Re: Post Game Passion AFL Rd 10: Carlton vs St Kilda
Reply #216 –
So just how good is the list? I think this really needs consideration when folks are calling for the coach's head. I keep hearing we have a great list, the players are in place, but we keep losing and playing very ordinary football, therefore it's the coach's fault. Well yes we have a lot of first round draft picks, doesn't mean they are or will become good AFL players. At the moment how many of our players would get a game for a top 8 team?
Assessing the quality of our list is difficult.
Sides doing well seem to have plenty of good players but no matter how badly you're doing, many appear to not be up to it. Pretty ordinary players seem much better in say a Fluffy Ducks or Dawks environment. Sadly, potentially good players can look ordinary playing for a club with a poor culture/discipline.
In our one winning game for the year (thank you Dishlickers for having a down day), SPS, for example, looked a million bucks but in a pressure game you'd think he's playing with the flu - he's not the only one. It's more than reasonable to assume that a strong culture brings out the best in players and a p1ss weak culture ruins development and makes the good seem less than average.