1979 Norm Smith medal wrote:
redskins wrote:
although i agree Fev needs to be ridiculed for his performance this week, suspending him is ludicrous.. To me, Fev is a victim of our game plan, or as i call it the "Reverse Flood"
The reverse flood is when we continue to put players inside our forward fifty, we dont wait for the opposition to do it, we instigate it ourselves. On the weekend we had 8 forwards on direct opponents in our forward 50. Just a touch crowded. Not only do we do this, but we also allow the other team to have outriders where if a quick kick comes outside 50, they have 70 or 80 metres to run (or walk) the ball inside theirown 50, leaving Pavlich one out.
Fev would be looking at the space afforded the opposition forwards and would be ropable. Could you imagine what Fev would do with this much space??? This falls squarely on DP and the MC. If teams flood against us surely we must be smart enough to combat this rather than just bombing the ball to a pack. Why not try Fev at CHF where his kicking could be used to go over the flood???
We need to look outside the square with Fev and try to figure out why he is cracking it, not just sending him away for a week to see if he can figure himself out.
Ask yourself a question, Was his performance any worse than Acklands last 2 weeks? Was his performance any less motivating than Cain's "weak as piss" efforts the last 2 weeks??Obviously not, yet i guarantee that huge lump of shit will beplaying again this week.
Denis maybe you should take a week off to assess your performance as well.
Post of the week in my opinion - give this man a cigar... actually that is
unhealthy, give him a box of chocolates or something like that.
I think people seem to label Fevola on a few dummy spits and yet forget
about all the good things he has done. People remember the bad and
forget the good.
I can't remember too many dummy spits this year- but I do know that he
has won us two games off his own boot. That was the Essendon* game and
the North pre-season. As far as I am aware, no one else has come close
to winning us two games off their own boot. Stevens was BOG against
Richmond, Carazzo had a blinder against the Bulldogs, and it was a team
effort against Port and that is about it.
Anyway - at least the parameters have been set.
Every player will now be suspended (unless they are Ackland, Whitnall or Saddington) if they breach these rules.
1) give away a 50 or 100 metre penalty - i think Simpson did earlier in the year, so he is skating on thin ice.
2) dispute an umpire's call.
good - now that we know this i look forward in 4 weeks time for Carlton
to be playing with 10 players on the ground.
Brendan Fevola is one of my favourite players, and watching him in full flight is breathtaking. I was even sympathetic to his yearning for the captaincy last year, particularly given the lack of leadership at our club.
The problem is that we must hold club leaders (whether official or symbolically) to a higher standard. Someone in an earlier post called Fevola a champion, and in terms of natural ability, he has the potential to achieve that status. But, to be worthy of the tag of champion, a player has to perform consistently, and achieve standards on and off the field along the lines of Buckley, Hird, Voss, Harvey et al. This is something our Full-forward is not even close to achieving.
Our young playing list have very few leaders to look up to, and those that we have are hardly inspiring. Fevola, as a dynamic and powerful on-field presence with a high off-field profile, has a far greater responsibility than every other player, with the exception of Whitnall, our insipid captain. So, while being suspended might be harsh, considering the years of softly trying to bring him into line, maybe this is the last resort.
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