No, this thread isn't about Sav Rocca.
It's about the knee-jerk reactions taking place around here. We play one NAB Cup game, experimenting with new structures and new players, which is one of the beauties of this pre-season competition, we lost by 2 kicks and suddenly our season is in crisis.
It really surprises me about the lack of thought and forward thinking of some people. One NAB Cup game has a tumultuous impact on an entire season of footy ahead? Give me a break. Young Henderson gets labelled as poor, having played only 15 games for the Lions and being used in defence for most of those games. People start to spew over Fevola now, yet they fail to realise that he had a quiet one last weekend aswell, and fail to guage the fact that most forwards struggle when the delivery into the forward line is average. Furthermore, Henderson is only 20 years of age, and he's at a new club having to adapt to the new players. But he's not playing like Carey in his heyday right away, so we may as well label him as a dud recruit and see the trade as a rip off. Again, pathetic.
We had several players out last night, including some of our running players and goal kickers such as Waite and Murphy. Not to mention the absence of Betts, Walker, Houlihan. These players inject some quality into our side, Waite provides us with run off the backline, and when he's not doing that he's kicking us some goals. Murphy became a goalkicker last year, Betts is dangerous around goal, Walker is exciting, and Houlihan still manages to come up with the goods around goal, evident in our final against the Lions.
Then of course, comes the critisism of McLean. People need to learn patience and hindsight. Too slow, crap skills, not good enough. Again, another classic knee-jerk reaction. Give him some time aswell. He's coming into a new team for crying out loud. Don't see why we need to be jumping at shadows just yet. Looking forward to him having a great season and then all who abused him on last night's performance can have a look back on what they had to say of him based on a February practice match.
As some other posters have highlighted in other threads, it gets very, very, tiresome. People jumping to conclusions far too early, writing off their supposed "club of support", then jumping back on the bandwagon when the team starts to go alright. Not only does it make yourselves look bad, it reflects badly on the supporters as a whole aswell. Please don't turn us into the whining Collingwood stereotype supporters. If you guys are THAT convinced that we are going downhill fast, then why don't you just wait until May to buy a membership...see how the team goes, and if they're going well, think about buying one.
It really does my head in.
