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<p style="margin-left: 40px"><strong>We need</strong>; Reality Check - we wont win a flag with this list</p>

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My crackpot theories:

1. The Losing Culture - it seems when we are up against it, we just throw in the towel. You can say it hurts when you lose, and you may well mean it. But that is not the same as being out there and when things are going against you, doing absolutely everything in your power to wrestle back ascendancy, but rather going through the motions just hoping things will turn around, others will lift, the opposition will take there foot off the pedal etc.

2. The Melbourne Boys Club - also seems like senior players have been allowed to do things their way for years in regards to working hard on the track and in games. They then seem to get the shits when someone comes in and wants to do things differently and more professionally. Resistance to change happens in all workplaces, it is similar to me doing my job for 5 years and then a new boss comes in and wants me to do things his way and I say to myself, 'stuff this bloke, I have been doing it this way for 5 years and doing it well'. Playing group need to realise their way isn't working.

3. Young Playing Group - the senior lads also seem to have got the hump with the way some of their peers have been treated. White, Yze, Robertson and McDonald among others were all big personalities in the group and still arguably had something to give on the field. Obviously this meant we have an extremely young list and the younger players have arguably been favoured at the selection table and in the leadership group. The senior guys left on the list probably envisaged themselves in leadership group leading this young list, but it hasn't worked out that way mainly because of points 1 and 2.

Well, that could all be well off the mark, but that is my take on it all from the outside.

And in response to the thread title of What We Need? We need to address these mental off field and culture issues before even thinking of playing good footy.

Edited April 2, 201214 yr by Forest Demon