First and foremost, despite what some may allude to, we are not a broken club!
What we are and what I have written about before is a club that has been making decisions based on its past glories and the timelines driven by those whose only interest is immediate and definite success. They simply do not care or understand what the club has gone through in the past thirty years. There is no long-term plan, only short-term decisions that will not and never have resulted in any form of success. These people are quick to plaster themselves in the news and on the radio. They are quick to respond and show their self-motivated views, but they do not understand what will make the club successful again.
It will take someone at the club who has the tenacity to stand up and say with clarity that the club needs a five-year plan to turn things around. Based on this, the club has to get and develop its playing group. To succeed, you need to mould and develop young players who need time and space to become better players and to be a club that is feared in the world of AFL. The club has not had that. We have had a culture of knee-jerk reactions based on the impatience of those who are too steeped in the arrogance of the past and do not want to contemplate the modern game unless their agenda determines it.
I am angry and pissed off that there is yet again the call to sack another coach by those very people who have their self interest at heart. I am angry and pissed off that some go to the media and call and say that they speak on behalf of Carlton supporters, they do not and never will. I am angry and pissed off that yet again we have no definitive long term plan to turn this club around.
I will always be a Carlton supporter, but unless the club and supporters get out of this mindset that it has been thirty years since our last success, without understanding how chequered those years have been, we will never see any resemblance of success. Right now, we need to make a plan that is not one determined by definite success in the next few years, but one that will slowly develop into making the club great again.
The club needs to get the decision makers to be on board with a long-term plan to achieve long-term success. It will come with some disappointing performances, but it will also enable growth and maturity in the players who will see success.
I am a passionate and fiercely proud member of the Carlton FC and always will be. Now it is time for the leaders of the club both on and off field to draw a line in the sand and make a plan that will give us the success’s we want.
#GoBlues
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