Rd 20 : Pre Game thread - Carlton V Essendon

[Thryleon]

If Kreuzer doesn't come up, I'd be using Casboult and Jones to ruck and play forward.

I would like to see Bolton, somewhat unleash the boys a bit and release the shackles on the game plan we have. It;'s only going to hurt us IMHO from now until the end of the year.

I think some exciting brand of footy to ignite the boys and excite them, get them playing on instinct and use their natural talents, would be ideal right now. I don't think we necessarily need to wait until 2018 for this to occur.

Element of surprise also!

Would releasing the shackles be better for their education??

Or would it hinder the ability for players to learn our game plan??

Ratts won what he won because he released the shackles and told them all to stream forward.  We never reigned it back in again though, and players stopped developing and unless you hit the ground running playing a particular way, your education ended there.

We need to do whats in our best interests contest by contest, and not geared towards any other outcome but what is good for "insert players name" developement.

Harry has played two senior AFL games now.  He is applying learning of playing a certain way to his time at AFL level.  Now, he isnt the only one, but given how long it has taken some of them to come on, should we change it up just because the season is over??  Process over outcome.  We stick to the process to yield better outcomes.  Sometimes change will be mutually exclusive, and perhaps we will need to, but its not to "release" anything, but rather to stop people nullyfying our game plan.