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The answer to a lack of quality isn't to get rid of your few quality players, the answer is to produce more quality players. I hope we have addressed the problems that have led to us producing players like: Black, Wood, MacMillan, Atley, Ziebell, McDonald, etc
Our backline and forward line is going to perform a lot better the stronger our midfield is, we know Thomas, Scott, Simpkin and LDU are going to be a big part of our future midfield outlook, the question marks is about other players.
I hope we can get LDU on the park in a meaningful way this year. Simpkin has already surged in terms of performance level this year, he is top 10 in terms of some hardball stats and he isn't impotent offensively, he has the potential to be elite. We know LDU has the talent, but he needs to get on the park. We know Thomas has the talent, he probably will never get a ton of the ball but we have to structure the midfield to create space for him and actively look to get the ball in his hands on the burst, he will probably do more damage than Wells did offensively if the other pieces of the puzzle are there.
The way Dumont, Polec, Hall and Higgins play I do not think are conducive to that type of football. It is part the individual, it is part the system. Same reason Simpkin sucked when he was waiting to be given the ball in an outside role. We play an ugly stoppage brand of footy and we aren't particularly good at stoppages, we developed this brand to stop bleeding defensively because our midfield was notoriously slow and unable to pressure the ball once it got on the outside but this brand is cancer and it doesn't suit the skillset of our new generation. We need to evolve or we are going to junk the talent we have accumulated recently.
Our backline and forward line is going to perform a lot better the stronger our midfield is, we know Thomas, Scott, Simpkin and LDU are going to be a big part of our future midfield outlook, the question marks is about other players.
I hope we can get LDU on the park in a meaningful way this year. Simpkin has already surged in terms of performance level this year, he is top 10 in terms of some hardball stats and he isn't impotent offensively, he has the potential to be elite. We know LDU has the talent, but he needs to get on the park. We know Thomas has the talent, he probably will never get a ton of the ball but we have to structure the midfield to create space for him and actively look to get the ball in his hands on the burst, he will probably do more damage than Wells did offensively if the other pieces of the puzzle are there.
The way Dumont, Polec, Hall and Higgins play I do not think are conducive to that type of football. It is part the individual, it is part the system. Same reason Simpkin sucked when he was waiting to be given the ball in an outside role. We play an ugly stoppage brand of footy and we aren't particularly good at stoppages, we developed this brand to stop bleeding defensively because our midfield was notoriously slow and unable to pressure the ball once it got on the outside but this brand is cancer and it doesn't suit the skillset of our new generation. We need to evolve or we are going to junk the talent we have accumulated recently.