HINDSIGHT’S 2020 St Kilda’s 2020 was a masterclass in not only how to rebuild, but also how to effectively rebuild outside of the traditional draft avenues. I’ve talked about a few clubs who have butchered bringing in outside talent rather than drafting; Hawthorn is paying for it now, Fremantle was guilty of it for …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 North Melbourne learned a crucial lesson the hard way in 2020: you can’t half-ass a rebuild. Although Essendon’s streak of no finals wins was there for all to see (and more recently the repercussions of Sydney’s and Hawthorn’s reluctance to bottom out hit home in 2020), they still tried to cut the …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 The most succinct way to describe Melbourne’s season is “mediocre”. Much like ordering a tasteless mid-priced dish at a forgettable middle-class restaurant, the Demons were served exactly what they ordered with a mid-table finish. Beating just 2 teams above them on the ladder was balanced up by falling to 2 teams beneath …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 2020 was a dramatic retelling of the Tortoise and the Hare for Hawthorn, cast as the villains in the classic cautionary tale. They raced ahead to a 3-1 record that included victories over a top 2 side in Brisbane and the eventual Premiers in Richmond, before taking that fateful nap that resulted …
HINDSIGHT’s 2020 It was a rough year on-field for the Giants, punctuated by an even rougher off-season from a list management perspective. Not Collingwood levels – if the Pies were midnight on the Doomsday Clock, the Giants were still sitting around 11.45. But it was enough to put a scare through fans and GWS …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 The fantasy Gods giveth, and the fantasy Gods taketh away. The incredible start to Matt Rowell’s thrust the Suns into the AFL spotlight after years toiling away in relative obscurity. The promised “next step’ was materialising in front of our eyes, in the form of a cheeky but diligent ginger kid who …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 The Geelong Football Club. My nemesis. Famous for disingenuous late withdrawals, petulant team selection sheets and deliberately misleading injury reports, Geelong redeemed themselves by giving fantasy coaches and DFS degenerates plenty going the other way in 2020. The perfect figures of 1st in Points For and 18th in Points Conceded means you …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 Longmuir’s first year as Fremantle’s head coach was a rousing success, which is weird way to sum up a club’s progression from 13th to 12th on the ladder. But it’s true. 2020 was all about implementing a new gameplan with a young list, which amounted to basically tearing down all of the …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 Even before the excitement of the magical “6000 days without winning a final” barrier being hurdled over the weekend, piling the doom and gloom onto Essendon has become a cathartic social media exercise for many. And, to be honest, it wasn’t too hard to find material in 2020. The Bombers dropped out …
HINDSIGHT’S 2020 On-field, Collingwood’s season was satisfactory. They won an Elimination Final no one gave them a chance of walking away victors from (West Coast at Optus), while unearthing a talent like Daicos and overseeing defenders in Darcy Moore and Brayden Maynard taking their games to the next level with 40-man All-Australian squad honours …
