SurreyBlue wrote:
deano35 wrote:
Its time the young mids we drafted to build the club around for the future are actually played there.
Fisher is rotting away in a FP.
Gibbons is wasted as a forward, he won 2 liston medals as a MID.
Cunningham got a chance and killed the Scum then put straight back in our forward line. Wasted
SPS is dying a slow football death as a HB. Break out games last season as a MID now wasted down back.
Kennedy clearly needed to play yesterday and has improved with more OPPORTUNITY as a Mid. Wasted playing scratch match.
O'Brien played really well on the wing late last season. Wasting away in scratch matches.
Martin needs to go through the midfield much more.
Walsh has been super on the wing BUT he is elite as an on baller/clearance player.
Stocker played last season BUT as a HB not the midfield bull we drafted him for.
Im sick of seeing the same 4 guys in the middle not getting it done.
We need more rotations Inc Cripps.
Murphy should be cleared out of the centre square and never to return. Has he actually ever won a centre clearance???
I can't remember the last time i saw him streaming away with the ball moving it forward from a centre bounce.
Setterfield needs to be rotated forward more coz he can actually mark it well and has good forward craft.
We have the bloody Midfield talent it's about time we used them there and not try to re invent the wheel.
Im just not sure what Teague is trying to achieve.
I have to say, I agree with most of this and it's all starting to make me a little uneasy.
I'm in the same boat.
We all know Teague is favouring the senior players for wins over youth development, but now is the time to make the change back. I doubt we will make finals with games against GWS and the Lions. But this also doesn't mean we just roll over either.
Do you think we are ahead of last year, the same or behind?
2019 - Under Teague, 11 games with 6 wins.
2020 - 13 games with 6 wins, plus we added Betts, Martin, Newnes and Pitto in the off season.
What we have given up is development into the kids and possibly Matt Rowell (if we stayed on the bottom last year), who will be one of the best footballers we will see, bar injury. I do believe a winning culture is always better than a losing one, but did we get up off the bottom 1 year too soon?
I just hope what we have done so far is enough to attract the serious senior talent we have been lacking in the middle.