08-13-2016, 06:45 AM
Very ordinary performance from a team that is obviously tired and replete with ordinary players, who, if the club do what I heard they will do, will be cleaned out at years end.
The nucleus of a reasonable team is there. Weitering, Charlie Curnow, Silvagni and mackay who is going to be very good but is a good 12 months away in his development.. Phillips is good in the ruck, Ploughman will improve with a full pre-season under his belt, Sam Doc has come of age as a reliable defender and Cripps is/will be a champion. Buckley needs to improve his motor so that he can run out a full game, Cieren Byrne will be good if he can come back from the reco, and I hope Sheahan can come back. And that's about it.
Gibbs will play the occasional good game for his half million, Thomas is stuffed, Murphy is too injury prone, Touhey will play one good one and one bad one, and lacks a football brain. Ed Curnow tries hard, but his skills are terrible and he aint gunna get better. I don't reckon that there is a worse handballer in the team. Can't hit a target and more often than not the ball falls into the hands of the opposition and gives away stupid frees. Kreuzer tries hard, but I wish he'd gone to the Pies and we'd got some decent draft picks for him. He is very limited. Almost forgot. I'd get rid of Levi. Too one dimensional and unreliable.
White is a plodder, Rowe is an absolute spud totally lacking a second effort, in fact he lacks, for the most part, a first effort. Armfield, is coming to the end, and only plays in flashes. Bokehorst hasn't got it. Simple as that. Jones is useless, the jury is out on Cunningham, and Kerridge, lacks foot skills and doesn't give us enough. Wright is not up to it, he's certainly no BEtts!! Everett is gone and hopefully will go, Nick Graham, is a very good reserves player, not up to the big time, and I don't reckon Jaksch will make it. There are lots in the two's who who won't make it, and I can see at least 10 going at years end.
Simmo, I left for last, because he's just a champion player for this club, and I hope he can come up again next year and give us a good year.
The club, as I have been told, are in year one of a three year plan, or as one high up told me, 21 games into a 66 game rebuild.
We just need to be patient and realistic, and not look at them through navy blue and white blinkers.
Believe me, the coach knows exactly who he is dealing with and exactly who he has got.
As one member of the panel told me, " at this point in time,we MIGHT have 4 players who could get a game with the three top teams, and that's it." He didn't want to name them.
So lets hope they finish 15th, get some decent draft picks and SOS can trade well, and let's all look forward to a better future.
The nucleus of a reasonable team is there. Weitering, Charlie Curnow, Silvagni and mackay who is going to be very good but is a good 12 months away in his development.. Phillips is good in the ruck, Ploughman will improve with a full pre-season under his belt, Sam Doc has come of age as a reliable defender and Cripps is/will be a champion. Buckley needs to improve his motor so that he can run out a full game, Cieren Byrne will be good if he can come back from the reco, and I hope Sheahan can come back. And that's about it.
Gibbs will play the occasional good game for his half million, Thomas is stuffed, Murphy is too injury prone, Touhey will play one good one and one bad one, and lacks a football brain. Ed Curnow tries hard, but his skills are terrible and he aint gunna get better. I don't reckon that there is a worse handballer in the team. Can't hit a target and more often than not the ball falls into the hands of the opposition and gives away stupid frees. Kreuzer tries hard, but I wish he'd gone to the Pies and we'd got some decent draft picks for him. He is very limited. Almost forgot. I'd get rid of Levi. Too one dimensional and unreliable.
White is a plodder, Rowe is an absolute spud totally lacking a second effort, in fact he lacks, for the most part, a first effort. Armfield, is coming to the end, and only plays in flashes. Bokehorst hasn't got it. Simple as that. Jones is useless, the jury is out on Cunningham, and Kerridge, lacks foot skills and doesn't give us enough. Wright is not up to it, he's certainly no BEtts!! Everett is gone and hopefully will go, Nick Graham, is a very good reserves player, not up to the big time, and I don't reckon Jaksch will make it. There are lots in the two's who who won't make it, and I can see at least 10 going at years end.
Simmo, I left for last, because he's just a champion player for this club, and I hope he can come up again next year and give us a good year.
The club, as I have been told, are in year one of a three year plan, or as one high up told me, 21 games into a 66 game rebuild.
We just need to be patient and realistic, and not look at them through navy blue and white blinkers.
Believe me, the coach knows exactly who he is dealing with and exactly who he has got.
As one member of the panel told me, " at this point in time,we MIGHT have 4 players who could get a game with the three top teams, and that's it." He didn't want to name them.
So lets hope they finish 15th, get some decent draft picks and SOS can trade well, and let's all look forward to a better future.