Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

[Lods]

I'll answer your question with a question.....or questions.

If we draft a player who is a small forward. Has played small forward his whole life and wants to continue to be a small forward.
Then you pick him for the 1's......and you play him as a ruck. How do you think that player will go? How will his confidence go? How many games will he get before being dropped for underperforming? How will his confidence go after being dropped?

So why can't we develop players???

I'll see you that question and raise you another.
Who takes responsibility for that?
Is it the recruiting...I notice a few folks are now looking at Silvagni's time at the club a little more critically.

Is it the team selections.
I get that sometimes it's really valuable for a players development to play multiple roles.
You give a forward some time in the backline to develop a defensive side to his game.

But so many of our players seem to be 'playing out of position'.
SPS and Stocker strike me as more mid-field, or in SPS's case a mid/forward.
Kennedy is not a wingman by any stretch, yet seemed to be playing there in his last game.

How many in-game moves have we seen this season to shake things up a bit?
I remember McGovern in the backline for a spell but I think that was when Weitering was injured for a bit.

I struggle to remember too many other in-game moves of significance.
We seem to set up and that's the way it stays.
But I'll stand correcting.