He's got a long way to go, he's 23 right now and by that time Buddy Franklin had a 100+ goal season and 23 was the age Adam Goodes won a Brownlow. He needs to do something similar soon while being absolute dynamite in the finals like those two were.
That's the second time this year West Coast have lost by over 100 points.. and yet somehow, that umpiring decision managed to be far worse than anything they did
not only do I see player burnout, I see players continuing to get worse at basic skills meanwhile the more talented ones leave for other sports/leagues that'll be less stressful to deal with
We don't need priority picks, we have plenty of good enough young players - our issues relate more to injuries, coaching and administration. It will also help if we can get more big bodied mature players in to help the younger players have more time to develop.
He was always going to be handed a poisoned chalice that much is obvious, and I've always wanted him to succeed but it's a good time to get real about it. I went onto Footywire and looked at the W/L percentage of AFL coaches current and past. He's not in very good company and given this is a...
I don't care either and while it does suck that Richmond are garbage, even when I watch other games I'm not entertained by the product that's being displayed which largely comes down to too many teams and the AFL tinkering with too many of the rules.
It's absolutely insane to me that they kept Hollands on the field when something was wrong.. you would have thought the captain, coaches, health staff, someone would have said "hey he doesn't look right" and pulled him off, Carlton are such a ****ing dumb club
I'm not sure if he will last, I get that we're rebuilding but getting belted every week is not a good look - the opposition kicking 52 points in the first quarter is not a good sign.