Player Watch Mitch Podhajski

[JLC]

It’s frustrating for you, imagine how frustrating it would be for our selection committee?

When a senior coach announces at a presser that he’s excited to debut a player who has been in the club for 12 days because it will free up 6 other players on the field to be able to properly play their role …

… that doesn’t reflect too well on the other options, does it?

Is that what Fly said?

That comment makes absolutely no sense.

If you moved around/disrupted 6 players or they are impacted by 1 player then that is poor.

 

[TradeDraft]

I'm with ya Dave, by the end of the year Westy should be a fixture up front for us..."Skunk's" done his job for the couple of seasons he had left but the selectors couldn't have forseen all the injuries (to Moore, Steene, Hayes and of course Billy) along with the continued absence of Bobby Hill that have left our front half disjointed and for the most part toothless.

Did you see West's second half last week in the reserves? He was clunking marks for fun and only a case of the yips stopped him from kicking a bag. I reckon he reminds me of Jack Riewoldt, undoubtedly talented but Jack took a good 3-4 years and 50 odd games to really make his stamp on the competition. The job now is to get Westy in and playing regularly (if we still had Billy playing I reckon West would have already been given the nod over Membrey). Our structural pieces need to start being Frampton, Howes (yes Howes over Moore at CHB), Anderson over Long (until Neale gets here next year), McStay and Moore at FF with West as the lead up forward.

So yeah Dave, still got lots to look forward to with Charlie West (and a few of the other young ones).

I went to Casey Fields on Saturday and Saw West Play and he was Massive in last Qtr took some very strong Marks and big reason why we got up to beat Casey.

Just wished he Kicked a Bit Straighter but lot at the Club at the Moment have that Issue

 

[TradeDraft]

Yeah I want Darcy to play the Rocca 2002/3 role - centre bounce and then move forward.

Did you see what Happened when he played Ruck this year?

 

[sr36]

Did you see what Happened when he played Ruck this year?

He was behind and trying to catch up to the ball drop - it was actually an action more likely to happen in defence than in a boundary line throw in.

 

[76woodenspooners]

Is that what Fly said?

Yep. Ahead of last week’s game. And he went a lot further than that in his barely contained frustration with our youngsters.

That comment makes absolutely no sense.

… to you?

If you moved around/disrupted 6 players or they are impacted by 1 player then that is poor.

Fly is a Premiership winning coach of a team that two years earlier were washed up hacks and talentless youngsters who finished 17th? Surely we have to give him some credit for knowing what he’s doing? And what he does do is likely beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals?

 

[JLC]

Yep. Ahead of last week’s game. And he went a lot further than that in his barely contained frustration with our youngsters.



… to you?



Fly is a Premiership winning coach of a team that two years earlier were washed up hacks and talentless youngsters who finished 17th? Surely we have to give him some credit for knowing what he’s doing? And what he does do is likely beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals?

Fly has received more than enough credit and is a good coach. However, he needs to remain accountable.

For example Slot won a league title for Liverpool. One season later he is Gonski. The fans easily could have swallowed the shyte he was spinning to the fan base and said "he knows what he is doing", "we are mere mortals" Thankfully sanity prevailed and he was moved on.