03-03-2019, 12:23 AM
I watch these games with caution and pretty much use them only to get a decent look at the new players. Setterfield and Walsh both looked better then I expected. Having said like love beating those pr1cks even if its a nothing game.
Both above players looked calm with ball in hand are evasive in traffic and use the ball well. These 3 traits that are almost bloody hard to train into if you don't start with some of them. The top end midfield players usually have all 3.....and its exactly the quality you need when building a list capable of going all the way.
It's the very reason I struggle to see any future in players like Garlett, Polson and sadly even Lang I don't have much faith in. Its generally heart in the mouth stuff even when they have space and hold grave concerns this can be turned around. If after a few seasons at the top level you don't show at least some of these traits, you wont make it - players within out definitely don't make it in teams that go deep in Sept. It's as simple as that.
Therefore one thing I'm rapt with SOS work in the last few trade periods is we have a young midfield group of players that have this trait - Cripps, Dow, Walsh, Setterfield, Fisher and I would even throw in SPS and Cunningham.
We haven't had a midfield group with this sort of depth for decades! They are still young, will get better so wait till you get 40-50 games into the youngest of that group and watch out. It's within this group that you will see the wins coming from its where our biggest growth will come from IMO.
Both above players looked calm with ball in hand are evasive in traffic and use the ball well. These 3 traits that are almost bloody hard to train into if you don't start with some of them. The top end midfield players usually have all 3.....and its exactly the quality you need when building a list capable of going all the way.
It's the very reason I struggle to see any future in players like Garlett, Polson and sadly even Lang I don't have much faith in. Its generally heart in the mouth stuff even when they have space and hold grave concerns this can be turned around. If after a few seasons at the top level you don't show at least some of these traits, you wont make it - players within out definitely don't make it in teams that go deep in Sept. It's as simple as that.
Therefore one thing I'm rapt with SOS work in the last few trade periods is we have a young midfield group of players that have this trait - Cripps, Dow, Walsh, Setterfield, Fisher and I would even throw in SPS and Cunningham.
We haven't had a midfield group with this sort of depth for decades! They are still young, will get better so wait till you get 40-50 games into the youngest of that group and watch out. It's within this group that you will see the wins coming from its where our biggest growth will come from IMO.