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

[PassIt2Carrots]

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.

But who said the side wouldn't be serious about winning? You are serious every time you go out regardless of players picked. You are not focusing on losing by picking the kids, you are focusing on development, which is what a rebuild is.

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

GC are struggling because they made a terrible decision at board level, much like us. GWS are progressing because they went with the kids early (whether by choice is up for debate) but the fact remains that those kids have now played around 60-70 games each and are ready to blossom. Getting the games into those kids, collectively, will make all the difference in the long run, whereas having lost all those games badly early will have made no difference at all.