I get a bit of what GH is saying, but honestly it’s mostly bluster. We’ve had a bit of bad luck, some signings didn’t work out as well as they could do, but he’s polishing a turd by saying he didn’t really get it wrong.
To start with, we knew when the goldens were likely to finish, and also that it usually takes 5 years to sculpt a 16 year old into someone who might make the first team, so to have such a poor recent record with youth development since the goldens came through just smacks of arrogance or incompetence.
We lost big chunks of salary cap along the way and replaced them with championship quality in most cases, so either we didn’t want to spend the money, or we spent it foolishly.
Seems we are slowly getting onto the right track again, but to really recover from this takes 5 years minimum, with each of those years being critical.