because we’re in a rebuilding stage? These notoriously take time and with a new coach we would have to restart the process.
Ah yes, rebuilding from those almighty highs we reached in 2018 under Mary's tutelage where we were '81 mins away from a grand final'.
Flanagan has been revered by many on here as the experienced, premiership winning coach we needed to correct course.
I still remember a notable apologist on here saying how the new coach would have an immediate impact, how everything changes with Flanno gets here etc.
Unfortunately none of those expectations/predictions have come about and now seemingly the apologist rhetoric is that we're in a rebuilding stage and Flanagan now needs a number of years to fix things.
Flanagan was given three years which is plenty of time to get the best out of the team. If we continue on this downward trajectory, serious questions will be asked in to next season and if/when that ends with him being sacked, we will know these last three years have been a complete waste.