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In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy
I'd just like to put something out there and if you like it you can take it, and if you don't send it right back.
I think Hawthorn is now at a stage where the coaching staff have to choose between wins and gaining experience. This is different I believe to last year where we simply did not have the experience to choose to win games. (ie giving Roughhead (18 games) Franklin (20 games) Sewell (16 games) Lewis (19 games), not to mention Campbell back, Guerra )
So anyway we can choose between wins and experience.
In theory I think that wins would involve us playing the best players in each position, playing a game plan which works for us now. It would also mean more membership NOW and more money NOW. However, I think that people will be kidding ourselves if we think that even trying to win we would make the 8.
In theory playing for experience will involve playing kids in positions where they will be beaten, playing a game plan that is above the skill levels which the kids possess so that they grow up as footballers knowing a game plan that can win a premiership. playing for experience will I think result in less membership NOW and less money NOW, but more membership, money and success in the FUTURE. Also if we play for experience then we will likely win less than 5 games and qualify for priority picks.
The other big unknown is whether we will instead of building good experience instead build a losing spirit that seemed to affect the doggies/swans/including possibly us.
Ok so everyone knows this or has been thinking it now lets apply it to real life.
Zac Dawson v Rocca, clearly choosing experience, (although I think that a lot of people have said it right that a lot of those goals would have been kicked anyway because of the delivery, the ones that could have been stopped were the ones where rocca roved the ball for a start)
Everitt v Max Bailey, well have to say that choosing winning here. The coaching staff has admitted Everitt is not fit.
So where to from here.
Well if we choose to go for experience we need to have explicit statements from the coaching staff and the management that this is the direction we are going. I do not think that the two possibilities can both be achieved this year. The explicit statement needs to be made to make sure that the drop in membership and money is not as great as would be without it.
We also need an explicit statement because at the moment Clarkson's contract review seems to be based on his performance in winning games.
I'd like to here people's thoughts on this rambling crap especially if people can provide more examples of choosing of wins or experience. Also whether wins and experience are mutually exclusive this year.
cheers
Will
I'd just like to put something out there and if you like it you can take it, and if you don't send it right back.
I think Hawthorn is now at a stage where the coaching staff have to choose between wins and gaining experience. This is different I believe to last year where we simply did not have the experience to choose to win games. (ie giving Roughhead (18 games) Franklin (20 games) Sewell (16 games) Lewis (19 games), not to mention Campbell back, Guerra )
So anyway we can choose between wins and experience.
In theory I think that wins would involve us playing the best players in each position, playing a game plan which works for us now. It would also mean more membership NOW and more money NOW. However, I think that people will be kidding ourselves if we think that even trying to win we would make the 8.
In theory playing for experience will involve playing kids in positions where they will be beaten, playing a game plan that is above the skill levels which the kids possess so that they grow up as footballers knowing a game plan that can win a premiership. playing for experience will I think result in less membership NOW and less money NOW, but more membership, money and success in the FUTURE. Also if we play for experience then we will likely win less than 5 games and qualify for priority picks.
The other big unknown is whether we will instead of building good experience instead build a losing spirit that seemed to affect the doggies/swans/including possibly us.
Ok so everyone knows this or has been thinking it now lets apply it to real life.
Zac Dawson v Rocca, clearly choosing experience, (although I think that a lot of people have said it right that a lot of those goals would have been kicked anyway because of the delivery, the ones that could have been stopped were the ones where rocca roved the ball for a start)
Everitt v Max Bailey, well have to say that choosing winning here. The coaching staff has admitted Everitt is not fit.
So where to from here.
Well if we choose to go for experience we need to have explicit statements from the coaching staff and the management that this is the direction we are going. I do not think that the two possibilities can both be achieved this year. The explicit statement needs to be made to make sure that the drop in membership and money is not as great as would be without it.
We also need an explicit statement because at the moment Clarkson's contract review seems to be based on his performance in winning games.
I'd like to here people's thoughts on this rambling crap especially if people can provide more examples of choosing of wins or experience. Also whether wins and experience are mutually exclusive this year.
cheers
Will
