Now lets go to Eddie Betts
Betts was fantastic last year.
So the club reward him with a $600000 a year pay packet.

Last year the Swans won the flag with a midfield of a dozen or so players who all do their job
run hard both ways
tackle
play inside and outside
they won with 3 goals from their key forwards in total

You need midfield depth that goes 10 or more deep or you are !@#$%& when it comes to competing in top 4 let alone winning flags


Geelong told Motlop last year that unless he improved his aerobic capacity and was able to be part of the midfield rotation he wasn't going to get a regular guernsey because the Cats realised that to keep pace with the top teams they had to improve their midfield depth.

Motlop has responded accordingly. The standards are high at Geelong because if they arn't they know that they will drop off the pace.


Now lets go to Eddie Betts
Betts was fantastic last year.
So the club reward him with a $600000 a year pay packet.
This despite the trends in the game I have just mentioned
This despite the fact that Betts hasn't proved himself in the midfield
And this despite the fact that he is 173cm

It is a situation that is seriously ridiculous.
Motlop would be on half that money.

This post isn't about slagging Betts
if the club offer him that money he should take it.
but he is crap in the midfield
and he has gone backwards up forward because opposition teams have worked him out.
Its about the people above him who have lower standards than others at similar positions of better run clubs who wouldn't allow this shit to happen.
That's CEO, development staff, coaches, player manager and ultimately it comes back to the board

I played golf today with a guy in Hawaii who is a CEO of a computer company in Wellington.
When we got off the discussion of the All Blacks I told him about the number of people on Carlton's board.
He looked at me and laughed when I said the number 13
That says it all
And that's why you ultimately get stupid situations like the one I have mentioned

Hopefully one day someone will run this club with some brains

You have managed to really top yourself today. An entire post based on total fabrication and BS about Eddie's pay packet. That 18 holes must have felt like 36 for your CEO BFF by the time you had bored him to death with your theories on all things Carlton FC.

Regards Cazzesman

Yep, $600k is just speculation but Keogh's point is valid in that we are being held back by the inability of our small fwds to run thru the midfield rather than the occasional chop-out.
Do our boys have any less talent than Motlop? I know this gets done to death but you have to sometimes wonder what Yarran would do in the Cats system?

Swans have 12 mids and they run the footy, hunt in packs and defend the entire ground.
MM has a game plan that involves defending and attacking along one side of the ground and centreing the footy at the F50.
If we had 12 mids, how would that work? he doesn't like players running with the footy because it upsets his forward setup if they have to keep moving as the ball carrier gets closer.
MM's game plan requires several mids and lots of utilities that can play different positions in the zone and contest a 50-50 situation.
When he wakes up to the fact his game plan is passe, he might recruit more mids and use space and pace a bit more.
It will be interesting to see which way he goes.
BTW, the Swans talls kicked lots of goals during the year and they went hard after the draft tamperer and got him. It isn't only about midfield rotations, not even there.

Great to see your still breathing Cazzeman
Its hard to swallow the truth isnt it

Betts's impact has changed because he isn't the main focal point any more.

We have two real KP's now so he needs to adjust.

Still works hard in his pressure acts.

With the right tools his game plan goes ok
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Swans have 12 mids and they run the footy, hunt in packs and defend the entire ground.
MM has a game plan that involves defending and attacking along one side of the ground and centreing the footy at the F50.
If we had 12 mids, how would that work? he doesn't like players running with the footy because it upsets his forward setup if they have to keep moving as the ball carrier gets closer.
MM's game plan requires several mids and lots of utilities that can play different positions in the zone and contest a 50-50 situation.
When he wakes up to the fact his game plan is passe, he might recruit more mids and use space and pace a bit more.
It will be interesting to see which way he goes.
BTW, the Swans talls kicked lots of goals during the year and they went hard after the draft tamperer and got him. It isn't only about midfield rotations, not even there.