Murphy would of hardly got a touch if Newchurch didn't serve it up on a plater to him
4 goals 3 and a heap of assists and still cant get a game.
Nick's focus on contested ball is blinding him to players other good traits
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4 goals 3 and a heap of assists and still cant get a game.
Nick's focus on contested ball is blinding him to players other good traits
Exactly. It's my 30th this weekend and going to the game travelling from Geelong.
Feel like I'm wasting my time.
Correct. You need both. We currently barely have the contested ones. It's why we are where we are.
Not sure if this is meant to be sarcastic?
We are talking about the Ned McH who laid 3 tackles in the game before Carlton, and ZERO tackles the following week?
To suggest that he would have made any difference against the Blues is a long shot at best!!
The only one hurt is the recruiting dept for taking him in the first round of the draft.
I withdraw the suggestion since you have demonstrated that you are a wonderful judge of a footballer *
. An early turnover= banished for life.After a season disrupted by injury and illness, most good judges (including our coaches) have been very pleased with his last two matches.
*Ben Keays not an AFL standard footballer????
I am a fan of Patty Parnell but he needs at least another preseason. I hope he isn’t ragdolled on Saturday
I think you need to look at what Nick's is trying to achieve with this game. It's margin mitigation. His plan is to stop Melbourne scoring as much. That extra layer of us scoring will be added next year.
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What really shits me is during the bye, the club put out an interview with Nicks about what to expect for the second half of the season and he specifically mentions Newchurch and Cooky.
Perfect chance to get Bucky in this week with confidence and they go the safest braindead selection with Murphy. Pressure player for pressure player will be their excuse.
Started with Godden not being able to complete his assessment on Newchurchs game without being a negative nancy. Hope the media really put the heat on.
Perfect chance to get Bucky in this week with confidence and they go the safest braindead selection with Murphy. Pressure player for pressure player will be their excuse.
Started with Godden not being able to complete his assessment on Newchurchs game without being a negative nancy. Hope the media really put the heat on.
And Parnell is still in the side. Another tick
They are doing quite a bit right except for the bloody obvious change
Agreed, we are really really bad at spotting players with genuine ability and persisisting with young players that just don't have a future at this level...
V Newchurch 19.13Murph has kicked 2.9 this season.
I reckon we have been playing him with it for a month now.
We just continually run injured players into the ground until we break them
I'm not sure Newchurch is AFL standard but I know Murphy definetley isn't and contributes nothing. Murphy is not going to get much better so I see no point in playing him. At least we will find out about Newchurch by playing him.
Bitterly disappointed.
Here is the email i just typed up:
Hello Mr Silvers,
I am writing to you tonight as a bitterly disappointed member of the AFC. I am absolutely frustrated by the baffling selection decisions from the coaches week in and week out in 2022. I am not going to sit here and think I know more about football than these people. I don't. But i need to vent as tonight's selection has made me more angry and more disappointed in my football club than ever before and i will not sit back and be voiceless anymore
Some of my frustrations:
1. Playing the inexperienced players out of position, which in turn then makes them look like they didn't play well and they get dropped again,
2. The lack of opportunity after some good SANFL form for some players (Newchurch, Worrell, Pedlar)
3. Dropping the young players after what seemed like good form (Jones)
4. Moving Hately out of the midfield after some really good form in the guts across a few games (best of his short career) once Crouch was brought back into the team
5. Playing a midfield most weeks of 185 cm slow football players. All who have rotated through there at times are good footballers in their own rights, but they are all basically the same height, speed and skill level (Laird, Keays, Crouch, Hately, Berry, Sloane etc before his injury). Easy to plan for opposition coaches IMO
6. The regression of Thilthorpe and Rachele. Thilthorpe looks a shell of the player he was 12 months ago and Rachele came into the league as the most in form first year player in the first 6 weeks and now can't get near it. Why? Maybe the first year caught up with Rachele, but that doesn't explain Thilthorpe
And tonight was the final straw. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for a young player to get an opportunity (i.e. Newchurch in this week after some amazing SANFL form) for McHenry who is injured, yet we select Lachlan Murphy, a player we have seen and know what output we'll get. I do not believe for 1 second that we are better off with him in the team over Newchurch in this situation of where the team is at development and ladder wise
When we are supposedly going through a "rebuild" some of the decisions though 2022 have been baffling to say the least. There have been some positives. Dawson is an absolute gun. Great recruit. Berry has been put in his best position and has thrived. Fogarty seems to have turned the corner. Burgess seems to have been an amazing pick up for our fitness
I want to get one thing clear. I am ok with losing whilst rebuilding..... IF there is some semblance of a plan for the future.
