Club does a pretty poor job of that in my opinion. Not sure what other clubs do but it is hard to find stuff like that easliy
Have to disagree. Longmire has a penchant for keeping brilliant young players in the reserves as a Siberian gulag. I have already said far too much about Aliir but he did the same to Mitchell. There are only two kinds of coaches. Those who take out of players by demanding more discipline, greater effort etc and those that put things back into players by developing their natural skill and creativity. Longmire takes things out of players in the interest of iron compliance with the club system. The lack of dough with Mitchell doesn't wash. The money could have been found with some ruthless culling. I give you Jack and McVeigh. Basically Longmire wants company men. We lost a Brownlow Medallist as a result.
Sometimes we can't see the wood for the trees. We get so caught up in our own value system that we fail to see the bleeding obvious. And when it all goes to hell and back, "clueless" is quite apt.
Titch may have been too slow and his disposals inaccurate and his two way running deficient, but it don't really matter if he is the one with leather poisoning. Great problem to have when you become the greatest accumulater the game has ever seen. If you don't have the ball, it never matters how great a kick you are. I hate to say it, but your diagnosis has unfortunate layers of truth to it. We just didn't handle Mitchell well and clearly his signature was not seen as a priority, whereas the extensions to Tippett's contract and Hanner's were. We goosed it. Simples.
As a decision iit's right up there with Decca Records that told Brian Epstien in 1961 that the Beatles wouldn't make it and that guitar bands were finished in music. They signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
Aren't they all
With respect you didn't read what I said. Those young players who have styles or individual brilliance that doesn't fit the rigid system of coaching get consigned to the reserves until they comply. Longmire does not fashion his game plan to the players he has got. It either his way or the highway. Mitchell walked. You have constructed a straw man. Its not a conspiracy. Its the way Longmire coaches. He is a "systems" coach. Are you seriously suggesting he is a creative and innovative coach? I didn't say all young players. I said "brilliant" with styles that don't fit the system. . Most of your list are good. Not brilliant. Lest see how he uses Menzel. Or even plays him.
I am not bashing Longmire. For goodness sake is the coach beyond discussion or criticism?. Which by the way is being now raised outside the club. I didn't think I was on a fan site. Sorry.Aren't they all
Don't be ridiculous. It's another Mitchell thread.
Its a thread about the recruitment of a player who plays with a style that Longmire does not employ on our forward line. A player with individuality like Mitchell and Aliir that did not fit with the coaches rigid system coaching. Will the most innovative coach since Len Smith introduced the flick pass at Fitzroy actually play Menzel in the firsts or simply have him as a spare parts reserves player to replace Jack when he suffers an injury. Are we relevant now champ?
No it's the Tom Mitchell thread.
Sorry I got so personal to you.
Its ok mate. I apologise I went cranky old bastard with you. Stayed up past my afternoon nap time. W are bloods supporters and can take it and dish it out. No offense at all.
Well said. And why are you always so bloody rational? I am on the aged pension so I have a right to stick to a slightly irrational view. It comes with the travel concession pass.
Connolly's points are fair and valid. Allir is a unique talent who is a great interceptor. Provided he he is able to leave his man and control the ball and play then he will become a champion. It becomes vital that the other backmen around him are alert enough to provide the cover so that he can do his stuff. Mitchell was not simply another plodder. Given his youth he gave every indication that he would become what he has become - the very best plodder running around. And that makes him unique because no-one else accumulates as well as he does. And Menzel ?? The point is well made by Connolly. Is horse astute enough to recognise his strengths and tweak the gameplan so that it allows his strengths a chance to shine? Or is the gameplan more important to Horse than the individuals who are asked to carry it out like mechanical automatoms? We shall see.
He needs that epiphany or he’ll be running defensive structures at St Kilda.
No.
