Sydney Blue wrote:
We enter each game like we have already activated the medical sub and down to 1 man on the bench.
Its not that we are carrying injuries we are carrying players that don't contribute and don't offer anything to the side.
Levi is useless
Betts I love the bloke but time has come.
Newnes very ordinary
Plowman I bowed to BV better judgement but now I find I am with Agro
Cotrell plenty of effort but is a ball butcher
Gibbons gives us not much
Pino is only just a ruckman
If Ed is not tagging he should not be playing.
To many part contributors and luckily we have Weiters Walsh and Harry otherwise we would be worse than North
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Hard to argue with this. However, the majority of the potential replacements are injured.
i.e. Marchbank/Parks for Plowman (will never happen coaches love him), Martin for Gibbons, Fisher for Betts, De Koning for Pitto, Newman for Newnes, JSOS for Casboult and for good measure add Charlie & Kemp who I have been told was ready to go round one this year
From yesterday's ressies you could bring in Setterfield (only if he plays on ball) and Dow, but ideally the latter will be allowed to build more confidence in the seconds for a while. Honey looks to have some traits as does Ramsay but my preference would be just continue to build them up in the twos rather than throw them in and risk burning their development. Owies I am not sold on and Williamson needs an extended run back there.
O'Brien is the other one but to me he only looks good in acres of space and with no pressure. This barely happens at senior level so I don't hold much hope there.
I think fair to say we don't yet have the depth to beat top sides
Ultimately, the best AFL teams build squads that can cover injuries (within reason) and buy into a culture and system. We can bang on about talent and skills, which are important, but it’s those intangibles within a club environment that makes a difference. It’s the reason why certain clubs have had enduring success, without the need to continually seek early draft picks. We have seen it as the solution when what we should have been seeking was instilling a winner mentality within the club and more focus on player and game development. Instead we kept hearing about those green shoots.