Preview Changes: R21 2019 vs West Coast

[oldntired]

Nearly swallowed my false teeth when I realised I read the team selections wrongly.
I actually read the emergencies as the bench players and thought the selectors had had an epiphany.
EPIPHANY what our selectors?????????????????

 

[Slippery Pete]

Can someone tell me where our 22 today ranks in terms of average age with the other teams in this round?

 

[Anzacpaul]

Can someone tell me where our 22 today ranks in terms of average age with the other teams in this round?

Fossilised.

 

[Bender20]

Can someone tell me where our 22 today ranks in terms of average age with the other teams in this round?

We are gifting about 6 players with a farewell match. But they will probably be gifted another next week.
It's not the age but the one dimensional, one paced is the issue.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

No words needed. View attachment 723938

My reaction to our team selections this year.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Look at the Gold Coast. Battered from pillar to post. Those kids will struggle to break free of that losing culture.

So we are better off playing experienced underperforming players because they are good at losing?

The best way of fixing a losing culture is dropping poor performing players, rather than having a culture of accepting mediocre performances.

Blight brought in young players regularly for pressure games & we went ok under him.

 

[Schulzycrow]

Eagles by 120 plus. Today’s game could get ugly.

We lose by 120+ that is hitting every branch falling down the ugly tree..

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Carlton were s**t for how many years? Is that what you want for us? Brisbane been s**t since the mid 2000s

Edit. Let me just say I think we should have been playing the kids too for the better part of the season. The ongoing selection of Douglas and Mackay is bewildering. Having said that, I’m not convinced this is the right game to bring the kids in.

The sooner we bring in the kids, the sooner we develop our next group of players for a flag.

You learn more from hard times than easy times!

 

[footy4ever]

After having 2 coaches die, plus 2 unborn children of club leaders..... it would take huge amounts of resolve.

We can only imagine what this all did to our players, Tex and Rory in particular. It'd be easy for our players to adopt the view after experiencing something of the magnitude of those events, that football just isn't so important, and rightly so. I'd use it as a spur however, which after a while I think the players did, but the burden's quite possibly become overbearing.

 

[jackster83]

We can only imagine what this all did to our players, Tex and Rory in particular. It'd be easy for our players to adopt the view after experiencing something of the magnitude of those events, that football just isn't so important, and rightly so. I'd use it as a spur however, which after a while I think the players did, but the burden's quite possibly become overbearing.

Getting blamed by the coaches for the GF disaster and then being sent off to Kamp Birdman has destroyed them.

Pyke and Burton are complete assholes.

 

[MRB37]

Atkins is screaming to be dropped and Knight is just a plodder. Why do we back them in after beating up on 14th in a dour affair..

At this point I'm sure Atkins only gets a game because he's a left footer.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Look at the Gold Coast. Battered from pillar to post. Those kids will struggle to break free of that losing culture.

Jenny we lose nothing playing Jones ahead of Douglas and Gallucci in DMac's role

I do wish Pyke was more like Clarkson

Clarkson knows when to stop playing players who will not be part of the next premiership assault and he starts to get games in what he calls his next generation group

Clarkson's main goal isn't about making the 8 this year, he is focused on winning another flag in the next 3 years, there is the difference

Also GoldCoast get battered because they have zero experience, Carlton also cut their list too thin, however if we did play the likes of Jones, Fog, Ned and Easy more regularly this season there is still a wealth of experience in out side to support this change

Unfortunately the strategy of going back to under-performing senior players has created a selection expectation amongst the senior players that experience comes before performance and this is why we are now seeing senior players get the sooks when they are eventually dropped

it has become a real issue that has been created by a risk adverse selection policy

 

[ShadeyP]

Disagree.

Throw them into the fire, if they fail..... Throw them in again until we know for sure.

It worked for Nigel Smart

 

[Scorpus]

At this point I'm sure Atkins only gets a game because he's a left footer.

That and he runs a lot. Not productive running, but he's usually in our top players for km run in a match. We love that.

 

[FR0GGY]

Carlton were s**t for how many years? Is that what you want for us? Brisbane been s**t since the mid 2000s

Edit. Let me just say I think we should have been playing the kids too for the better part of the season. The ongoing selection of Douglas and Mackay is bewildering. Having said that, I’m not convinced this is the right game to bring the kids in.

All the more reason they should still be s**t and players be scared.
Years upon years of shitness not just a season here or there.

 

[FR0GGY]

Disagree.

Throw them into the fire, if they fail....
Promote them

Think we’ve just found our staff recruiting strategy.