RD 7 : Blues V Giants (Pre-Match Pre-Amble)

[Vivian]

Once again you have totally failed to grasp the concept of a rebuild. A rebuild is not bout winning games, it's about sacrificing a few wins to get games into kids and accelerate their development. Have a read of LLT's post. Also take a look at GC and then GWS. GWS went with the kids and they are now reaping the rewards, with a great foundation of kids having played games (not wins) to build on. Have a look what Dennis did when he tried to make us competitive by playing and recruiting more hardened senior rejects. He set us back years.

If you think the concept of a rebuild is flawed that's fine, but don't sit there and try to tell me a rebuild is all about winning games first and foremost because that is just plain rubbish.

Pushing all that to the side, you simply cannot argue that malthouse is building towards anything other than a big pile of shight, when the team continues to regress at a rate of knots. If he is in fact trying to do what you say, he is failing dismally and as well as getting the method wrong, he has totally missed the mark. He has to go, and he will go.

I wasn't arguing that the approach is a raging success  )

But I think it is a better path than thinking a few games here and there being lost, but providing experience to young players is a good thing. Yes a young player will get 100 minutes of football. But in a side that he knows is not serious about winning. Seems a good way for players to then play for themselves and not the team. It creates self preservation and entitlement.

GWS and GC both had lists of young players and indeed were stacked to the gills with them. GWS have however put some more experience in, and not put too much store in a Gary Ablett type to generate success. It may be working as GC seem to be demonstrating some problems that comes from a bunch of talented juniors getting games and then not progressing and

There are a lot of moving parts in this caper so much to wrong and right. But a few clear consistant principles is one way to deal with this, i.e. picking the best team to win each week. Behave as you want to be and it might happen.