rickety
Brownlow Medallist
Second year team, loads of injuries, a few junior AFL kids, top up players, AFL players on limited playing minutes and so on. They have had some good along the way too.Our vfl results speak for themselves
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Second year team, loads of injuries, a few junior AFL kids, top up players, AFL players on limited playing minutes and so on. They have had some good along the way too.Our vfl results speak for themselves
Not to mention some of our players this year would have rather been on amazing race or back home in Ireland. I think it's fair that Loaders gets another year to see what he can do.Second year team, loads of injuries, a few junior AFL kids, top up players, AFL players on limited playing minutes and so on. They have had some good along the way too.
We have been s**t for way too long in the 2s. We need something different
We are not going to go anywhere as a club if our VFL side isn’t succeeding. It is all connected
Our vfl results speak for themselves
We don't particularly care about winning games at VFL level! It's about player development, and some might say we haven't exactly knocked that out of the park.
We are starting to see some results with the likes of Zurhaar, Larkey, Daw, Ahern, I hope to see further improvement from Taylor, LDU, Scott, Hosie, Xerri & McKay in 2020. If peeps want to focus on wins at VFL level, they're probably going to be disappointed.
It's at days end a reserves competition.
Again, all of those things would probably have been achieved if not for the massive list of injuries we carried. So when the club is listing it's concerns, I sincerely doubt VFL wins registers at all when we have that many players missing. This is BF at it again, wanting to be outraged at a lack of success from a bare bones 2s side. Unfortunately you can't make strawberry jam with s**t.What you on about? The players in the VFL shouldn’t be focused on winning games? How else are they going to develop? That makes zero sense.
Good VFL form, confidence in players, competition for spots, increasing our depth, developing a winning culture and much more is so important to our AFL side including north as a whole
If you think you can have great development without winning or success, I don’t know what to say lol
What you on about? The players in the VFL shouldn’t be focused on winning games? How else are they going to develop? That makes zero sense.
Good VFL form, confidence in players, competition for spots, increasing our depth, developing a winning culture and much more is so important to our AFL side including north as a whole
If you think you can have great development without winning or success, I don’t know what to say lol
Wasn’t a coincidence when we had VFL success and made finals in the 90s (and won them) it was one of our best eras in the AFL
It correlates for sure
Look at Richmond over the last 3 years
Seniors and Reserves flying
Is the success co related ?
I think it is
They’re all on the same page re game plan and developing players at the same time
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Don't discount the fact that to win a flag you have to have a good run with injuries, and that also means you probably have good availability of your AFL listed players in the twos. Sure the lists are probably stronger around the fringes for the better teams but healthy matters too.Yeah but I think it works in a top down sort of way.
The success at VFL level comes from having good AFL level depth and players with lots of hunger and drive to play at AFL level.
If the VFL team has 12 players trying to break into the firsts every week its a different story to the firsts having 4 or 5 crucial players out with injury every week.
Great post pykie. That is an enviable list of players if they can get the kms in the legs this pre season and stay healthy. Really bullish about this group of U23sInject the following players into the VFL for hopefully most of next year injury free and it's a different looking beast:
Daw/Durdin/McKay
Jacobs/Anderson
Hayden
Tyson
Hall
B.Scott
Walker
EVW/McDonald/Williams/MacMillan
Bonar/LDU
Hosie/Wood
T.Murphy
T.McKenzie
C.Taylor/Turner
3 x fresh, injury free draftee's.
Incredible how many of those above have missed major %'s of full seasons over the last 2 years.
Campbell
Xerri
Daw/Durdin
McKay
Murphy
McKenzie
EVW
C.Taylor
Hosie
Wood
Bonar
B.Scott
Hayden
Walker
Tyson
Hall
McDonald
Is an example of a bloody strong side if we can somehow get our AFL injury list under control and get 15+ AFL listed players out there each week like the Dog's and Richmond have managed over the last couple of years, instead of having 5 or 6 spare fit AFL listed players.
It's an exponential flow on effect.
A midfield of Campbell, Tyson, Hall, Bonar, B.Scott, Walker, Hayden & McDonald would absolute brain the VFL if we had the injury list to compile it.
Jeepers, I hope we keep Nashy and Ty, my little mate will be gutted. Mind you, I reckon he likes the 'borough, so if CJ left I think it's the best of a bad lot. Good luck CJ, your mum gave me a funny look when I said you're a nice fella, but me and my little mate obviously know better than your mumChris Jansen has signed with Port Melbourne
And if Rippon is going back to Ballarat then our midfield just took a hammering
Chris Jansen has signed with Port Melbourne
And if Rippon is going back to Ballarat then our midfield just took a hammering
In theory, but those 2 blokes have been a pretty big part of the engine room.Two guys not on our senior list, does that mean spots open up for our players?
In theory, but those 2 blokes have been a pretty big part of the engine room.
Yeah but still, its still a part of the club and those 2 fellas in particular would be good examples, or at least good structure in a team made up possibly of junior AFL players. I get your point, but they are both good footballers, hard at it, hard workers and team players. Good examples and structure for a team with who knows how many new recruits
You might, but I'd rather see a more competetive VFL sideMeh, I'd rather 2 rookies played
Meh, okay.You might, but I'd rather see a more competetive VFL side