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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by kruddler -then how come you missed it the first time?
I get the grade 3 mathematical symbols, thanks.
You've made your stance clear, i get it.
Riddle me this. If his likelyhood of success follows the function y=1/x with x being time (that is, it gets closer to zero the further along you go) then why does he have a spot on our list?
This year has been by far his best year and its been so much better than previous years. Yes, i've watched him play this year. I have also watched him play years past, which is why i've seen such a big improvement in him this year, so what is the point of having him on a list, if he improves and STILL doesn't get a gig?
Its not like we couldn't find another small forward to put on the list instead of him, as is our way.
He was named as an emergency last week. If he is so far away, why do that??
Honestly, i couldn't give a rats behind if he is on our list next year or not. My issue is our MC fail to do anything remotely progressive and reward good form. Instead, we pick players who had good form, lost it, but now get a game because....why not.
Chances are Lemmey will go goalless for the next 2 weeks, and then get a callup where he will have zero confidence, completely out of form and have zero chance of success....and THAT will be when i say i told you so.
We do the same thing all the time. Ben Campo.....good form....not picked....now can't be picked, but will most likely get a game at the end of the year when he's had no form to speak of.
Last year it was Jaxon Binns. Was in form, lost it, then got a callup.
Year on year its the same. This year, its Lemmey......and to a lesser extent Ben Campo, but at least he's in his first year.
Again, I'm happy for lemmey to play, I understand why he's not.
In fact the thing you mention about player selection might be the driving reason behind the coach losing his job.
That being said, I dont see Sam Mitchell dropping James Sicily at the moment, and he has been very so so since he got injured. Im sure theyve got a young kid in decent form at box hill that could take his spot.
When push comes to shove this is not lemmeys year to shine at Carlton and I dont have the answers, I just know he isnt showing afl level quality in a vfl competition. Neither was mcmahon. Both have played 1 game respectively.
There's been plenty of players drafted who never fired their shot at afl level.
I didn't miss it the first time, just didn't comment on your opinion of the comparison. Given mcmahon is 2 years older, I would expect that to be true. So no point discussing it.
Again, it's not isolated to lemmey, but he highlights a greater issue at th3 club. We fail to rest stars or even average players and play in form kids when the opportunity presents itself.
Last year it was when we were 2nd with no I injuries and daylight behind us. We ran them into the ground and injured them and had nothing to show for it.
This year its while we had plenty of underperfoming / injured stars with very little to play for.....now nothing to play for but are still not giving in form kids a crack.
Look at someone like Geelong. Always introducing inform talented kids and resting about players when the opportunity presents itself.
Why are we so slow to follow this successful path?