08-07-2018, 04:16 AM
And we have come full circle again.
We have gone from trading out to mature aged players to get first round draft picks in, to becoming impatient for those kids to kick on and become players, and wanting to bring in mature aged players, to play at the expense of the kids and calling the club a huge fail.
News flash, we are where we were in 2015, exactly and have done a hell of a lot to renew the list, to setup us up for the NEXT 5 years, not the past 3.
Sure we wanted better out of our players, but the reality is, we got exactly what we were asking for and at very least this time we are going to finish bottom young with promise for the future, rather than old and wondering where our next tier of talent will come from.
As for not setting up properly, I would love to know what everyone's sweet spot of age vs inexperience is. Its very easy to pot the club, but we have been minus Sam Docherty all season, and his backup all have either been injured or not up to it.
As for Cam O'shea, don't look solely at what he has done for our seniors this year. In future, players will come play in the Northern Blues, with the hope to replicate what he managed to do and that was restart his AFL career. He has had plenty of opportunity and not taken it, but others will see it and hope they can do similar, and its for that reason, he should get one more year on the list, as insurance and to play VFL footy.
Sometimes we undervalue what people can do for us, and we as a footy club have been guilty of that sin for the last 20 years.
We have gone from trading out to mature aged players to get first round draft picks in, to becoming impatient for those kids to kick on and become players, and wanting to bring in mature aged players, to play at the expense of the kids and calling the club a huge fail.
News flash, we are where we were in 2015, exactly and have done a hell of a lot to renew the list, to setup us up for the NEXT 5 years, not the past 3.
Sure we wanted better out of our players, but the reality is, we got exactly what we were asking for and at very least this time we are going to finish bottom young with promise for the future, rather than old and wondering where our next tier of talent will come from.
As for not setting up properly, I would love to know what everyone's sweet spot of age vs inexperience is. Its very easy to pot the club, but we have been minus Sam Docherty all season, and his backup all have either been injured or not up to it.
As for Cam O'shea, don't look solely at what he has done for our seniors this year. In future, players will come play in the Northern Blues, with the hope to replicate what he managed to do and that was restart his AFL career. He has had plenty of opportunity and not taken it, but others will see it and hope they can do similar, and its for that reason, he should get one more year on the list, as insurance and to play VFL footy.
Sometimes we undervalue what people can do for us, and we as a footy club have been guilty of that sin for the last 20 years.
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Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson