Anyone think that holding Moir back might have benefited him rather than gift him games when his performance and effort didn't warrant it?
His talent has never been the question. Hopefully the penny has dropped.
He is a player that our forward line desperately needs.
Perhaps.
Anyone think that giving him a game early on was a bit of a reality check to point out where he actually is in the scheme of things and give him something to work towards?
I think it was Vossy who said that he's always been very talented, but he needed to know how to work within a system. I think the earlier game was a good lesson to learn that talent will only take you so far. Playing as/within a team will give you more success.
There are enough public holidays on a Friday for it to be a thing.
When the competition expands again they'll need the timeslot.
I like watching on TV, I just can't attend. Now I'm not going to pay over $1500 a year for my family to be members if I can't attend most of the games.
Next survey the club does about membership and value for money etc, i am going to suggest some different packages to account for exactly this. We have 'home' and we have 'home and away' memberships. Surely we can have weekend memberships as well. I too, can not attend Thursday matches, nor can my kids who are also members. So its a complete waste. Either they find a way to sort it out or they risk a lot of people downgrading their memberships.
I view "gifting games" as "development" when you are selecting young players and at a time in the season where there is nothing to play for except the next season. eg Moir has been a banana in the twos and done SFA for most of the season and looked miles off senior footy but as we have seen with senior elevation he has shown way more in terms of effort and ability and probably saved his spot on the list. Surely we dont want to hand Port Adelaide a free KP Forward in Lemmey without seeing what he has to offer? Playing Lemmey will also have a flow on effect of telling Charlie, Harry and others that if your form and attitude is sub par we wont hesitate to make a change and bring in younger players. You build depth, competition for places and all the players know if they perform consistently they will be rewarded and everyone is equal in that regard.
moirs situation was/is not comparable. He was finding his feet and building. His last vfl game yielded 2.1 and 17 disposals taking 5 marks and 5 clearances in a narrow win against north.
To coin a Andrew Russell comment we must be trying to win every game because our lot are too used to losing and cant just turn it on when necessary so flirt with form at our peril.
7 goals 4 goals 2 goals 2 goals
That was the month before the Kangas game from Lemmey.
This is true, but if you are only giving him 1m inside the boundary line 40+m out from goal, and he kicks them both, im not sure a tagger is going to stop that.
Not even Kozzys shadow can stay that close to him.
I know he's in the gun at the moment, but i can't help but think if Acres was in the side, he would've got back and stopped a lot of these 'loose' dees players. We miss that defensive running
Motlop tackling and stopping a rampaging May left him grabbing at his arm/wrist. Hopefully he's ok as he looks better than Young, White, Evans, Fogarty combined.
Apparantly it was a dislocated finger, and its popped back in.
Motlop tackling and stopping a rampaging May left him grabbing at his arm/wrist. Hopefully he's ok as he looks better than Young, White, Evans, Fogarty combined.
Moir, again, showing why VFL form alone is not the only way to pick a side. He belongs at AFL level and is becoming more and more confident every week.
We can criticise the club for a fair bit this year but they've done a good job with Moir. We knew about that X factor. But his early game this year was a 1 kick 1 handball effort. And his early season form in the VFL wasn't much better. It wasn't so long ago he was running around in the VFL looking very unlikely. Then they gave him a bit of time on the ball and suddenly he looked a better more involved player.
A couple of games back in the senior side and now we're starting to see some of that early promise realised.
Yep. He looked gone for all money. However, a bit of confidence and a chance, and he is repaying us big time.
