Pafloyul wrote:
cj69 wrote:
It's a win and we needed it.
It was strange watching two bottom side with 83 000 people.
What today showed me:
Our game plan and structure is very poor or either we aren't doing what we are supposed.
Our kids have potential with guys such as Robbo, Joseph, Browne, Austin, Hammer, Bower looking better and better.
We have some very lazy players who do the easy things. Unless we have 22 players putting bodies on the line we will get smashed.
Question marks over Stevens (some of his efforts were disgraceful) Russell (the new Mick Gayfer) Thornton (won't get those possessions against a good side and his disposal is very slow) Fevola & Yarran (nowhere near fit enough for AFL level)
"The BIGGEST issue for me that has been obvious in our loses and today is our lack of leg speed and lack of kicking penetration across the ground"
Unless we address these issues we will NOT reach teh top level.
How do we address those issues? Do we want a total side reconstruction or do we want to pull a few bricks out from underneath? Next year it will be something else. The last time we tried to do that sort of thing we got Jordan Russell and plenty of 'needs' have come and gone since then. You try to overcompensate and you just see other problems crop-up, some of them caused by the very elements that were brought in to fix the first issue. Call it
The Cane Toad Principle.
To me its the kids.
For me they were the highlight of the day. Just little bits of improvement is all we can ask and with the opportunities they are starting to show it.
Guys like Grigg, Walker, Yarran, Garlett, Browne, Anderson, Joseph, Armfield, Austin along with Gibbs, Murphy, Kruezer will help alleviate those problems.
Serious questions need to be asked of the futures of Stevens, Fevola & Thornton as their deficincies are exposed against good sides.
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