(05-26-2019, 10:05 AM)Micky0 link Wrote:Didn’t bother watching the game, I’ve lost all optimism.
Sick of our first round picks not improving - I know it’s hard in a low team when you’re not surrounded by greatness but ffs what needs to happen here for anyone to improve?
Honestly, who has improved? Who is in charge of development?
Why doesn’t anyone want to take the game on and make a pact to work for each other? Sick of watching this stuff, don’t care what has to happen from here but officially I’ve lost my care about feelings or the right thing to do. I want to watch an exciting team full of young stars in the making and I’m seeing better at the suburban grounds on the weekend. Completely gutted and over it.
I said a while ago that maybe we would be better off developing two teams essentially; one is our temporary seniors and the other is our emerging team. The emerging team play together in the VFL and build success, get to know each other and their style, learn their craft and then transition into our seniors. This was a tactic used by the early Geelong teams prior to their successful run, Neil Balme once mentioned this in an interview.
Gary Ablett junior, Bartel and a few others were deliberately played and allowed to develop together before coming up from the VFL. They won the VFL premiership and experienced success together.
Why could we not follow this type of method?
Imagine Dow, O'Brien, Setterfield, Stocker, Walsh and Charlie Curnow playing enough games to qualify for the VFL finals, Lang, Kennedy and Polson could come up and may still even qualify if we manage their seniors time given they have played reserves already. We set ourselves the aim of top four VFL with a real tilt at winning it. It might also mean Walsh does not play too many games and could still win the rising star next year.
We would need to think about 'dropping' seniors at key times to ensure we win (add Kruezer in for a key game or two), play McGovern at CHF or CHB for a series of games or McKay for a burst here and there, given our predicament currently why not have a go and at least generate some positivity in the club.