gerry atric wrote:
CONS
Too many guys have lazy sloppy disposal when under no pressure
FEV - can't believe anyone at the game was satisfied with Fev's efforts. He just didn't try in the first three quarters. He has prodigous talent as he showed in the last but is the most selfish player I have ever seen in th navy blue, and at 27 I have finally conceded that he won't ever change. The fact that the coach tolerated his antics in the first three qtrs indicates that either they have decided Fev is gone, or they have decided that he can do what he likes and he is not subject to the same rules or requirements of the rest of the team. The fact that he is so talented makes it all the harder to take. He is just so dumb and immature that he doesn't get it and doesn't care if he lets his team mates down. His first half was as bad as anything he has ever served up. It is going to be hard to tell young players they have to chase etc if Fev is allowed to do as he pleases. I don't know what we do. He is a match winner who works totally for himself. Even in the last right in front of me, twice he didn't bother to pick up an opponent and the ball was passed to the dogs player nearest to him. If we didn't have him we would lose a guy who is close to the best in the comp when on song, but if he stays it means we have the most selfish lazy immature player in the league setting an example for anyone who comes into the side. People might say he won the game for us, but if he had tried early on we never would have been behind.
Ratts - gutless effort to allow Fev to stay on the park when he clearly was not trying. Smacks of a suburban coach who needs his star even when he plays like a spoilt child. I can't believe posters who have seen the great Carlton sides and leaders would tolerate this. Fev is brilliant, charismatic exciting and utterly self centred, selfish and disinterested in the 1%s. He chases and tries when it suits himself not the team. Looks like Ratts reckons that's okay by him.
Garbage...he had a few shots that missed early in the game then stepped up to seal the win for us in the end....yes the reversal of the 50 was regrettable but I think his good yesterday more than made up for the bad, and Ratts even said so. His chasing was good, his conversion when it mattered was outstanding.
I'm so sick of all the Fev haters, who even after he plays a major role in a great win, continue with their ignorant rants about negative "body language" and other minor, inconsequential issues which they delight in over-exaggerating the impact of.
At the end of the day we pay him for KICKING GOALS to assist us in WINNING GAMES - both of which materialised yesterday. For you to say he is not interested in one percenters is indicative of the amount of notice you must take of him on the field. And for you to pin the fact we were behind on him is so completely off the mark that it doesn't even deserve a response.
Great game from the Fev yesterday - we wouldn't have won without him.