Its interesting looking at our history. Neesham built a team from misfits and WAFL players, we were different exciting, Ok we didnt make finals but we did Ok.
I will skip the Drum years.
We then go Connolly again we were able to embrace quirky and different. We had some success but were inconsistent.
Then Harvey came olong, not sure what happened there seemed to be going Ok but then the wheels came off but also the reign of the Steves began.
From there we seemed not to be able to embrace the eccentric and different, you had to fit the mold.
Guys like Simpson, Barlow, McCarthy Hogan just get spat out, I would like to think that Neesham and Connolly and possibly Harvey would have got more out of these guys than Lyon.
Seems JLo is cleaning out the closet but I hope he doesn't throw out some gems and shows in time that he can embrace the quirky personality and we dont end up with robotic clones. As a footy club we used to embrace diversity lets hope we get there again.