07-24-2021, 11:17 PM
Like many others I wasn’t surprised at what we saw yesterday and the two most important that need to be fully explored by the current review are list management and strength and conditioning.
We entered the year with no third ruck, no key defence backups (we’ve actually been very very lucky here) and no back capable of playing on pacy small forwards. We’ve also invested an extraordinary amount of the salary cap in very few, which will get worse when we sign Walsh.
Our strength and conditioning is so far off the pace it’s not funny, and if Teague is to be sacked it should be for continually expressing faith in our “high performance” strength and conditioning team - surely Teague understands that it’s him or the fitness team that is going to go??? If not, that’s a bigger concern.
We can’t accept the lack of durability across our playing group over the past 2-3 years and we’ve got some structural issues to balance player payments across our list which means that our bottom 5-6 are not afl standard every time our injury list hits 5 or more.
Adding to all of the above, we’ll never get anywhere running out with the likes of all Casboult, Setterfield, Murphy, Plowman, Newnes, Newman, E Curnow, McDonald - all of them just aren’t up to it.
Of players with currency I’d be moving on McGovern (mistake) & SPS during the trade period.
A bit to do.
We entered the year with no third ruck, no key defence backups (we’ve actually been very very lucky here) and no back capable of playing on pacy small forwards. We’ve also invested an extraordinary amount of the salary cap in very few, which will get worse when we sign Walsh.
Our strength and conditioning is so far off the pace it’s not funny, and if Teague is to be sacked it should be for continually expressing faith in our “high performance” strength and conditioning team - surely Teague understands that it’s him or the fitness team that is going to go??? If not, that’s a bigger concern.
We can’t accept the lack of durability across our playing group over the past 2-3 years and we’ve got some structural issues to balance player payments across our list which means that our bottom 5-6 are not afl standard every time our injury list hits 5 or more.
Adding to all of the above, we’ll never get anywhere running out with the likes of all Casboult, Setterfield, Murphy, Plowman, Newnes, Newman, E Curnow, McDonald - all of them just aren’t up to it.
Of players with currency I’d be moving on McGovern (mistake) & SPS during the trade period.
A bit to do.