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Is Partington a midfielder? The coaches don't seem to think so.
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Think it was all just bullshit pedalled by the coaches, I mean we're one of the most defensively soft sides in the league through the midfield & forward line, don't think inserting Partington a few games earlier would have made much difference. The line on Partington earlier in the season seemed to be that he was getting a lot of the ball but not doing much with it, which completely ignores the fact that it was the EP game plan at the time to run in Gerard Neesham style handball circles and not doing anything with the ball.
I'm not saying that Gaff should have been dropped for Partington, I just think it's ridiculous that the coaches would cite Partington's disposal as the reason he's not getting a game when many of the players already in the side are just as bad.
Would rather have had a young guy in there developing than a 28 year old who's on the decline.
Part of the revolving door selections of older guys who aren't playing well (Masten, Wellingham, Hill, Priddis, Lecras) who just keep getting shunted in and out of the side for each other. Meanwhile we're playing just about the least amount of under 25's in the league and we're supposed to be trying to develop the team for the future.
Not that good or held to higher standards than the guys already in the team before they can get a game?
I'm talking in general about the young guys that get a few games out of their natural position, don't do that great and then get shunted back to the WAFL, or guys that don't even get a game. Mutimer, Cole, Karpany, Lamb, Nelson, Watson. Any other team in the league would have given these guys an extended run or in the case of Lamb and Watson at least given them a game or two to see what they've got. We seem to allocate 4 or 5 spots to young guys and that's it, where as other teams will carry their younger players through 5 or 6 game stints because they know they're going to be a better team in the long run for it. We play the least amount of young guys in the league, and it's actually quite scary when you look at it, we're going to pay for it big time in the next couple of years.
heck thats bad! Even teams top of the ladder pushing for a flag have at least double.
I knew we'd be low down, wasn't expecting quite the disparity though
We are the new LOL Norf.
With the ladder position to prove it
Yeh, I'm not advocating playing all of those guys at once, but slotting in another couple at least in every game probably wouldn't have made any difference to our ladder position this year and would have helped to build for the future.
