Lambs to the slaughter.
In a previous post, TOWNSENDCALLING, mentioned that we're not sliding in a couple of newbies amongst hardened senior footballers... spot on. We have a team of newbies crying out for direction/leadership where there simply isn't any, or precious little. The real danger in this is that history will repeat... newbies brought into a losing culture run the very real risk of ending up learning how to deal with failure/don't know how to win. Addressing this requires superior coaching and all round club culture to avoid having a group of 'potential' who never realise what they could achieve.
Rowe and ASOS are more important in this side than many may realise. They're both strong, hard and vocal. Sadly there's not much more than a season or two in each of them.
Murphy is not a leader and as such his loss wasn't significant, however, as a player, his loss was significant - but nowhere near an 86 pt difference.
Cripps is getting frustrated with the lack of support, but he really is growing nicely as a leader... please don't dampen that dash of mongrel he's got CFC, just direct it.
Daisy really stood up as a leader and player last night.
Jones is a one dimensional player who has been worked out by opposition clubs. Someone suggested he should be loose on the backline to play on instinct - absolutely, and it's the only way he can play.
Weitering needs a break, his head aint right, and wheeling him out each week is only setting him up for more failure and self-esteem issues .
We have plenty of blokes taking the field who fly in the face of BBs mantra of only playing blokes who have the form... clearly Garlett, Mullett, O'Shea, Weitering and even Kennedy, don't/haven't show enough to suggest they're in form or up to footy as this level... BUT the cupboard is bare in terms of replacements.
Kreuzer needs a rest, he's a shadow of last year. Marchbank and Kennedy worry me in terms of being glass men. (I watched Tomlinson and Hopper yesterday and dreamt of what could have been!).
So last night we carried into the game plenty of blokes who are in average or less form, or are deeply inexperienced (in terms of AFL footy and/or understanding our game plan), injured or just not up to it... recipe for disaster - an 86 pt disaster.
Phillips and others... please show something in today's NBs game!!!!!
In a previous post, TOWNSENDCALLING, mentioned that we're not sliding in a couple of newbies amongst hardened senior footballers... spot on. We have a team of newbies crying out for direction/leadership where there simply isn't any, or precious little. The real danger in this is that history will repeat... newbies brought into a losing culture run the very real risk of ending up learning how to deal with failure/don't know how to win. Addressing this requires superior coaching and all round club culture to avoid having a group of 'potential' who never realise what they could achieve.
Rowe and ASOS are more important in this side than many may realise. They're both strong, hard and vocal. Sadly there's not much more than a season or two in each of them.
Murphy is not a leader and as such his loss wasn't significant, however, as a player, his loss was significant - but nowhere near an 86 pt difference.
Cripps is getting frustrated with the lack of support, but he really is growing nicely as a leader... please don't dampen that dash of mongrel he's got CFC, just direct it.
Daisy really stood up as a leader and player last night.
Jones is a one dimensional player who has been worked out by opposition clubs. Someone suggested he should be loose on the backline to play on instinct - absolutely, and it's the only way he can play.
Weitering needs a break, his head aint right, and wheeling him out each week is only setting him up for more failure and self-esteem issues .
We have plenty of blokes taking the field who fly in the face of BBs mantra of only playing blokes who have the form... clearly Garlett, Mullett, O'Shea, Weitering and even Kennedy, don't/haven't show enough to suggest they're in form or up to footy as this level... BUT the cupboard is bare in terms of replacements.
Kreuzer needs a rest, he's a shadow of last year. Marchbank and Kennedy worry me in terms of being glass men. (I watched Tomlinson and Hopper yesterday and dreamt of what could have been!).
So last night we carried into the game plenty of blokes who are in average or less form, or are deeply inexperienced (in terms of AFL footy and/or understanding our game plan), injured or just not up to it... recipe for disaster - an 86 pt disaster.
Phillips and others... please show something in today's NBs game!!!!!
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17