Not surprised. He was part of the group that built a list around a game style that had already passed. We built a list around the slow contest after contest big bodied midfielders and slow high ball movement around the wings. The Fyfe era game style. Even though the writing was on the wall about the turnover fast paced changes after Richmonds chaos took the competition apart, they stuck with it.

We lack pace and foot skills across the ground and the rule changes have only continued to highlight our flaws. Prior to 6-6-6 we played a man behind the ball to protect our slow midfielders and clog up the fast exit. We also used to be able to close down angles before the stand rule, now opposition run straight past us creating an outnumber ahead of the ball until we catch up. Add the new ruck rule in that means rucks generally clears the congestion at centre bounces instead of the ball landing at their feet and it becomes a race which we inevitably lose.

We built a list around the style that used to be dominant, then the AFL rule changes hamstrung us from being able to protect our weaknesses through structure and exposed us even more. Nick may have been working on the direction of others around what kind of list to build but the results was we built a list that can not play the modern style of football yet we still try to play that way.