Coach Alastair Clarkson - NMFC Senior Coach - Coaching & Football Discussion

Remove this Banner Ad

There is an alternate timeline where he realised his whole potential and was still on our list.
****ing around with talented players by giving them 'a role' is what kills them.

Kinda funny that we now have Parker on our list when we should've had Harper be the player we needed. Showed so much talent in his first two years but then disappeared rapidly after that. Injuries, setbacks, bad form in VFL and then delisted. If we're going to pay high, we need to invest just as much as the price we paid. Give it absolutely everything for that player to make it.

Kinda ironic that DuckYeah is complaining about development and yet also complained about getting rid of Tarryn Thomas. We couldn't develop any level of consistency or improve his character. Was that due to the lack of development resources from when we drafted him?

It comes back to my original point. We've witnessed other clubs find a way through and yet we're still stuck in the maze.
 
and how much did we stifle Lmac's development? Pick 8 is a pretty serious investment.

I'm sure playing him as a lockdown defender stuck in the back pocket helped catapult his career. Yep, it catapulted him into a dumpster fire that's what happened.

One best and fairest medal in a horrible year during the pandemic. That's all we got.

Shaun Atley suffered from the same problem. Electric pace and disposal but chuck him at half back because that makes sense. We only had the slowest midfield ever at our disposal so it made sense to not play him in the guts from the get go because two-way running doesn't exist.
Electric disposal from Atley? 😂 ya kidding yaself. He couldn’t kick when we drafted him. Shit kicks are always shit kicks
 

Log in to remove this ad.

Electric disposal from Atley? 😂 ya kidding yaself. He couldn’t kick when we drafted him. Shit kicks are always shit kicks
I can pull a lot of tapes from his first few years. He was a very reliable kick at full tilt. Largely the reason we became a very good offensive side in 2012.

You're thinking of the bloke that got 200 games under his belt but didn't have much to show for it. The recency bias is a bit too strong here.
 
I can pull a lot of tapes from his first few years. He was a very reliable kick at full tilt. Largely the reason we became a very good offensive side in 2012.

You're thinking of the bloke that got 200 games under his belt but didn't have much to show for it. The recency bias is a bit too strong here.
Hahaha he blasted it over leading players heads.. settle down. He was a ****in cabbage that didn’t deserve to be a 200 game player
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Because like all those other players there was nothing to develop. It was very poor recruiting.
But was it poor recruiting or poor development? Can you name anyone from our development program other than Gavin Brown all the way through the 2010s? Who was overseeing Bastinac's progress? He was putting on a show against Geelong! Geelong! 26 possessions and 4 goals! In his third year! Then a few years later he is traded after his form drops considerably and I guarantee you the posts in his player thread back then would be complaining about the exact thing I've raised as an issue tonight.

Maybe a few of those players had some limitations. But you do your homework right away and work around them like every other club does. You find a way.

Not everyone needs to be a superstar but you can develop a consistent team. We need sustainable consistency and that comes with spending the time and money on development. Why recruit that player if you're gonna do **** all to improve the strengths and weaknesses?

We may as well keep recruiting delisted players if we can't recruit for shit. It doesn't make sense. There are far too many names that didn't make it to just be 'we can't recruit'.

We're experts at killing talented players except the select few that do somehow make it. That's how it's been for the last 20 years. Need to change that.
 
Last edited:
But was it poor recruiting or poor development? Can you name anyone from our development program other than Gavin Brown all the way through the 2010s? Who was overseeing Bastinac's progress? He was putting on a show against Geelong! Geelong! 26 possessions and 4 goals! In his third year! Then a few years later he is traded after his form drops considerably and I guarantee you the posts in his player thread back then would be complaining about the exact thing I've raised as an issue tonight.

Maybe a few of those players had some limitations. But you do your homework right away and work around them like every other club does. You find a way.

Not everyone needs to be a superstar but you can develop a consistent team. We need sustainable consistency and that comes with spending the time and money on development. Why recruit that player if you're gonna do **** all to improve the strengths and weaknesses?

We may as well keep recruiting delisted players if we can't recruit for shit. It doesn't make sense. There are far too many names that didn't make it to just be 'we can't recruit'.

We're experts at killing talented players except the select few that do somehow make it. That's how it's been for the last 20 years. Need to change that.
It was identified as a shortcoming when Clarkson and Viney were appointed and now we've rectified it. Anyone can see that it's a good move.

Sent from my SM-A908B using Tapatalk
 

Remove this Banner Ad

Coach Alastair Clarkson - NMFC Senior Coach - Coaching & Football Discussion

Remove this Banner Ad

Back
Top