05-26-2018, 08:02 AM
(05-26-2018, 07:41 AM)Lods link Wrote:That was also probably the case during the Pagan years...with players like Murphy and Gibbs.
Would they have been even better players had they had a more gradual "education"?
Murph was knocked senseless in his early years.
I think it depends on the player.
Dow and O'Brien strike me as two who need (and thrive ) playing at the top level... but I'm not sure there won't come a time when they need to have a few games at VFL level... much the same as Silvagni is doing at present.
We just don't have the resources, if we drop them our senior side will be even more hopeless.
It's a Catch 22 I know, and largely of our own making.
The only thing in this world worth more than a hill of beans is the Carlton Football Club.