i havent seen this game as yet so cant comment on player performances.
imo i think we have one of the worst lists in the comp. thats not to say we dont have promising players coming thru we do and we may even have more than i think. but these kids need to develop. this takes time.
now i dont want this to become a bag fest of the team or a criticism after a win. bloody good on em a few wins wont hurt em.
but we have been here every yr for the past 5 yrs.
a couple of wins and all must be well at the club and with the list.
the reality is we won a game against a side that was injury riddled has won just five games and lost their last 7 or 8 games in a row.
we beat wce quite convincingly in a game where most actually would have picked us to win. how many have the coasters won since 07 15 of what 70 odd games.
the other win against port where are they how many in a row have they lost 8 or so. good sides dont lose that many games in a row.
like i said im not having a go at em all you can do is go out and win against what the opposition put up. but to see threads like this where we are a contender well its plain ridiculous.
i can understand the optimism this time around. unlike previous yrs we have had a couple of wins primarily on the back of some promising kids. but sheesh perspective is something that is totally lacking with our supporters.
by all means enjoy the wins when they come, god knows they have been far and few between. but lets not lose sight of the amount of work that still has to be done we are nowhere near being a contender.
in fact we are a bottom 4 side who has taken some baby steps in the right direction.
rather than sitting back on what we have done thus far we need to build and significantly improve on many of the players on the list.
imo i think we have one of the worst lists in the comp. thats not to say we dont have promising players coming thru we do and we may even have more than i think. but these kids need to develop. this takes time.
now i dont want this to become a bag fest of the team or a criticism after a win. bloody good on em a few wins wont hurt em.
but we have been here every yr for the past 5 yrs.
a couple of wins and all must be well at the club and with the list.
the reality is we won a game against a side that was injury riddled has won just five games and lost their last 7 or 8 games in a row.
we beat wce quite convincingly in a game where most actually would have picked us to win. how many have the coasters won since 07 15 of what 70 odd games.
the other win against port where are they how many in a row have they lost 8 or so. good sides dont lose that many games in a row.
like i said im not having a go at em all you can do is go out and win against what the opposition put up. but to see threads like this where we are a contender well its plain ridiculous.
i can understand the optimism this time around. unlike previous yrs we have had a couple of wins primarily on the back of some promising kids. but sheesh perspective is something that is totally lacking with our supporters.
by all means enjoy the wins when they come, god knows they have been far and few between. but lets not lose sight of the amount of work that still has to be done we are nowhere near being a contender.
in fact we are a bottom 4 side who has taken some baby steps in the right direction.
rather than sitting back on what we have done thus far we need to build and significantly improve on many of the players on the list.
I've bolded some points for extra discussion.
- Agreed, it will take time to develop the kids and we will have a couple more years like this one as we develop them. But as you allude to later on, our wins have come off the back of these kids, not off the superhuman effort of a Richo, or the smartness of a Bowden. This makes these wins different to those that have occurred in previous years. We had 4 first year players playing on Saturday (martin, nason, astbury, griffiths ) and a lot of other players with less than 50 games experience (collins, connors, cotchin, farmer, graham, king) many of whom were in the votes in the votes thread. We can take heart in this.
- Not all is well with the list. Names like Thomson, McMahon and Hislop still need to be cut. But this is where it becomes more interesting, at the start of the season delisting a king or a white and drafting some unknown kid would have made a great deal of sense. As they couldn't be much worse and could be a lot better. Now they are showing some form that suggests they could be depth players at least, maybe even more. Which raises the question do you get rid of them in the hope of getting something better but potentially making us weaker, or do you keep them for depth? Our trading as much as our drafting at the end of this season will impact whether we kick on or not.
- Rightly at the moment we are a bottom 4 side. One month ago we were wooden spooners elect. I don't believe that any of the other sides are tanking yet (though the demons are tantalising poised on 4.5 wins
) so if we get off the bottom in the next few weeks it will be a true reflection of where the list is at.
- "rather than sitting back on what we have done thus far we need to build" couldn't have said it better myself.

