Blue Sombrero wrote:
People all over the forum saying this player or that player is a spud, is no good, is useless and so on. Look at what happens to spuds when they go to a team with support around them. They suddenly have a bit of extra space, a bit of extra time. They also have a bit of extra confidence. We need to develop the team around the so-called spuds to get to a level where they can strut their stuff. SPS is a classic example. Every commentator in the game says he is a super talent but because he hasn't won the Brownlow yet, he is getting calls here to be dropped, that he's soft. Dow is already 'Russell MkII' on some thtreads.
Much has also been said in various threads of our raiding the GWS fringe players and picking up rejects from clubs performing badly.
The GWS fringe players would have been picked up early by any of the other clubs had they had access to the compromised draft. If you can't get a regular game in the GWS midfield (see Kennedy) or the Geelong midfield for that matter, that doen't make you a second rate player. It means you can't force Dangerfield, Ablett, Selwood and co into the seconds. (Enter Lang).
Recruiting players from a poorly performing team doesn't mean they are no good. We raided teams for years and won flags with players from Fitzroy, South, StK, Sydney and Geelong. Now they raid us in return or pick up our discards and get spuds like Betts, Garlett, Waite, Sauce, Grigg, even Holman. Grigg was lambasted here for ages as useless before going to Richmond, becoming one of the biggest uncontested possession winners in the AFL for a time and now winning a flag. Spud. But Collins went OK.
Give the team a chance. Not every player we pick will make it but that doesn't mean none of them will.
stop making sense
hope you are well though