VFL Round 8: Northern Blues vs. Coburg

[Thryleon]

No
Ahead of that must come which player offers the most in terms of value to the senior side.

Normally I'm all for rewarding effort.

Had Yarran sulked around in the VFL I'd support him having some more time at the lower level.

But
Ellard 23
Yarran 23

Which player is likely to reproduce that at senior level?
If we play a similar style of football to last weekend which player is likely to fit better into the senior team?

Yarran is at a really important stage in his Carlton career.
How we handle him could be the making or breaking of him as a Carlton player.
He appears to be playing angry and frustrated at the moment.
That seems to be showing through in his attitude at other times.(punctuality etc)

I understand the reasons for taking a stand and keeping him in the lower grade.
It might work.....but he might also drop his bundle in which case he's probably finished as a Carlton player.
Fair enough some might say.
That's the simple solution...pack him off.
We'll get something for him.

But if we play it the other way and promote him and support him through this period, getting him playing with a bit of enthusiasm again, the benefits to us are obvious.

At the end of the day it's really up to the "people managers" at the club and Yarran's own attitude.
We can't do much about the latter and we've proven to be pretty hopeless at the managing the "troubled player" side of things.

This is a bit of a test for the club.

Pay that as a reason why you would look at promoting Yarran, but I don't believe you would do it at the expense of Ellard as that does send the wrong message.

The team must come first, so if you were to promote Yarran on that performance, you would look at other places where things are not quite coming together and playing angry and frustrated may be one more reason to leave him in the VFL to help him calm down.  So you sell it to him differently regarding senior footy, and you tell him its a pressure release.  Go back to the VFL, enjoy your footy for a change, and the pressure is off regarding performing.  Just get out there, and enjoy yourself for a bit, and let us know when you are feeling better about playing senior footy and perhaps a little less frustrated.

For all we know, he is angry at the footy club for the decision making they have employed over the past few years for no result and gone regardless, in which case playing him now will not make any difference regarding what he does moving forward.