gringo2011
Premium Platinum
Really?
Lonie himself stated that he never gave up and forced his way back.
So you're saying that Paddy wasn't trusted with a run of games despite poor form? Or Billings? Or Membrey? Just to name a few.
Plenty of trust in Parker and Long who aren't exactly blue collar...
Paddy was but that looked more like they felt like they had to. That just makes it look like he has poor judgement as well. Billings got games because he was playing quite well and we were a side at the bottom of the ladder who had no one else. Membrey was coming from another club partially developed in a god system.
Lonie was in and out all year in 2018, he was converting his shots late last year and working well as a pressure forward but was more serviceable when no-one else was left standing. This year he moves all over the ground and is set up as a forward flank but as soon as the ball bounces he's running flat out like a wingman into the action, he follows the play then. He's gone to a completely new level compared to last year. Savage was looking like he was killing time until his contract ran out and has been given a defined role and has blossomed.
Anyway just because they don't stuff up development of all players doesn't mean they haven't under utilised Acres.