04-01-2018, 07:16 AM
Two things.
1. We were dead last with a better team on the field three years ago.
2. These guys essentially have built this side that beat us from 2011 onwards. They have one of the games premier key forwards in his peak, a raft of talent all between 50-150 games with a couple of elders in the 200+ club and played about 4 players that were essentially newbies. Of those 4 players only two are relatively new to AFL with one of them being nick Holman.
They didn't go past us recently. They have a serious coach for the first time in their lives and they are hot to trot. We thought we went past them last year but the reality is we went backwards with the trading of Gibbs and when Charlie and cripps are 100-150 gamers that's when we will be where the Gold Coast is at yesterday.
Reality gives you a smack in the face sometimes. I think too many have been reading fly boys posts and had too large an expectation on this season because they think blokes that have shown a little bit are going to be seasoned performers. In reality it takes seventy games to show someone's stuff and our first year rebuild players like weitering and Curnow are only just starting to approach fifty games.
1. We were dead last with a better team on the field three years ago.
2. These guys essentially have built this side that beat us from 2011 onwards. They have one of the games premier key forwards in his peak, a raft of talent all between 50-150 games with a couple of elders in the 200+ club and played about 4 players that were essentially newbies. Of those 4 players only two are relatively new to AFL with one of them being nick Holman.
They didn't go past us recently. They have a serious coach for the first time in their lives and they are hot to trot. We thought we went past them last year but the reality is we went backwards with the trading of Gibbs and when Charlie and cripps are 100-150 gamers that's when we will be where the Gold Coast is at yesterday.
Reality gives you a smack in the face sometimes. I think too many have been reading fly boys posts and had too large an expectation on this season because they think blokes that have shown a little bit are going to be seasoned performers. In reality it takes seventy games to show someone's stuff and our first year rebuild players like weitering and Curnow are only just starting to approach fifty games.
"everything you know is wrong"
Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson