- Sep 22, 2008
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- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Banned
- #11,976
Im not going by the assumption he’ll return to his best im just saying that im loathe to judge him or anyone completely on their recent poor form (if they’ve shown better in the past) when the whole team has been on a similar decline and weve been such a poorly coached and run team.Yep. I'm not saying Smith is a poor player or no chance of returning to the best footy that he has displayed in his past.
Just that ... consistently, it better to treat the players their form, and assume what is the best predictor for their future success is obviously their most recent form and not some distant form in the past.
If we're going by the default assumption that Smith will return to how good he was, then we need to be fair and equally apply that to every player, and also assume that they'll return to how good they were.
Will Jacob Hopper be one of the game's best onballers for Richmond for the rest of the season, like he has been in spurts at GWS? Nobody is saying that, because we are doing the common sense thing of judging him on his most recent form (obviously).