dannyboy wrote:
or another way of looking at it
lack of depth because its not there or because its not used (to find out if its there).
But isn't that the point of the VFL?
You can't play average football in the VFL and then expect to replace a senior.
Especially when a senior like Doc comes back and puts on a show in the VFL, that alone is a depth highlighter.
Last weeks game was not a great example but Billy Wilson was supposed to be next man up.
He went from 24 disposals, 79.2% Disposal Eff, 6 intercepts and 5 contested possessions in the VFL and stood out.
To 7 disposals, 137m gained, 71.4% Disposal Eff, 1 intercept and 0 contested possessions against Port and was hardly sighted.
The gap between our VFL team and AFL team is wider than most people think.
Exposure might help to a degree, but until we fix the team balance in the seniors they will always be more pressured to perform and more likely to fail.
It is also why injuries affect us so much.
For example, you have a player like Doc who can blitz it in the VFL and comes into our seniors and is lame.
We have our top 6 players who are all well above the rest of the senior team, then we have our next let's say 18 who are well above our VFL team.
There is little to no competition for spots that would make a difference and as a result our top 6 don't have to perform at 100% to keep their positions.
I think if you want to talk mindset then a lack of depth is the key issue, no pressure from below is the reason our players feel safe no matter how they perform.
So an injured or sick Cripps/Weitering will be much better players than any of our VFL players and is why they get a game.
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