GWS wrote:
Melvey wrote:
Here's how i look at it. Just say last year we appointed John Worsfold or Mark Williams who have an outsiders view and rate who is any good or no good. Would either of them play Simon Wiggins, Jordan Bannister, Ryan Houlahan or Adam Bentick..... me thinks not then why do we persist, for team moral?? if these guys can't handle the heat then get out of the kitchen
Did you see the first few years of Ratten's playing career Melvey?
Before 1995 Ratten played 72 games over 5 years of pretty ordinary football.
In 1995 he played every game and won a best and fairest in a premiership team.
Bentick's now played 60 games in four and a half years.
Players do improve over the course of their careers but based on your logic Ratten would have been axed in 1994.
i vividly remember ratt's first competitive hit out, perhaps an intra club game in 1990 or 91? he looked FANTASTIC! diesel-like ability to win the ball in tight and fire off a handball to a moving target. i remember making a HUGE song and dance about him to my filth mates ...
then, for reasons that now elude me (too much grappa over the years), ratts ended up taking a while to come on and become that player that had me salivating. my filth mates had a field day as they sarcastically enquired on the progress of this "latest carlton star" ...
ratts seemed to struggle as he served an initial apprenticeship as a back pocket. then judge convinced parko to move ratts into the midfield and the rest, as they say, is history.
my point is that ratts did actually show a huge amount of promise. somehow things stagnated a bit, perhaps it was due to us having established star midfielders thereby forcing him to play in unfamiliar roles.
bentick et al have never really suggested the sort of talent that i felt ratts had. bentick is a good kid who tries hard and kudos to him for that, but ratts to me looked like a special talent from day 1.
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