I don't understand the knocks on Silvagni.
By any measure his work with GWS was a massive success and whilst it is too early to measure his work at Carlton, they are certainly headed the right way.
Definitely far from the worst list manager going around.
Getting over ruled on recruits by the coach, not seeing eye to eye with the CEO, guaranteed recipe for disaster. Bloke had first dibs on a smorgasboard of picks to set up GeeWhizz. Then he went to Carlscum n brought a heap of scraps n leftovers from the GeeWhizz smorgasboard to Carlscum. He's also had a *smile* load of first or second picks to build with since he got back to Carlscum n the nuffers are still dragging their raggedy arses down the bottom of the ladder. They might get a couple of youngsters start to announce themselves next year, but at the same time the likes of Murphy, Simpson, Kruez n Eddie are pretty much cooked. Even Casboult, Eddie Curnow n Jones aren't that far off old, so whatever they gain through youngsters coming through n stepping into senior leadership will be negated by the old farts dropping off.
Pity he's packing up the kit bag n farking off, I wouldn't mind him staying on for a few more years. Certainly hasn't transitioned their playing list to potential finalists in his time there. More like from inept toward mediocrity. Hopefully short term before they slide back to inept.