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No one can claim to be an expert talent spotter after the first round. It becomes a gamble very quickly at that point.

Even if trac and Clarry stay we are still well down on midfield rotations. It’s clearly the biggest area of need either way.

You’re like Alistair lynch in the 2004 grand final

Angry little man

Largely made up

Footy

Yes it does. Just not the light you want it to shed cause you seem to hate the club for some reason.

If you’re going to go in to bat for the media then 1. defend their record and 2. tell me how their business model could possibly lead to honest and ethical reporting. Then when you’re done with that tell me how you know they are right in this scenario. You may want them to be right, but it doesn’t mean they are. Some people wait till things play out and listen to facts rather than play the anxiety provoking game of follow the media and all their bull [censored]

We don’t exactly have any midfield depth. We didn’t even have a full midfield most of the year. Who takes his place?

He seems to me to have genuine troubles relating to his diagnosis that would impact being in a high performance environment. It’s impossible to know from the outside how his ADD plays out day to day and what effect that has on his life. It’s clearly a significant one.

Why

The Chicago bulls in the 90s made room for all their personalities. Max Gawn seems to lead that way as well. Sometimes to get the most out of people you have to let them be who they are. If you make certain personality types submit to your will you will break them and get nothing out of them.

What does this even mean. How is that related to the previous comment?

I visit a friend up there from time to time. Played teven valley last time. What a little wonderland that course is.

If Clarry goes and pert stays I am officially out. It will give me much more time on weekends to work on playing on the champions tour. The short game still needs work.

Trac isn’t better.

Fans don’t seem to love getting bundled out in finals anymore than finishing in the bottom half. This place is evidence of that. Where you finish is relevant within some contexts, 2nd, 10th or 18th can mean different things at different times, but in ten years time it won’t mean a thing to anyone unless you won the flag.

It’s not a stretch to say he inherited the first one. The second one is credit to him. Being there abouts every year doesn’t seem to be a great strategy. Especially for supporters. The last three years have been brutal. Eventually being there abouts counts for very little historically. Who cares where anyone finishes outside of first.

So is it better to hang out in above average mediocrity land like he has than to ride the ups and downs like hawthorn have? If it’s not about flags how do we measure? I agree with you, but which things do we include? Stability of the club makes you look a better coach than you are. Luck of the list you inherit. Luck of those who work alongside you. I think there’s a better argument to be made that Geelong are run well than there is that Scott is an amazing coach.

Why?

Chris Scott and Geelong are over rated. Apparently if they play finals it’s evidence of their greatness. If we play finals it’s evidence of our failure. 2022 is judged harshly on here but is looking more and more like some kind of feat. As is the following year, based on the previous two. Home and away records shouldn’t be sneered at. Judging coaches is a very difficult thing to do from the outside. Wins and losses and finals records are not the whole picture of what someone has to work with. Is Clarkson a genius or did he just get lucky with his list? Who you have to play/coach against at the time has a lot to do with it. It’s very possible some coaches who achieve nothing are great coaches in clubs who can’t give them what they need. Geelongs record hasn’t amounted to heaps and it is still unclear that their approach is the best way to build a club.

Revisionist history?

The difference between listening to direct sources and listening to journalists these days is vast. there are the actual people and clubs involved and then there are the characters the media talk about that often have little in common with the actual people and or clubs.

So if we listen to direct sources, not much happened. Players, coaches, administrative staff have been having conversations about getting better. Pretty standard end of season talking points. if we listen to the media, everything happened, the sky is falling and the club is a cesspool of sub human types with bad intentions and they are bad at their jobs. I like that the club took its time and wasn’t playing the media’s game or working to their schedule. I’m sure some staff will move on from the club over the off season and that’s probably for the best. Some renewal is always necessary. It’s impossible to gauge how serious this was based only on listening to media speculation. why is it we all know the media are full of [censored] yet when they talk about us so many can’t help but try and read the tea leaves without realising the tea leaves are manufactured and those discussed are caricatures not necessarily built on reality.

We shouldn’t let the media make us furious. It means you’ve let them win. We should rise above their target audience which is lower mid and below type intellects and I should hope we are all a bit better than that