nebakke
Well-Known Member
I understand your point, and agree a little as well, but the end result to this theory is that we only recruit players who would be bench players at other teams, based on the ‘carrot’ of getting game time.
That’s actually what we have been doing, and the result is we are crap, because there is a reason those players spend time in the bench everywhere else.
We need to break the cycle and recruit players who would actually get game time at top 6 clubs, and those players don’t want to come to the spooners.
The thing is that the maths around what interesting players are available is not as simple as "could they walk into a starting spot in Sydney or Perth" it's also about what is needed at those other clubs at the time and what sort of player they're looking for, not to mention history. So again, a bit of shrewdness from the coach and this might not be quite as dire.
Really my core point is that I worry that the quality argument leads to everyone including the club, just seeing it as a "fait accompli" when it's not.