JakeNeadeFan
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- Nov 25, 2019
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Our SANFL team is uncompetitive trash. Not only is it losing team with a losing culture, it also is evidently a horrible place to develop both young and mature players.
On paper I just can’t believe this team is wooden spoon worthy. There is something more going on here - and over the previous two years - that has impacted the ability of this team to perform. Dumont, Bonner, Mead, Jones, Hayes, Lycett, Clurey. These guys are seasoned AFL professionals. And week-in, week-out they are made to look like amateurs by brick-layers, accountants and marriage celebrants. They are made to look slow, soft and unskilful.
It is a ******* joke. It is a disgrace. And no one is held accountable. Goldsack, one of the chief architects of this s**t show, was promoted. Cam Sutcliffe who, must be the worst Port Adelaide captain ever, was reappointed. The show goes on and the club suffers.
Is it strategy? Is it standards and behaviours? Is it training throughout the week and off season? I don’t know - but what I do know is that this level of ineptitude is not conducive to a successful football club.
And the actual performance is not even the worst part. The development cliff is approaching and the SANFL side being what it is has dried up the pipeline of new and emerging players.
Over the past 3 years I can’t think of one young player in our team who has made serious strides and improvement playing in the SANFL team. Even enormously talented players, like Bergman, are terrible at this level when it should be the case that these guys dominate. In Bergman’s case, it wasn’t until he returned to the AFL that he actually started to get back on track.
Players who have parts of their game that they need to improve on make zero progress. Lachie Jones is still a fumbler and bumbler at the lower level. Georgiades still panics. Jackson still gets thrown around like a ragdoll.
In fact, regression is more common than development. Sam Hayes has literally regressed. Has literally got worse from like age 20 to age 23. He used to be a reliable hit out dominant, goal kicking and marking ruckman. Now he regularly gets beat up by the Sam Baulderstones of the world whilst we have no options for ruck at AFL level.
And that’s not to even mention playing guys out of position and in random positions. Why is Teakle playing fullback if you see him as your next up ruck man. Why!?
Back in 2017-2019 we had a competitive side and you could actually see players get better and build AFL skills. The Dan Houstons, Dougal Howards, Darcy Byrne Jones, Kane Farrells of the world. Nowadays I would happily delist everyone in the SANFL team. I would replace them all with Sturt players or Norwood players - other SANFL teams genuinely appear to have more AFL ready players.
The Crows SANFL team is another good example. I don’t think they have much more talent in that team then we do but like 100000x better and their players transition to AFL football much easier.
We desperately need to solve this issue. I believe it is the biggest issue facing the club at the moment. And that starts with ******* off most of the staff involved with the SANFL side and starting again.
On paper I just can’t believe this team is wooden spoon worthy. There is something more going on here - and over the previous two years - that has impacted the ability of this team to perform. Dumont, Bonner, Mead, Jones, Hayes, Lycett, Clurey. These guys are seasoned AFL professionals. And week-in, week-out they are made to look like amateurs by brick-layers, accountants and marriage celebrants. They are made to look slow, soft and unskilful.
It is a ******* joke. It is a disgrace. And no one is held accountable. Goldsack, one of the chief architects of this s**t show, was promoted. Cam Sutcliffe who, must be the worst Port Adelaide captain ever, was reappointed. The show goes on and the club suffers.
Is it strategy? Is it standards and behaviours? Is it training throughout the week and off season? I don’t know - but what I do know is that this level of ineptitude is not conducive to a successful football club.
And the actual performance is not even the worst part. The development cliff is approaching and the SANFL side being what it is has dried up the pipeline of new and emerging players.
Over the past 3 years I can’t think of one young player in our team who has made serious strides and improvement playing in the SANFL team. Even enormously talented players, like Bergman, are terrible at this level when it should be the case that these guys dominate. In Bergman’s case, it wasn’t until he returned to the AFL that he actually started to get back on track.
Players who have parts of their game that they need to improve on make zero progress. Lachie Jones is still a fumbler and bumbler at the lower level. Georgiades still panics. Jackson still gets thrown around like a ragdoll.
In fact, regression is more common than development. Sam Hayes has literally regressed. Has literally got worse from like age 20 to age 23. He used to be a reliable hit out dominant, goal kicking and marking ruckman. Now he regularly gets beat up by the Sam Baulderstones of the world whilst we have no options for ruck at AFL level.
And that’s not to even mention playing guys out of position and in random positions. Why is Teakle playing fullback if you see him as your next up ruck man. Why!?
Back in 2017-2019 we had a competitive side and you could actually see players get better and build AFL skills. The Dan Houstons, Dougal Howards, Darcy Byrne Jones, Kane Farrells of the world. Nowadays I would happily delist everyone in the SANFL team. I would replace them all with Sturt players or Norwood players - other SANFL teams genuinely appear to have more AFL ready players.
The Crows SANFL team is another good example. I don’t think they have much more talent in that team then we do but like 100000x better and their players transition to AFL football much easier.
We desperately need to solve this issue. I believe it is the biggest issue facing the club at the moment. And that starts with ******* off most of the staff involved with the SANFL side and starting again.
