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Good article, agree with most points although I think some of the more established players are
more talented than most would give them credit for and which has kept the team from regularly being cellar dwellers. IMO Ben Jacobs is a massive out and one of the most important players in the team, one of, if not, the best taggers in the league (particularly valuable now that the new rules provide more room for stars to dominate) and can hurt teams back the other way in picking up possessions and kicking goals. Confidence is also a wonderful thing and when you have belief in your coach, team mates and the game plan, this can be a massive factor in grinding out a win or turning around bad form.
There is no doubt in my mind that North needs to set itself to rebuild from the base with the view of building a team that can vie for a premiership in 5-10 years and the basis of this is the draft.
No matter what your view of Brad Scott is as a coach, the reality is that this will be his tenth season and if this bold rebuild is undertaken is he the right man to do this, can he reinvent himself bring in fresh ideas, introduce more dynamism etc? Many would argue that with a new approach, would herald the opportunity for new management ie coach, list manager, football operations etc
The question is whether the club’s senior executives will have the courage to make this bold change and risk (?) the impact on membership or whether it will continue to take the safe option and hope that the team as is will evolve into a premiership contender. For the sake of the club and its supporters, I’m hoping for the former rather than the latter.
For the North Melbourne rebuild, the worst is yet to come
Great article and I agree the draft seems to be the ideal path to build a strong team that can contend. Having said that would be great if we could pick up a good small forward that could pinch hit in the midfield and I agree with previous comments that Sam Gray would be a target from my perspective. The other position would be to get another quick and classy midfielder and there has been some talk that Melbourne might consider offloading one of theirs. I’d go all in to try and get Angus Brayshaw, strong North pedigree although it may be hard to secure him with available draft picks
North Melbourne must fix dud drafting to end the mid-table madness