2017 Round 6: Post game Awesomeness

[kruddler]

I'll put my hand up.

I didn't understand his recruitment then, and in context of where we currently are, it barely makes sense.

Playing a sterling match in his first game is much more than I expected from him, and I thought it would be a waste of time and position.

I'll concede that I was wrong.

I still don't understand why we needed to do this, instead of a youngster.

This is where i'm at with the whole situation.

No doubt he played a blinder. But long term, if we continue to play him, blokes like Macreadie will be left out because of it. Is that what we really want?
Our backline is already the most experienced part of our team with Simpson and Rowe marshalling the troops, B+F winner Docherty playing beyond his years and steady partners in crime Marchbank and Plowman looking settled. A. Silvagni is not really required down there for experience.

As best i can tell he was recruited simply to play on Buddy. Club put up a video during the week showing he's done it before. What now?

[kruddler]

It's why that balance of senior and younger players is important...as long as you have the right type of senior player.

I'm an advocate of this, and certainly the right type of player which COS appears to be. But we need a COS for the forwardline, not the backline. The backline is pretty solid already.
Could we not have recruited a 'COS forward equivalent' instead?

[Gointocarlton]

I barely watched him at Freo, so I also had no idea.

It's not a knock on the kids. You have to be realistic about what they can and can't do. That chase down in the goal square (with Willo) was team lifting stuff.

Pauly he had the of the crowd around me in a frenzy every time he did something. We stood and clapped every one of the efforts. It was evident too his teams appreciated the efforts also, they came from all parts of the ground to pat him on the head.
Just on the point of camaraderie, it was at a level Ive not seen at our club in a long time yesterday. Every big effort or special play was met with encouragement from many players coming in from everywhere, young and old. I was very pleased indeed to see this.

[Gointocarlton]

I'm an advocate of this, and certainly the right type of player which COS appears to be. But we need a COS for the forwardline, not the backline. The backline is pretty solid already.
Could we not have recruited a 'COS forward equivalent' instead?

Listening to the various post match pressers, it seems he is affectionately known around the club ASOS.

[PaulP]

If what Bolton said last week is true, about players getting picked on form, then Alex will be first picked next week. You cannot have both a "picked on form" and a "play the kids" policy. The kids will not always be in form, and will not always be able to do the job. 

[LP]

Listening to the various post match pressers, it seems he is affectionately known around the club ASOS.

It's ACoS, as in Alex Cousin of SOS.

They pronounce it "ACEoS" as in AC/DC, it was given to him as a nickname by Murphy!

[Gointocarlton]

If what Bolton said last week is true, about players getting picked on form, then Alex will be first picked next week. You cannot have both a "picked on form" and a "play the kids" policy. The kids will not always be in form, and will not always be able to do the job.

If you listen to his post match interview with Debolfo, at the end Tony mentioned the Collingwood game and whether he is looking forward to it, Alex's reply suggested he is very confident of playing next week.

[Slugger]

Where do you fish Slugger

In the murray

[LP]

I want to ask a question about player ratings.

I hadn't looked at the official AFL player ratings until today, but as I understood it from the newspapers and websites like Foxtel, Murphy who has had a stellar start to 2017 was rated highly, some had him ranked 1st.

Today I go to the, AFL Schick Player Ratings and find Dangerfield ahead of the field by a 20% margin, Murphy is ranked in 153rd place!

By his standards and as rated by the media, Dangerfield is having an ordinary start to 2017 and is not even in the 2017 top 30, plenty of possessions but turning the ball over a lot!

I realise that there are significant differences in the way these systems work, for example the AFL system works on the last 40 games. But it seems the the AFL website is a little deceptive in that is doesn't represent form very well. You would have thought 5 or 6 straight weeks of high output at the start of a season should see a player rank fairly highly in the official system, especially given in AFL it is rare for any player to have more than 10 or 12 dominant games in any season.

[bratblue]

In the murray

Is that a secret spot?