04-24-2017, 05:02 AM
(04-24-2017, 03:52 AM)LP link Wrote:I don't care who we picked, they were all appropriately rated by us and other clubs and they all failed to progress at our club including those players who left to improve at another club!
The fact that many left our club broken should be a warning to supporters about how our club develops younger players, and keep that in mind relative to our current youth tactics.
You can blame the list manager for some of the mix, but in those cases the coach also gets some blame, the list manager generally acts as instructed.
You can't blame the list manager for players who leave and get better, or players who fail to achieve / reach expectations, that is clearly not the list managers job.
Do you expect the likes of Cripps and Weitering to be re-signing three years from now if the sort of sh1te we currently deliver persists? Will they be physically and psychologically damaged beyond repair? Maybe they'll just be more busted kids on the way out by them!
If the club and players start to improve, doesn't that mean we no longer get low draft picks we say we need, or do you think we can improve with mid-range picks?
Do you really think Gibbs, Murphy and Kreuzer trades will attract low 1st Rnd picks?
It's only 2-3 years since GWS was experiencing similar thrashings to ours last weekend. GWS has now turned the corner and look premiership threats. We have to stick to the plan. I'm sure Bolton will rest players as they tire. That's why we have the likes of Palmer, Kerridge, Alex Silvagni, Thomas, Curnow (Ed.), Gibbs, etc. still on our list. Even GWS had to have some mature players to spread the physical workload while the young ones muscled-up.