03-01-2018, 11:39 PM
(03-01-2018, 11:28 PM)LP link Wrote:Posters are all over this result like a rash, but it's JLT, it's JLT people.
The media are all talking up the strength of the squads, but.....just looking at our squad alone.
Docherty
Weitering
SPS
ACoS
Williamson
Rowe
Lang
O'Shea
All were not playing and I suspect they are all "currently in or around" the best 22 we can field when they are fit and ready.
Personally, I'm hope we take a horses for courses approach, and mix and match our selection heavily based on opponents. It's the one thing AFL teams should be capable of given their list size, and the one thing coaches and match committees do not do very well.
Kids like Dow and O'Brien might be specials, but they are going to fade through the season, even someone Cripps size and strength struggled/faded through his first real season. He was probably lucky he broke that leg, it seems to have changed his trajectory compared to the general playing population, and we think of his second season as his first. But in reality his first senior season came after two full pre-seasons.
The rigors of AFL will get them, they are just kids and the first game is always a high.
Agree....horses for courses is how it should be and no doubt Dow, OBrien etc will need to be managed at stages as the season gets longer and young bodies tire.