"I can’t talk for previous administrations, but certainly in my time as a director or as the chairman, it’s the healthiest support around our senior coach by far," Brayshaw told the Herald Sun’s Mark Robinson before a scheduled Board meeting on the Spirit of Tasmania.
"It needed to get to this level, we’ve worked hard to get to this level, so we’re really pleased to give Brad what he needs to succeed."
Brayshaw said the signings of Geoff Walsh, Gavin Brown, Leigh Tudor, Ben Dyer and John Donehue haven’t exceeded the club’s budget, stating they’ve been brought in to replace those who have left including Donald McDonald (now commercial), Brady Rawlings, Brett Allison and John Lamont.
"We made a priority back in 2007, when our footy department spending was the lowest in the comp, that it couldn’t stay that way," Brayshaw said.
"It’s taken a while to get the expenditure to levels we’re really happy with, but we’re at 100 per cent of the cap for the first time in my time, and we’re also in a position to give Brad exactly the support we think he needs.
"We’re getting there, we’re not there yet."
With defence and tackling key areas for improvement, the Roos were proactive in headhunting Tudor and Donehue.
"The footy department did a full review at the end of the year and they identified Leigh Tudor as someone who we needed badly," Brayshaw said.
"We’ve been really careful about building for sustained on-field success.
"We don’t want to build for five minutes in the sun, we’ve borrowed heavily from the Geelong model, we want to put a system together behind an elite senior coach which will give our club five, 10 years of on-field success.
"We still have enormous work to do, but with each Geoff Walsh, but with each Leigh Tudor, and each Gavin Brown we appoint, we think we’re getting closer, and we think it’s exciting."
Brayshaw also hopes the off-field movement is bound to have a positive impact on the players.
"I remember back when we started in 2007, the facilities were not as good as a lot of amateur clubs and we were having to prepay to pay the minimum of the salary cap, Dean Laidley was operating with two assistants and one part-time, we had virtually no recruiting staff supporting our head of recruiting, we had no development, there were times back then when our footballers were legitimately questioning whether they were at the right club.
"There's no way they can question that now."
