Sheedy and Kickett

[Grendel]

Interesting that Sheedy has decided to bring up an old wound in the eyes of many by dragging Derek Kicketts omission from the 93 premiership side as a warning to his current day players to not slack of training.

While i understand he is using this as a psychological ploy to keep his team focussed for the rest of the finals, i do wonder what Kickett would be making of it.

Sheeds reckons that though Derek was selected in all games that year, his attitude to training had 'dropped of' and so he decided to give him the flick in the week that was going to be Kicketts highlight of his playing career.

Now my question is this, surely if a player has become lazy or slack in their attitude towards practice and training sessions it is the coaches job to take that player aside BEFORE it gets to the stage where dropping him may become necessary. If not, how can any blame really be directed towards the
player? They may (rightly i would imagine too) presume if they had played all the games that year leading into such a huge game that they hadn't been doing anything wrong in the lead up to that game.

Why then should they be the ones to cop the brunt of something that though they have contributed to, as they really aren't the final arbitrators in how they train and play?

Ive always felt tremendous sympathy for Kickett over this, for Sheeds to bring it up again now i understand in many ways yet really he should at least take partial responsibility over Kicketts form
and training. That was and is his job after all.

 

[sandie]

Grendel
I was very sorry for Kickett missing out, maybe he had been warned about his slacking off & didn't do anything about it.
No one but the inner sanctum at the Bombers could know, so I think you are judging Sheeds without knowing the full facts.

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Mantis

 

[Dave]

Grendel,

Whilst I feel sympathy for Derek there is no doubt his form and attitude in the three finals he played warranted his exclusion. He was extermely ordinary, preferring to play for free kicks rather than get the damn football. I for one was quite happy with the decision to exclude him for Dean Wallis, though I'm sure Mil Hanna might disagree.

[This message has been edited by Dave (edited 18 August 2000).]

 

[walshy1993]

grendel while kicketts training performance may have had something to do with his omission he also hadnt had a kick in the finals series and on form didnt really deserve a spot, although it was sad to see a great player miss out is did turn out to be a good move

 

[Grendel]

Actually the dropping of Kickett wasnt really the point i was trying to make. More that the opportunity to either drop him earlier from the side, or really give him a spray or talking to that if he didnt lift performance then he would be struggiling to hold his place.

I saw quite a few of those games he played in late 93, hard to get match fitness or good form when you are left on the bench as much as he was.

 

[Dave]

Grendel, yeah I understood that - how do you know they didn't give him a spray as you've suggested?

[This message has been edited by Dave (edited 18 August 2000).]