04-22-2017, 01:32 AM
(04-21-2017, 02:06 PM)cookie2 link Wrote:We are faced with the problem of having to blood young players into an environment where our existing senior group has not been successful for a number of years and there are good reasons for that, one oft touted on this forum is that they didn't run both ways. So now they have to maybe work a bit harder to assist in developing those youngsters. I don't like having to play so many youngsters but that imo is the result of years of poor list management. We have to try and move forward and playing the non strategic players is not the answer. GWS had to do it albeit with draft advantages but they did it. And btw, I have no real beef with Rowe or Simpson.
The place to develop youngsters is in the VFL under the guidance of the development coaches. There is no AFL level acceleration, that is bullsh1t spread by media bullsh1t artists!
If kids are not ready for AFL you stall their progress by playing them too early, they become timid and start to question their own ability. They start to think they don't belong at AFL level and opposition clubs will everything they can to enforce that mindset. You can easily break them!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"