Steve_C7 wrote:
ColourMan wrote:
99prelim wrote:
Donstuie wrote:
He wasn't as bad with it this week as previous.
He did seem a little peeved in his presser about us chairing Gibbs off.
He shouldn't be. Those same players (and others) basically went on strike in the last few weeks of the Bolton era and then conjured up the Teague Train solution like the Emperor's new clothes
Correct, because Bolton focused on developing the younger players because the older players weren’t going to get any better or take us to our next flag
Stevie Wonder can see we aren’t going anywhere on the back of our veterans, yet Teague thinks otherwise, and has abandoned the development of whatever young talent we have
Giving games to young players when they aren't ready or deserving does way more harm than good.
Diesel even referenced Paddy Dow getting games when he didn't earn them as damaging to his development as he doesn't play with the intensity required for AFL level.
This is a hard year for new coaches as there is no lower level where you can get a good gauge of wether players are ready for AFL or play them back into form.
I give all first year coaches as get out of jail card this year, but he better have them playing with better cohesion and intensity this time next year.
Longmuir, Nicks seem to be doing ok, Teague had half a season head start (actually longer) on the new coaches
I don’t think Diesel was talking about the Paddy Dow of 18 months ago... Dow was the best performed mid out of the top ten in his draft year, and doing pretty well; SPS and Fish were doing well in the midfield too. Dow started going backwards with the change of coach, who banished the youngsters from the middle.
I don’t think E Curnow and Murphy are going to get any better as mids or play leading roles for where we want to get to... let’s develop our young mids
I also think SPS, Dow and Fish are better movers, and have higher ceilings as mids than Setterfield
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