The Rebuild v3.0

[kingcarey1]

Well, it now seems Richmond have surpassed us.

The team that was supposed to tank this year out with a bunch of teenagers.

Well done North Melbourne!

Time to start it all again.

 

[Roosurgence]

What’s the point of rebuilding when you have a spud like Rawlings making key calls?

 

[glenn2479]

We’re helping fast track the Richmond rebuild by gifting them our first rounder next year.

 

[Devil Fish]

Well, it now seems Richmond have surpassed us.

The team that was supposed to tank this year out with a bunch of teenagers.

Well done North Melbourne!

Time to start it all again.

It’s incredible to think, 2 weeks ago, most here were “happy with what we’ve got”……

 

[Roosurgence]

This is the issue of taking super talented kids who have had the game on their terms as juniors.

Unless you have strong leadserhip around them to pull their heads in and make them accountable, then you get these soft, lazy and entitled performances.

This has been my biggest criticism of Clarko is that by continually selecting the same players letting the side down week after week, he is actually enabling the behaviour.

There is no current side in the comp that would put up with McKerchers squibbing and non-efforts and keep playing him.

 

[Gasometer]

 

[koshari]

Well, it now seems Richmond have surpassed us.

The team that was supposed to tank this year out with a bunch of teenagers.

Well done North Melbourne!

Time to start it all again.

They can do as they please. They already filled up in last years draft and have next years sewn up regardless whete they finish. Very well run club.

 

[koshari]

We’re helping fast track the Richmond rebuild by gifting them our first rounder next year.

Oscar Allen would do wonders to our forward line going forward and is likely to be gettable next trading period and we threw all our trading collateral away for magic beans.

 

[ferball]

This is the issue of taking super talented kids who have had the game on their terms as juniors.

Unless you have strong leadserhip around them to pull their heads in and make them accountable, then you get these soft, lazy and entitled performances.

This has been my biggest criticism of Clarko is that by continually selecting the same players letting the side down week after week, he is actually enabling the behaviour.

There is no current side in the comp that would put up with McKerchers squibbing and non-efforts and keep playing him.

Poor edit. Its obvious Clarko needs to select insane players.

 

[Roosurgence]

Poor edit. Its obvious Clarko needs to select insane players.

You must have quoted just before my edit LOL

The currently selection criteria is insane.

I said if we selected McKercher for Good Friday we were mental.

This kid currently has no reality of what it takes to make it at AFL level and Clarko is enabling him by not setting any standard on performance to earn a game at the top level.

It’s a cluster ****.

 

[ferball]

You must have quoted just before my edit LOL

The currently selection criteria is insane.

I said if we selected McKercher for Good Friday we were mental.

This kid currently has no reality of what it takes to make it at AFL level and Clarko is enabling him by not setting any standard on performance to earn a game at the top level.

It’s a cluster ****.

McKercher was heaps better on the softness front on Friday. He even went back with the flight into a pack and either took a mark or got smashed. It was good to see him to to respond to that criticism.

 

[Val Keating]

Worth noting that there best players were established players, Taranto, Hopper, Vlastuin & Lynch. If our young players had better support from our senior players it’d be a different story.

So no, their rebuild isn’t ahead of ours

 

[Merlin007]

Worth noting that there best players were established players, Taranto, Hopper, Vlastuin & Lynch. If our young players had better support from our senior players it’d be a different story.

So no, their rebuild isn’t ahead of ours

Nankervis has been colossal for them... and one of the reasons we're struggling is Xerri is either hampered or out of touch

 

[koshari]

Nankervis has been colossal for them... and one of the reasons we're struggling is Xerri is either hampered or out of touch

X got hammered in an earler game and has been of the boil since godees.

 

[koshari]

Worth noting that there best players were established players, Taranto, Hopper, Vlastuin & Lynch. If our young players had better support from our senior players it’d be a different story.

So no, their rebuild isn’t ahead of ours

Balta was probably the difference

 

[ferball]

Balta was probably the difference

Was huge. Maybe thought it was a farewell game.

 

[koshari]

The rebuild was looking great till the first winds came.

 

[Passmore]

Worth noting that there best players were established players, Taranto, Hopper, Vlastuin & Lynch. If our young players had better support from our senior players it’d be a different story.

So no, their rebuild isn’t ahead of ours

I guess it depends on what those pass onto the kids over the next few years. Good habits, work ethic, how to win.

 

[DuckYeah]

imagine a club in a rebuild who has won 15 games over 5 years trades out the future first pick for around 30. what geniuses.

But all the top picks are mids!! THEN DONT PICK THE ****ING MID! The beauty about having the first pick or the second pick is you get to choose who you want.

I was disgusted when that happened and its now becoming reality

 

[koshari]

imagine a club in a rebuild who has won 15 games over 5 years trades out the future first pick for around 30. what geniuses.

But all the top picks are mids!! THEN DONT PICK THE ****ING MID! The beauty about having the first pick or the second pick is you get to choose who you want.

I was disgusted when that happened and its now becoming reality

Zane wasnt a mid

 

[Themanbun]

Zane wasnt a mid

True, he is a mid-sized forward. A definite position of need!

 

[discodaddy]

I need someone to hold me tight and tell me we’ll be ok.

Lie to me if needed.

 

[Passmore]

True, he is a mid-sized forward. A definite position of need!

Diverting from Zane slightly, but tying him back in…we seem to start 2 mids in the fwd 50 at every centre bounce. Do you think that is working (well nothing is working over the past 3 weeks…)?

 

[koshari]

True, he is a mid-sized forward. A definite position of need!

Was on response to a specific post

 

[Themanbun]

Diverting from Zane slightly, but tying him back in…we seem to start 2 mids in the fwd 50 at every centre bounce. Do you think that is working (well nothing is working over the past 3 weeks…)?

Nope and it's probably my only critique of Clarko's game plan. We play them forward to roll 1-2 extra up to the stoppage (where we should theoretically be strongest).

We've been killed by:


Bailey Dale
Rory Laird
Riley Bice
Joel Jeffrey & John Noble

In 4 out of our 5 losses, an oppo half back has been instrumental. I think this is a direct consequence of how many half forwards we roll up to the stoppage.