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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3369187, member: 9052"] I wouldn't necessarily say it was all Seibold that made the decisions that were made... I can only recall from the interviews when he was first signed that EVERYTHING was about all the young talent we had coming through... "we've got a special group of players coming through" I feel like it was more the football department at the time and they were having serious FOMO about every player they identified... They wanted to keep them all and in doing so had to get rid of everyone in the top 30 that had peaked (McGuire, Macca, Kodi, Roberts, etc.). They were clearing cap space left, right and centre to try and retain all the young guys coming through and we were left with a massive leadership void... to me that's what really dropped us to our lowest point. I don't necessarily think that Moose, Macca, Knik, etc. were all outstanding leadership material, but the abrupt nature that they were all tapped on the shoulder and moved on would've created a seriously toxic environment. Seibold was new to the club and didn't really have much idea about what players to keep or who was coming through... but I think his own hubris had him thinking that he could take a squad of U20's through to the top 4 and premiership glory so he went along with the culling of senior players and giving the cap to young guys like Dearden, etc. That was the dream that management sold him when they interviewed him and he gleefully accepted it: "We have a group of young guys coming through. Can you make them into a premiership force?" "Yes... I'll direct you to my first powerpoint slide..." "Wait... I've seen enough... I've only got one more question... do you have a pen for this 5yr contract??" [/QUOTE]

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