Docherty standing down

[madbluboy]

As co captain.

Hopefully Cripps stands down next.

[madbluboy]

Rumour is Weitering will replace Docherty as co captain.

[LP]

Rumour is Weitering will replace Docherty as co captain.

Yes, I've heard that on radio last night, but I've also read around various chat groups that we may be looking at a whole new leadership group.

Personally, if we do not have a new leadership group I can't see us making progress. You can't allow what allegedly went down at our club to persist or it will eventually resurface the moment there is a new disagreement.

On Weitering as a favourite, I have a fairly good source in relation to things involving Weitering and so far I've heard nothing. That may just be due to the Xmas holiday period and Omicron, people might not have been socialising, but it could also be because Weitering doesn't leak!

[madbluboy]

I agree 100%

Weitering and Walsh are natural leaders and I don't see any reason why we should wait any longer.

[capcom]

Maybe there is no-one else outside those mentioned?  Pretty simple conclusion.

[kruddler]

Hopefully Cripps stands down next.

Will make it easier for us to trade him next year after his body breaks down again.

[LP]

Will make it easier for us to trade him next year after his body breaks down again.

It would make it much easier for coaches to maximise his game impact and style if he wasn't forced to set an example by chasing, or on the flip side if coaches and team-mates were free to berate him for not chasing!

He often doesn't chase, not because he doesn't have the will but because he's got no fecking chance of catching anyone, it's a bad look for the captain, so why the feck bother, why force him into a pointless energy sapping effort that delivers nada?

Can you imagine if Parko had forced Diesel chase/follow opposition rovers all over the turf? I mean, it's just pointless!

Give Cripps all the resource he needs to win the footy and use it, and do not run him into the ground trying to be something he isn't and never will be! We've got a Rolls-Royce, we can't be turning it into a Dune-Buggy!

[northernblue]

A mates son is managed by Cripps manager, last year he facilitated a meeting between them.
A topic of conversation was Cripps running patterns and the fact that he try’s to stay between the arcs and not get drawn to the wings…

[kruddler]

A mates son is managed by Cripps manager, last year he facilitated a meeting between them.
A topic of conversation was Cripps running patterns and the fact that he try’s to stay between the arcs and not get drawn to the wings…

Thats pretty obvious.

Look at his heat map for last year...



edit: It appears for some reason that is a generic heatmap.
Here is Eddie Betts for comparison

[ElwoodBlues1]

Cripps opponent is the problem, when it was just a designated tagger with no offensive skills we could get away with it but as soon as the smarter coaches started running their better players off Cripps thats when the trouble started. Means that players like Curnow, Hewitt, Kennedy have to be picking up Cripps slack and that might work against less talented teams but not the better midfields with more depth.