05-01-2021, 07:19 AM
Not a fan of co captains or the old pick your best player/s as captains either.
DJ makes a good point about Cripps wanting to do everything onfield but cut the oranges at the breaks, and its been a poorly managed situation without much guidance to either Cripps or Docherty.
Poor old Doc has battled on manfully with injury and illness and should have been rested from the burden IMO.
Sometimes as Collingwood and Geelong showed you pick a Joe average player talent wise but one who can manage and organise both on and off field well ie Maxwell and Harley and who all players/factions respect.
Looking back I think Ed Curnow might have been a good Maxwell/Harley for us and absorbed the pressure better....Cripps has almost become OCD like in his efforts to win games on his own and is murdering his own game as a result and just racking up the clangars. I know taking the job off Cripps might offend him and give him reason to doubt re-signing but I think someone close to him who he trusts has to tell him its time to concentrate on your own game and pass the baton on.
Maybe not to Walsh or Weitering either or though the latter seems the obvious choice. I have been having second thoughts seeing how much it has damaged Cripps and dont wish to pass the baton onto our young stars and mess them up either.
DJ makes a good point about Cripps wanting to do everything onfield but cut the oranges at the breaks, and its been a poorly managed situation without much guidance to either Cripps or Docherty.
Poor old Doc has battled on manfully with injury and illness and should have been rested from the burden IMO.
Sometimes as Collingwood and Geelong showed you pick a Joe average player talent wise but one who can manage and organise both on and off field well ie Maxwell and Harley and who all players/factions respect.
Looking back I think Ed Curnow might have been a good Maxwell/Harley for us and absorbed the pressure better....Cripps has almost become OCD like in his efforts to win games on his own and is murdering his own game as a result and just racking up the clangars. I know taking the job off Cripps might offend him and give him reason to doubt re-signing but I think someone close to him who he trusts has to tell him its time to concentrate on your own game and pass the baton on.
Maybe not to Walsh or Weitering either or though the latter seems the obvious choice. I have been having second thoughts seeing how much it has damaged Cripps and dont wish to pass the baton onto our young stars and mess them up either.