VFL Round #6: Northern Blues vs Essendon

[Thryleon]

We lost the last 4 games by plus 70 points.

Is that an overly simplistic view of it though?

We saw what happened when we chose that way of thinking about whether or not Watson should play vs Liam Jones, and sure, Watson gets the opportunity because he had averaged 3 goals a week in the VFL, but the results were not great.

We can all believe he deserves an opportunity, but if he wasnt playing to instruction, its only right the senior coach gets to use a benchmark for senior footy.

Depending on how you sit, this can be an argument all day every day, but at worst the senior coach must have the right to dictate these terms.  Given Laidler's tweet we know that he likely fought opposition from the playing group from day 1.  That was never going to end well.

Given our culture of the tail wagging the dog, this is a massive issue for us.