But when we keep going back to players who we have seen in action and know exactly what they offer (Murphy tonight, Crouch again recently) when we have potentially better players in amazing form and we still don't select them, then I can't see what that plan is. We need to see what some of these players in the SANFL have got. And when they're in form is the best time. But the club continues to "play it safe" even though we are losing more games than we're winning anyway
And if I don't believe there is a plan, I am afraid that my membership. My wife's membership and my 2 kid's memberships will not be renewed in 2023. I just have to make a stand and not throw away my hard earned $ year after year to see the same decisions being made over and over again. Its the definition of insanity
I hope you get a chance to read this email, I understand you are a busy man. I know I am not the only one feeling this frustration, I just hope to see some change at the AFC regarding our selection policies and the way the club looks at a rebuild and developing of our young players by giving them a shot on the big stage
Here is the email i just typed up:
Hello Mr Silvers,
I am writing to you tonight as a bitterly disappointed member of the AFC. I am absolutely frustrated by the baffling selection decisions from the coaches week in and week out in 2022. I am not going to sit here and think I know more about football than these people. I don't. But i need to vent as tonight's selection has made me more angry and more disappointed in my football club than ever before and i will not sit back and be voiceless anymore
Some of my frustrations:
1. Playing the inexperienced players out of position, which in turn then makes them look like they didn't play well and they get dropped again,
2. The lack of opportunity after some good SANFL form for some players (Newchurch, Worrell, Pedlar)
3. Dropping the young players after what seemed like good form (Jones)
4. Moving Hately out of the midfield after some really good form in the guts across a few games (best of his short career) once Crouch was brought back into the team
5. Playing a midfield most weeks of 185 cm slow football players. All who have rotated through there at times are good footballers in their own rights, but they are all basically the same height, speed and skill level (Laird, Keays, Crouch, Hately, Berry, Sloane etc before his injury). Easy to plan for opposition coaches IMO
6. The regression of Thilthorpe and Rachele. Thilthorpe looks a shell of the player he was 12 months ago and Rachele came into the league as the most in form first year player in the first 6 weeks and now can't get near it. Why? Maybe the first year caught up with Rachele, but that doesn't explain Thilthorpe
And tonight was the final straw. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for a young player to get an opportunity (i.e. Newchurch in this week after some amazing SANFL form) for McHenry who is injured, yet we select Lachlan Murphy, a player we have seen and know what output we'll get. I do not believe for 1 second that we are better off with him in the team over Newchurch in this situation of where the team is at development and ladder wise
When we are supposedly going through a "rebuild" some of the decisions though 2022 have been baffling to say the least. There have been some positives. Dawson is an absolute gun. Great recruit. Berry has been put in his best position and has thrived. Fogarty seems to have turned the corner. Burgess seems to have been an amazing pick up for our fitness
I want to get one thing clear. I am ok with losing whilst rebuilding..... IF there is some semblance of a plan for the future.
But when we keep going back to players who we have seen in action and know exactly what they offer (Murphy tonight, Crouch again recently) when we have potentially better players in amazing form and we still don't select them, then I can't see what that plan is. We need to see what some of these players in the SANFL have got. And when they're in form is the best time. But the club continues to "play it safe" even though we are losing more games than we're winning anyway
And if I don't believe there is a plan, I am afraid that my membership. My wife's membership and my 2 kid's memberships will not be renewed in 2023. I just have to make a stand and not throw away my hard earned $ year after year to see the same decisions being made over and over again. Its the definition of insanity
I hope you get a chance to read this email, I understand you are a busy man. I know I am not the only one feeling this frustration, I just hope to see some change at the AFC regarding our selection policies and the way the club looks at a rebuild and developing of our young players by giving them a shot on the big stage
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I've been complaining about this for a while.
It's the same reason we play two centre square mids in Hately and Soligo on the wings.
It's like a cricket team picking inferior bowlers who can bat a bit because the top six aren't getting the job done.
Get better midfielders (and a ruckman) FFS.
Infuriating.
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Nicks is full of s**t.
No wonder the likes of ROB, Doedee and Smith seem to have checked out on game day.
doing the bare minimum, needs to be dropped again to send a message that cruising isn't accepted at our club.
We much prefer good effort than good talent
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