Stamos wrote:
Gibbs was much better than Ellard or Curnow
That comment is just silly. Is that the pass mark for a #1 draft pick with 100 plus games now? To be better than a couple of fringe players?
It typifies what we have come to expect from Gibbs. A vanilla game from someone who was tipped (by the man he helped sack) to take the comp by storm this season. Well he had the chance as one of three players who have played all season but he did nothing all year to suggest his coach might make that statement. It is all very well to train the house down and have elite skills but what is lacking with Gibbs is located in his chest. Plus he couldn't give a stuff about the club or the coach or his mates. He just gets a lazy 25-30 a week, most of which are soft and then collects his pay. If he were working in a factory, that's be OK but he's working in a team-oriented business that just happens to play footy. If he were a fireman, he'd get kicked out in a heartbeat because his mates couldn't depend on him to run into a fire to save them if they got into strife.
If the new coach can't get him to play like he played as a kid, he will have been a wasted pick. He is playing like Houlihan, who went at pick 72 or something. Look at Simpson. Weighs 75 kilos wringing wet and never shirks the hard ball get. He hasn't got half of Gibbs's talent but he's first picked every week. I'd have Ellard in the team before Gibbs based on desire and Curnow isn't afraid to go in when it's his turn either. In an era where contested footy is king, both of those are better at getting the hard ball. Gibbs is an outside player atm and has to do better. That effort against Ablett last week was something a school footy team coach would have dragged a player for.
But we'll pick Gibbs this week because he was better than Ellard and Curnow last week. I'd have dropped him and given him six months to think about it.
Garlett is second on our goaq kicking and has a different role altogether. He's also a former rookie. His job is to crumb the footy. If the forwards are marking everything (which they did last week) and kicking points all day (which they did) how can he be expected to get 25 possessions? He wasn't Robinson Crusoe out there. It wasn't Garlett who lost us the game, it was Casboult, Waite, Eddie and the rest who managed to kick a losing score in the face of the rest of the team winning the footy and getting it down to them. It was also the fault of the defensive coach who yet again had a zone setup that allowed goals to run along the ground and go through. We must have conceded fifty goals that way this year.
This week doesn't matter apart from the need to get everyone through unscathed and to give the kids a run. If they win and someone does an acl the game is lost. I expect it to be bruise free footy from both sides. Free running and a shootout. If Mitchell can mark the footy, he should get a bag. If he can kick straight.
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