I said you don't play them all at once, but at least give them a taste. There's enough matches left to do that rotating them through. Give them the exposure.
Football 2025 style means a single weak link and you'll concede chains of disposal, you have to be at least competitive on every line just to break even.
Even though finals may still be a statistical possibility it's a fantasy, and would have a nightmare end should we make it. Time to play the list...Lemmey's, Camporeales, O'Farrell, give Wilson and Young a few more games. Not all at once, but over the period.
It's no good forcing that sort of change on the senior team selection, then claiming results like tonight are the coaches fault.
The hard reality is, most of those names will struggle to play out a single full game let alone two or three in a row, and they'll have little to no AFL impact. I'm not even sure Lemmey could survive a quarter.
To top it off, I think our new fitness guru is dead-set rubbish, this is the slowest and most physically piss weak we've look for a decade.
I'm sorry, I'm all for the girls having an footy competition, but dal Pos as a senior mens Development coach, is someone taking the piss or is the club dead broke?
Apparently Jeff Bezos is being cancelled for spending his money, the world has gone mad, much better for billionaires to hoard it!
Does anyone else ponder how people living in Spain and the Greek Isles will make a living after they kybosh all the wealthy tourists, I mean they have already black banned immigrants, so where do they actually think some income will come from?
We play in too many close games and it amplifies the clangers made by players, but unfortunately it's risk and reward in close games, and you need the risk to come off to get a result. Clangers in a close game are the worst kind.
To all the Konstas boosters, he still hasn't fixed his technical issue against the off cutter. Not good enough.
Greens issue - just not good enough, full stop.
I've never really understood the hype surrounding some players, I don't see it much like I never got the hype surrounding Marsh. I suspect some of them have a CA angel boosting their stock.
In the past we've had quite a few who played a chaotic style like Konstas, Maxwell being the most obvious and he was kyboshed, what the difference between Maxwell and Konstas? Blokes like Maxwell, Walters before him, use to be the razzle dazzle in a rock solid list, now the squad is overloaded with pinch hitters and on a bad day they all strike out! It reminds me of that Billy Joel song, "Goodnight Saigon, We said we'd all go down together!"
Control and consistency have made way for peak performance. It seems the 1 in 3 or 4 good games when a player dominates is now enough to plaster over the in-between rubbish.
Eventually Pavlov's Dog will develop a prey mindset, fear of being a victim can be crippling.
The fans and media that pile on the players after a loss, they are part of the problem not part of the solution.
There is a difference between a technical or tactical debate, and blatant abuse.
For example, Mathieson's comments are destructive not constructive. In effect he spit in the face of players like Ollie Hollands, Lachlan Cowan and Jagga Smith. Ollie Hollands in particular is starting his career off better than a previous 300 gamer like Kade Simpson, yet Mathieson gave OH a drive by at the first opportunity.
I think one of our biggest problems, and also our most predictable weakness, is finding a role for Saad that leaves him free to make use of his heavily one-sided run.
It's just too easy for him to be corralled by the opposition, and that forces him into a soft disposal that often is a pre-cursor to the turnover.
Don't get me wrong, I love his ability and attack on the footy, he does the sacrificial things as well as anybody. But it's no good fans clapping his intercepts and attack at the footy if his next disposal puts a team-mate in the hospital zone.
Opposition actively create these scenarios, our MC needs to solve the puzzle.
It's a proper joke, and Xerri being the target makes it an even bigger joke given his mode of operation is targeting opponents in this very manner with borderline sling tackles and massive bumps off the ball.
How does Xerri get through a game without penalty for throwing TDK into the fence? The AFL media are beating up on Cripps and other players for not flying the flag when Xerri did what he did, which apparently was nothing according to the MRP! And who is the main protagonist in the AFL media, a former Norp legend?
I have to wonder what Cook thinks of all this, when he sees the way our club gets treated compared to his experience at the Geelong!
