Where are we on the premiership clock?

[tigertim]

The concept of a premiership clock is nonsense.
There are a few teams- us, the Roos and the WEagles who are at least 2 (being incredibly blindly optimistic), probably more, years away from possibly winning.
Every other team would be aiming to win in 2025, or 2026, and history has plenty of examples of teams rising quickly from apparent mediocrity to contention, and falling the other way just as fast.

Sooo, 2am?

 

[MD Jazz]

Sooo, 2am?

The early bird

 

[MD Jazz]

Reckon this draft will send us at warp speed to the window in about 4 years

 

[TigerPort]

Realistically (and given we successfully develop the kids) we should see real progress as the mid types from this draft hit 21/22 = 2027/28 and then regular finals performers two years after that as the talls from this draft hit 23/24.

That then has us celebrating multiple premierships thru the 2030s

You know it makes sense

 

[Brodders17]

Sooo, 2am?

2am is when all the action used to happen.

 

[tigertim]

2am is when all the action used to happen.

At the hot dog van.

 

[snags]

At the hot dog van.

Is that a same sex shaggin' wagon?

 

[Dyer'ere]

We'll pick up the guts of our next iteration in the next three national drafts. Say ten players. Let's hope ten above average players. Premiership players.

Six years from now the ten players will be 21-25yo. That's about when we can hope to see it come together.

Along the way we can trade talent in and make players out of offcuts. We can rookie and state league.

And then we have three to maybe seven years to flesh out the starting line up. And get everybody fit. And get a coach.

We talk about clocks because they're less painful to think of than calendars. When you're spoony. And in my case, a geriatric. But we can watch actual youth playing for RFC next year and that is a freedom of its own.