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Heppell Captain.
Leadership group Hurley, Merrett and McGrath.
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Heppell Captain.
Leadership group Hurley, Merrett and McGrath.
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Any idea's on what Tim is actually trying to say??
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Essendon great Tim Watson believes there is an interesting element to his former club’s leadership group for 2020.
The Bombers announced a new leadership group last week which saw Zach Merrett elevated back into the mix as a vice-captain, alongside Michael Hurley and Andrew McGrath.
Dyson Heppell will again captain the Bombers, with midfielders Devon Smith and Dylan Shiel removed from the 2021 version.
Watson believed it said something that the pair had been axed after just one year in the mix.
“From the outside it does look like that (a hokey-pokey leadership group),” he said on SEN Breakfast.
“It’s a bit curious isn’t it, how that judgment can be made on somebody (Like Zach Merrett) that they’re in the leadership group, then they’re out of the leadership group and then they’re back in a period of three years.
“I think more interesting for me was that Dylan Shiel and Devon Smith have gone in for just the one year, that says something doesn’t it.
“They were considered by the group at that time that they were leaders, they were in there for 12 months and it was a difficult 12 months for everybody given we went through COVID and the hub and that type of thing.
“You have input form the players and the staff, then they vote on different categories and criteria. For me… it paints the picture from the outside that there’s some misunderstanding and disconnection around that group of players that needs to be corrected if that team is going to push forward and be a successful team.”
Essendon legend queries club’s leadership changes for 2021
Essendon legend queries club’s leadership changes for 2021
www.foxsports.com.au
Essendon great Tim Watson believes there is an interesting element to his former club’s leadership group for 2020.
The Bombers announced a new leadership group last week which saw Zach Merrett elevated back into the mix as a vice-captain, alongside Michael Hurley and Andrew McGrath.
Dyson Heppell will again captain the Bombers, with midfielders Devon Smith and Dylan Shiel removed from the 2021 version.
Watson believed it said something that the pair had been axed after just one year in the mix.
“From the outside it does look like that (a hokey-pokey leadership group),” he said on SEN Breakfast.
“It’s a bit curious isn’t it, how that judgment can be made on somebody (Like Zach Merrett) that they’re in the leadership group, then they’re out of the leadership group and then they’re back in a period of three years.
“I think more interesting for me was that Dylan Shiel and Devon Smith have gone in for just the one year, that says something doesn’t it.
“They were considered by the group at that time that they were leaders, they were in there for 12 months and it was a difficult 12 months for everybody given we went through COVID and the hub and that type of thing.
“You have input form the players and the staff, then they vote on different categories and criteria. For me… it paints the picture from the outside that there’s some misunderstanding and disconnection around that group of players that needs to be corrected if that team is going to push forward and be a successful team.”
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Any idea's on what Tim is actually trying to say??
Essendon legend queries club’s leadership changes for 2021
Essendon legend queries club’s leadership changes for 2021
Essendon great Tim Watson believes there is an interesting element to his former club’s leadership group for 2020.
The Bombers announced a new leadership group last week which saw Zach Merrett elevated back into the mix as a vice-captain, alongside Michael Hurley and Andrew McGrath.
Dyson Heppell will again captain the Bombers, with midfielders Devon Smith and Dylan Shiel removed from the 2021 version.
Watson believed it said something that the pair had been axed after just one year in the mix.
“From the outside it does look like that (a hokey-pokey leadership group),” he said on SEN Breakfast.
“It’s a bit curious isn’t it, how that judgment can be made on somebody (Like Zach Merrett) that they’re in the leadership group, then they’re out of the leadership group and then they’re back in a period of three years.
“I think more interesting for me was that Dylan Shiel and Devon Smith have gone in for just the one year, that says something doesn’t it.
“They were considered by the group at that time that they were leaders, they were in there for 12 months and it was a difficult 12 months for everybody given we went through COVID and the hub and that type of thing.
“You have input form the players and the staff, then they vote on different categories and criteria. For me… it paints the picture from the outside that there’s some misunderstanding and disconnection around that group of players that needs to be corrected if that team is going to push forward and be a successful team.”
I believe he's trying to say there is an interesting element to the club's leadership group for 2020.
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Just leave the smart ass answers to me, I have much experience
The serious answer would be that it is strange to have Merrett be in - out - in over the space of 3 years, with Smith & Shiel both only doing 12 months in, then being out, and Hurley having been out - in - in.
To me that shows a lack of consistency internally as to who and what a leader should be, and the lack of continuity is a bad thing. Worsfold's player driven philosophy may well be the right one for a mature playing group with strong individual leaders that can drive standards, e.g. a peak Hodge, Riewoldt or Selwood type. But it seems in hindsight to have been the wrong option for EFC over the past few years.
Young guys like McGrath, Ridley, Langford (who knew?) and even a young-ish guy like Merrett may be the kind of guys that can be the player driven types, but they aren't the 'senior' group.
Shiel & Smith may not be the guys who can drive a top-down leadership group forward.
It seems to me like Rutten has made the final call on who the leaders will be, which means he's going to be driving the expectations from the top-down. Which, in my opinion at least, is what a young playing group needs.
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