Golumless
A bigger deal out west.
The typical Crows supporter paranoia is palpable here.
Lynch, Talia, McKay have all made an exit, even losing players like Davis will lower our age profile dramatically. Unlikely Tex goes on another year and we’re looking very thin in terms of experienced players around the club.
These experienced players push younger players and drive expectations. Some people on this board just don’t get the bigger picture that it’s all a balance act as we go forward. Some would have us field an entire team of under 22’s every week ‘just to get the gaaaaames into ‘em!’
Moronic.
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The thing with experience is, on its own, experience is completely useless.
Why this pervasive idea exists is that quality footballers and experience are correlated. However, it's more that quality players get game time and eventually become experienced, not experience makes a quality footballer better.
We have the experienced players to push the youngsters already. You only need a handful of them, and with Sloane, Tex, Smith, Seedsman, Laird, Mrouch etc, we have them already. The balancing act is not senior v young. It's quality footballers and developing prospects. With anyone we are bringing into our club there are two key questions - do they substantially make our best 22 better (after all, getting in an older guy who is only marginally better than a prospect ends up being self-harming, as they get game time and stunt the prospect from developing), or do we reckon something has been missed with their development, and they're in a position of need (the Keays/Crocker types).
The Leinarts, Dunstans, Dumonts types of this world offer no positives whatsoever to a rebuilding side. They just clog the list and block the pathway up that gets kids into the best 22 as quickly as feasible. Even if the intention is to use them as depth as there will be a time the team starts losing, and any coaching group is immediately going to look at a older guy and say - he fixes our problem. It's the mistake that wrecked Melbourne in the early 2010s, Carlton in the mid 2010s, and North in the late 2010s.
Now a player like Dawson is exactly what we should be targeting. They have the potential to make a difference.
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