Post Match Nth vs WC when asked by Dwayne Russell "Is there anything positive to take out of tonight?" Laidley responded with the following :
"Oh look, I thought Sa... Sansbury on Sampi for, before he got tired was, he was pretty good you know, ahh, he's been in terrific form so, I thought Eddie, you know battled away pretty well and I thought, you know, ahh we we took Shannon Watt off for a rest half way through the ahh, second quarter then he came back onto Lynch who'd kicked 4 goals, umm in the first half, and he sort of ended up, and the ball was coming down there, you know, pretty freely in the second half, umm, you know, we psss..., when the score was like it was we decided that well, ttttsssshhh, Wells and, and Harvey and Simpson and Grant were, were more important to us in the home and away so we just, you know, let some of the youngs go, youngsters on there and ahh, you know, look they're a very good side."
So Watt needed a rest after having 4 goals kicked on him. I would have thought that he needed to be dragged after having 4 goals kicked on him.
And if I understand Laidley's eloquent use of the English language correctly, he believes that Watt bounced back in the second half and considered that a positive. Watt has had enough experience at full back that the coach should be demanding he play 4 quarters and not 2.
5 years on & I'm still trying to figure out what the hell this all meant.
Dayne Beams = The Stalk.