Nandoz
8 Aug 2005, 21:18
When you look at it in the wonderful thing called hindsight, really we havent gone too far backwards from last year if backwards at all. Apart from the obvious positive, in blooding the young guys, the opportunity to play at the top level very early in development will pay back in spades down the track, but we have been in winning positions in quite a few matches we dropped, and only didnt get over the line due to the experience factor.
Games such as:
-The Blues Rd. 2 - Never should have lost this one
-Geelong Rd. 4 - were 4 goals up in the third quarter, winnable, inexperience
-Sydney Rd. 7 - again, 4 goals up at 3 quarter time, inexperience told
-Port Rd. 9 - leading at 3 qtr time, inexperience told
-WC Rd. 12 - huge effort, leading with 5 minutes to go, could have won but not too dissapointed
-Brisbane Rd. 17 - Right in the match till the death, very winnable, inexperience told, brave yet again
Really, if you turn the result around of those matches we are in the mix. In alot of them, we ran out of legs and the decision making wasnt there from the young guys in the heated atmosphere, which will develop with time and match fitness. I really dont think there is any reason to panic, the ladder position hasnt been there like previous years but the performance trends havent been to dis-similar, with the added bonus of a much younger team this year.
Not too far off the mark, scraping the bottom of the barrel, or fair assessment?
-Nandoz
Games such as:
-The Blues Rd. 2 - Never should have lost this one
-Geelong Rd. 4 - were 4 goals up in the third quarter, winnable, inexperience
-Sydney Rd. 7 - again, 4 goals up at 3 quarter time, inexperience told
-Port Rd. 9 - leading at 3 qtr time, inexperience told
-WC Rd. 12 - huge effort, leading with 5 minutes to go, could have won but not too dissapointed
-Brisbane Rd. 17 - Right in the match till the death, very winnable, inexperience told, brave yet again
Really, if you turn the result around of those matches we are in the mix. In alot of them, we ran out of legs and the decision making wasnt there from the young guys in the heated atmosphere, which will develop with time and match fitness. I really dont think there is any reason to panic, the ladder position hasnt been there like previous years but the performance trends havent been to dis-similar, with the added bonus of a much younger team this year.
Not too far off the mark, scraping the bottom of the barrel, or fair assessment?
-Nandoz