Originally Posted by
jloome
That shit is all meaningless now anyway. The between-the-lines was clearly that the balance in the room was wrong, and he was upset about his father being let go. Both of these are obviously true statements.
People will read in the subtext that he thinks his father wasn't the problem. But we have no idea what his mindset is. Perhaps he 100% advised his father on the 18 players we've shed since Bob came onboard leaving and didn't think much of them, so he's unable to recognize that the build of the team -- with far too many overpriced older players and no real second team -- significantly contributed to all of this.
Or perhaps he recognizes that but thinks they could've improved if the DPs were carrying them more.
But it doesn't really matter. At the end, the roster imbalance was our biggest issue. Yes, our DPs underperformed, but that's only a major issue when the rest of the team doesn't perform at all.
When you take out the DPs and TAM players, we had the lowest-paid and youngest starting roster in the league. Given that most of the TAM players were injured for at least half the season or moved by the club to save money, we effectively had eight or nine players in every game who wouldn't normally start in this league, as they are too young, inexperienced and tentative.
Everyone deserves some measure of blame for this debacle of a season. Subdividing the level of blame at this point, with one meaningless game left, is pointless.
So I'm just going to watch the game to see MB play one last time, hope Herdman gets a little more out of them... and pray for a decent offseason.