05-08-2015, 08:39 AM
Good changes, make sense. Fine that Graham gets an opportunity and may he make the most of it. Good to see Whiley get another crack. It shows that he is being backed and having a chance to go again. Good selection.
More broadly, the playing of all the youngsters, ready or not would be destructive. We should be trying to win every game by putting the best team on the field every week. Players should be dropped for reasons they can understand, and then only elevated when they have demonstrated that they have addressed the previous identified deficiencies. To give a player a go without meeting these requirements sets low expectations and double standards.
Anything other than this basic principle is folly. This is why picking Watson for example does not stack up. He has not demonstrated in the VFL the requirements to be elevated.
Carlton have been confused about this for years. It goes as far back as Gibbs and Murphy playing senior footy right away in their first year. We were terrible then, and it made sense for them to play. But longer term it has had a negative effect, in that it set low expectations for selection. Gibbs being annointed part of the leadership group in his first year heightened the entitlement.
Pick the best team each week. As you would if you were competing for a premiership.
More broadly, the playing of all the youngsters, ready or not would be destructive. We should be trying to win every game by putting the best team on the field every week. Players should be dropped for reasons they can understand, and then only elevated when they have demonstrated that they have addressed the previous identified deficiencies. To give a player a go without meeting these requirements sets low expectations and double standards.
Anything other than this basic principle is folly. This is why picking Watson for example does not stack up. He has not demonstrated in the VFL the requirements to be elevated.
Carlton have been confused about this for years. It goes as far back as Gibbs and Murphy playing senior footy right away in their first year. We were terrible then, and it made sense for them to play. But longer term it has had a negative effect, in that it set low expectations for selection. Gibbs being annointed part of the leadership group in his first year heightened the entitlement.
Pick the best team each week. As you would if you were competing for a premiership.