. He’s vying with Cumberland for a spot I reckon.

Is a bit short, same height as KMac at 191 but not sure he's competing against Cumbo who's 183. I'm thinking if he could play a Gunston role then he'd be a perfect replacement for Jack.

 

[Spirit of Jack]

You could throw a blanket over the teams in the 8. The premiership was there for the taking. So I considered it a missed opportunity season, right up to when Prestia was injured in the EF - then the reality is we couldn't win it anyway.

 

[RoarEmotion]

If we didn’t have the flags in the bag we would be ropable. Absolute gilt edged opportunity wasted over the whole season. We made U12 errors that are completely fixable in multiple games finishing with two of them inside the last two minutes of the elimination final (lynch not snapping, backline not punching through for a behind and one person staying down on Daniher).

Luck didn’t roll our way either. The 50m spree Carlton got in round 1. The ridiculous accuracy north had and their coach getting sacked the week before. The ARC. The ‘common sense’ non-50 with Sydney. Hard to not wear a tin foil hat with all this *smile*.

I reckon we have one more shot at it next year then is going to be tough with Riewoldt Cotchin gone and then the whole backline / wing siutuation is going to lose 1000+ games of experience in a year or two. - grimes vlaustin Pickett Tarrant broad macintosh

 

[deedee]

Pre season I had us struggling this year and next, as we transitioned to the next generation, won about as many games as I expected but the close losses makes me think we are closer to the turn around than I thought. So slightly beat my expectations for the year.