Re: To win or not to win - Draft pics V late season wins
IanG said:
Those who are saying they want late wins are mainly proponents for the notion that improvement can come just as much from development as getting high draft picks, which is hardly deluded. The evidence in favour of the importance of development combined with smart recruiting is greater than that for tanking.
are those same proponents the ones who defended and continue to defend the bowdens browns simmonds pettifers whites and richos of this world they wouldnt know development if they fell over it.
you want to know why development is so bad at the rabble footy club. they keep on picking blokes who have deficiencies that cant be fixed. they struggle to get early picks right yet alone all other types of picks.yet people want to forego the earliest possible picks we can get our hands on.
rfc ferals being rfc ferals its never the players the list is fine its always something else other than we are crap.
there is only one way to build the list its called the nd weather ferals like it or not we have no choice but to participate.i would rather participate whole heartedly and get it wrong than do what we currently do.
people talk about our golden era. well lets get one thing clear we were a power back then because the club was the best operater in the vfl at getting the right cattle to the club. we would push the boundaries of ethics and even go past those boundaries to get the cattle that we needed.
1986 and its a new system we now have, every club in the comp bar the rfc and ffc have totally embraced the nd and they push the boundaries of ethics if you like. they do what is needed to get and keep the right cattle.
over the last 5 to 10 yrs all clubs bar probably two have realised more and more the importance of early picks its got to the point where nearly all clubs rfc excluded will not give up their first round picks and most certainly top 10 picks for players unless they are exceptional footballers.
we are light yrs away the loss of all those old buggers probably means we will be worse next yr yep it will get worse before it gets better yet people want to forego pps and as many early picks as we can get for a few meaningless wins against fellow strugglers.
meaningless wins just last yr have already cost us watts 1pp rich 3 picks around 19 35 51 67. meaningless wins means we will miss out again on what should have been 1 pp pick 3 or 4 at the start of the first round and a pick around 19.
if the club just bit the bullet the last 3 yrs should have yielded 2007 cotchin 2. rance 18, selwood 19. 2008 watts 1 rich 3 pick 19.
2009 pick 1 pick 3 pick 19,
since wallace has been there and before he came i have screamed out for proper clean outs earluy draft picks a playing of the kids and the tank.under the draft system we have the end justifys the means,
the run home stkilda if they play close to their best we will get a hiding. adelaide another loss. carlton loss. nm 50/50. ess 50/50 melb50/50. syd loss collingwood loss hawthorn loss wce 50/50.
so at seasons end even if we win all 50/50s and we jag one other our wins should go something like this. nm 2. fr 1. me 1. wce 2 jag 1. thats 7 wins and against what why not tank what is there to be gained beating these teams nothing. we had better hurry up and learn how to manipulate the system we are forced to operate under because another decade of exactly the same *smile* will see us in melb and nm shoes.
