As an unbiased outsider , and not knowing your list intimately, you had the look today of a club that’s had Ayres in charge for 5 years. Like a vampire he loves to suck the life blood out of a list,"I want mature bodies". “rebuilding, that’s for the next guy". A couple of years ago I envied your midfield, you had a nice hard group of players like Roo, Johnson, Goodwin etc complemented by McLeod and ours were young and getting kicked around by Brisbane and Port. Now your midfield looks to have lost its strength, they are either injured or have lost pace or are not interested.
We are now starting see the results of drafting theses kids and playing them. Experience and time does wonders, not that we had a choice after Ayres LEFT us with a year left of his contract. A blessing actually.We had been topped up with good ordinary footballers too long and had no real fresh talent apparent. Thompson was forced to draft likely types and spend time to develop them. We, unlike you guys have struggled to pull a big name. We have been lucky with some players like Ablett and Scarlett, Father/Sons like that are a blessing from God but a guy like Moloney was overlooked by every other club, taken as a 4th or 5th choice in a pre season draft. Recent additions like Tenace shows what I’m talking about. We would have traded our pick 7 that got Tenace for Jade Rawlings(thank God he didn’t want to come)What did Carey cost you again?Tenace is going to be a star, with only 5 games he is already starting to give the much need speed, skill and flair that Cat supporters expect. (To win is good, to win with style is always better!)
Its taken five years to get our midfield back to a reasonable quality and it’ll take another 2-3 to get our forward line to back to being dangerous but we are progressing, and who’s to say what our backline will be like once our forwardline is good again, but that’s rebuilding Frustrating and time consuming.
Topping up is tempting because you feel you might get results quicker but in reality guys like Carey have cost you big time My only comment to you guys is to put pressure on the club to get the best young kids from SA into your side. Did the Crows try to do a deal for Cooney last year? Well if you didn’t , you certainly should be going flat out at the end of next year. Due to the current draft rules grabbing those early picks is the only way to grab best local kids. My personal preference has always been that the best talent should go to their local side/club , just like I think we should have dibs on the best talented Geelong Area Juniors, each club should get 1 pick from their local area. Football was developed on tribalism, it should remain that way. Back to reality. What ever talents coming up in your Teal cup side you must do your best to top up with it. Trade if you have to get an extra picks in the Top10, even if you go backwards for a year or 2 its worth it, believe me. I’ve been watching mediocrity for close to a decade and its not pleasant.
Give Topping up and Ayres the flick. Draft the cream of SA youth, not the smelly old Cheese from whereever. Do it now before guys like Roo are gone cause it’s a lot harder and a lot more painful with just kids in your side !!!
TurboCat
We are now starting see the results of drafting theses kids and playing them. Experience and time does wonders, not that we had a choice after Ayres LEFT us with a year left of his contract. A blessing actually.We had been topped up with good ordinary footballers too long and had no real fresh talent apparent. Thompson was forced to draft likely types and spend time to develop them. We, unlike you guys have struggled to pull a big name. We have been lucky with some players like Ablett and Scarlett, Father/Sons like that are a blessing from God but a guy like Moloney was overlooked by every other club, taken as a 4th or 5th choice in a pre season draft. Recent additions like Tenace shows what I’m talking about. We would have traded our pick 7 that got Tenace for Jade Rawlings(thank God he didn’t want to come)What did Carey cost you again?Tenace is going to be a star, with only 5 games he is already starting to give the much need speed, skill and flair that Cat supporters expect. (To win is good, to win with style is always better!)
Its taken five years to get our midfield back to a reasonable quality and it’ll take another 2-3 to get our forward line to back to being dangerous but we are progressing, and who’s to say what our backline will be like once our forwardline is good again, but that’s rebuilding Frustrating and time consuming.
Topping up is tempting because you feel you might get results quicker but in reality guys like Carey have cost you big time My only comment to you guys is to put pressure on the club to get the best young kids from SA into your side. Did the Crows try to do a deal for Cooney last year? Well if you didn’t , you certainly should be going flat out at the end of next year. Due to the current draft rules grabbing those early picks is the only way to grab best local kids. My personal preference has always been that the best talent should go to their local side/club , just like I think we should have dibs on the best talented Geelong Area Juniors, each club should get 1 pick from their local area. Football was developed on tribalism, it should remain that way. Back to reality. What ever talents coming up in your Teal cup side you must do your best to top up with it. Trade if you have to get an extra picks in the Top10, even if you go backwards for a year or 2 its worth it, believe me. I’ve been watching mediocrity for close to a decade and its not pleasant.
Give Topping up and Ayres the flick. Draft the cream of SA youth, not the smelly old Cheese from whereever. Do it now before guys like Roo are gone cause it’s a lot harder and a lot more painful with just kids in your side !!!
TurboCat
