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Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
Maybe when you are my age -
Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
My stance is also informed by the fact we need to make the playoffs next year. I feel like thatās an incredibly fair bar for Adams and this regime, but regardless, itās my bar. @DarthEbriatesaid something to me recently and it was a good reminder and hit home. At some point, it becomes my own fault for putting up with it. My line is 5 years. If we canāt make the playoffs next year and Adams retains his job, I am going to cut ties for my own sanity. Iāll always be a āfanā and theyāll always have a place in my heart but, I canāt in good conscience continue following and contributing to the fandom (and this board) like I do (for some, this will undoubtedly represent a vast improvement to their fandom) I wouldnāt blame you at all if you choose to disregard my stance in totality because Iām funnelling it so throughly through the prism of needing to make the playoffs next year. Itās certainly a bias. But itās admitted bias, itās out there in the open. Feel free to call me out on anything that isnāt congruent. In my favour, Iāve maintained that as the objective line well before I made it personal Ill be angsty until we make it this season, or are eliminated: Iām putting that aside willingly once the offseason/next season starts: Iām sure as shite not spending my last season around here wallowing. Itāll be a fun year and we will either make it, or not. i may not be a āseason ticket holderā but Iāve been signing up for a front row seat for 3 decades. It represents no one but myself but as a die hard fan, this is my feeling at this time -
Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
Yes, your entire plan of action is informed by such a different philosophical stance to mine I canāt even begin to address it on a point by point basis, it would just be a waste of both our times. You start out by looking for reasons why we need to keep each player, I start out within a stance that any asset is on the table in the name of securing a playoff spot next year i donāt see it as a scenario where we are ācashing in the futureā because a couple moves, regardless of what prospects we pay, isnāt going to severely handicap our future. The misnomer is that we need to āsell the farmā. No, we just need to budge a few times. -
Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
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We can start with winning our next 5 games and pushing this streak to a 6 gamer. At that point if we get lucky 91 makes it (with our tiebreaker) and 8-4 over the final 12 id call doable given the kind of play weād be seeing. So weād need to go 8-4 (what are the odds?) and then probably a 50/50 shot at best 91 gets in. Weād need those 2 things to happen but Iād call them āpossibleā. There would he belief there, however unlikely. But thereās no belief without that 5 game win streak, better start there. And itās the hardest of the 3 to accomplish We assuredly canāt lose 2 games in the next 5. 4-1 is the bare minimum. 2 losses in the next stretch would have us needing like 10-2 to wrap up, but realistically, 11-1. Not gonna happen. They have to go 4-1 over next 5, minimum
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What are the odds we can go 11-3 after doing so? Thatās probably about what the math would tell you we can only afford to give away 6 more points this season over the remaining 17 games, if the cut off stays at 93 It could potentially fall, but it wouldnāt be more than a point or 2 If we win the next 3 weād have to go at least at least 10-4. But that probably doesnāt get us in
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Dahlin
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Ftfy
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The lack of urgency in addressing that hole for a team that hasnāt made the playoffs in a decade was absurdly troubling āoh, heāll be back mid seasonā. As if the games beforehand donāt represent crucial, unmissable points to this team
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Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
As far as your argument goes itās fine. I agree they were in shambles relative to expected results. I donāt agree we were in shambles relative to turnaround to achieving success: that seemed to be the way KA was using it: as an excuse. āLook, it takes a long timeā Only by way of choice only by way of competence only a master of evil, darth -
Staying the course - Comments from Season Ticket Holder Q and A
Thorner replied to Derrico's topic in The Aud Club
Thereās āshamblesā based on expected performance and āshamblesā based on distance from success. I think my argument is consistent here because, even as captain of the āKA has failed so farā fan club, Iām also not the dude firing him and Iām also not the dude saying with a few prudent changes this canāt be turned around fast you are correct I wanted JB canned but thatās not the same thing as thinking the franchise was in shambles relative to turn around to success: merely by way of how much we had failed relative to expectations We absolutely should be a playoff team next year. We absolutely should have been this year. I wouldnāt be firing KA because heās fallen incredibly short, Iād be firing him because it would be incredible we fell short so many times when distance from success was imminently achievable I post a lot, Iām not sure how much more heavy handed I can be in driving home this point time and time again: the frustration comes from the fact this is ABSOLUTELY salvageable but we simply refuse to measure results in the now - - - Frankly, and this is based on league wise results of the past, solid past precedent: a team with the will to act, with that will informed by competence, is very rarely more than a single offseason away from reasonably fielding a playoff team when itās ~ a 50/50 proposition. And that team *should* be able to do it with 2 off seasons Nearly 70% of the current league hasnāt gone more than *2* seasons sans playoffs This will be Adamsā 5th offseason