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Footy Club Survivor 3: Hawks Back to Back
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I highly recommend everyone bookmarking this link of the current list
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tp-hawthorn-hawks
Click on "games" or "age" and you can order the list by "games" or "age"
Things to consider, teams with experience, and with good players in the 24-28 age bracket win games (though if you properly manage your older players, Geelong 2011, Hawthorn 2013-2015 have shown that can be extended to 24-30 or 24-32)
So we are trying to always put a competitive team on the park, while developing the next group of talent
One of the ways we can cheat the system here is recruiting young players like Gunston, Impey, Mitchell and O'Meara as you are inserting young players into the side with 50 games of experience in there. Letting another club give them their first 20 games when they may not have deserved a spot in the best 22 at the time
Now it's great development for a kid if you are the only, or one of say three inexperienced players in a team
If you don't get the balance right, and you never play kids then you go off a cliff
If you don't get the balance right, and you play too many kids then you get spanked most weeks, there isn't enough leadership on the ground, and the actual developmental value of the games you are pumping into the kids is diminished
During the 3peat years we really only were pumping games into Hill and Duryea
Since then, we've been getting games into Langford, Ceglar, Sicily, O'Brien, Brand, Burton, Howe, Hardwick plus others who haven't played 10 games yet
So how many 100+ game players in the 22 is ideal, how many 50+ game players. How many under 20 game players can you play in the one side?
There's a school of thought that you only want 3 kids in the side at any one time (one mid, one forward, one back)
Anyway our club isn't run by idiots, so before you start blasting the match committee for why they are playing Shoenmakers, Langford, Henderson, or Duryea ahead of some Box Hill kid that you think will be a star, consider maybe the selection committee are looking at team balance in terms of age/experience, maybe the selection committee feels in the long term that playing another season at Box Hill is required as your future star isn't ready for AFL and will develop better at Box Hill
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tp-hawthorn-hawks
Click on "games" or "age" and you can order the list by "games" or "age"
Things to consider, teams with experience, and with good players in the 24-28 age bracket win games (though if you properly manage your older players, Geelong 2011, Hawthorn 2013-2015 have shown that can be extended to 24-30 or 24-32)
So we are trying to always put a competitive team on the park, while developing the next group of talent
One of the ways we can cheat the system here is recruiting young players like Gunston, Impey, Mitchell and O'Meara as you are inserting young players into the side with 50 games of experience in there. Letting another club give them their first 20 games when they may not have deserved a spot in the best 22 at the time
Now it's great development for a kid if you are the only, or one of say three inexperienced players in a team
If you don't get the balance right, and you never play kids then you go off a cliff
If you don't get the balance right, and you play too many kids then you get spanked most weeks, there isn't enough leadership on the ground, and the actual developmental value of the games you are pumping into the kids is diminished
During the 3peat years we really only were pumping games into Hill and Duryea
Since then, we've been getting games into Langford, Ceglar, Sicily, O'Brien, Brand, Burton, Howe, Hardwick plus others who haven't played 10 games yet
So how many 100+ game players in the 22 is ideal, how many 50+ game players. How many under 20 game players can you play in the one side?
There's a school of thought that you only want 3 kids in the side at any one time (one mid, one forward, one back)
Anyway our club isn't run by idiots, so before you start blasting the match committee for why they are playing Shoenmakers, Langford, Henderson, or Duryea ahead of some Box Hill kid that you think will be a star, consider maybe the selection committee are looking at team balance in terms of age/experience, maybe the selection committee feels in the long term that playing another season at Box Hill is required as your future star isn't ready for AFL and will develop better at Box Hill
