06-20-2021, 05:41 AM
(06-20-2021, 05:34 AM)LP link Wrote:@madbluboy
Yet yesterday in the commentary I heard the "experts" state we were now paying the price for gifting those guys too many games when they weren't ready, hadn't earned it and weren't performing!
I've heard a few state that recently, including Jordan Lewis, Leigh Matthews and Wayne Carey, it's obviously an opinion circulating through the industry.
I think if you play them and they get beat up week after week it actually sets them back regardless of whatever ability they have!
I'm not sure that's the whole story. There are still several inaugural GWS players in the system, both at GWS and elsewhere. They used to cop awful hidings back in the day - they're playing good footy now.
The problem IMO is the instability and flip flopping between one approach and another. Teague (who should know better IMO), has stated publicly on more than one occasion that earlier (read : under Bolton), we were gifting games to kids and that is no longer the case. How would you feel if you're LoB or Dow hearing your coach say that ? Quite apart from that, who should've got games ahead of them ? Matt Shaw ?