05-20-2018, 08:33 AM
(05-20-2018, 08:25 AM)townsendcalling link Wrote:Other team drip feed their youngsters into the big time. We have to play them consistently on mass. If O’Brien or Dow had been at Geelong or Swans, they’d be rotated out and ‘managed’ by now for a few weeks. This attitude of ours goes back to Kruezer’s first year.
Fair point.....our senior players apart from a few are not good enough to carry the newbies, Saints have the same problems.....then you look at Stephenson from Collingwood who has been playing really well but its on the back of a dominate Collingwood midfield who can get him some easy ball and use his running strengths.
Dow and OBrien have to win contested footy at the coalface which isnt their job, they are creators/runners like Stephenson but forced to do it harder.....