Jen2310
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True, but sometimes you don't get what you want when you enter the system. Just gotta have some patience. A week wont hurt, plus he'll get lots of training in.
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It won’t hurt him at all, I just would have thrown him in at the deep end. Ultimately think his talent will be more beneficial than carrying a VFL listed player who knows the system
Jen2310
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Possibly, but they know best. He'll be deep into so much education and information in the first few days anyway.
Won't hurt him to have a coach watch the VFL game with him from the sidelines and try to explain what our game plan is and how he'll fit into it. Talk about Begg as a ruck and where he likes to hit it (if he gets near it). Etc.
Game plans aren’t that hard to learn.
Jen2310
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Fly said that there are some players that have been here for 6 months struggling with the game plan, so they can't expect someone here for a week to learn it.
If a player is struggling with a game plan after 6 months that’s an issue
Jen2310
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I imagine the kids from last year. Some take it quicker than others.
Game plans are all fairly simple. If players are getting lost they are dumb. As a full time footballer there is no excuse
Based on your AFL experience?
Please explain our game plan for us simpletons
Always high and slow 30m kicks. He was never overly ambitious with his kicks, but it was effective…
yep can't beat highly experienced prejudice.
Abdul_The_Bull
All Australian
Clearly, I'm no expert, but I would have thought that for a young lad coming into the club mid-season would need to go through some inductions and assessments before he even thought about playing senior footy. The medicos and health & conditioning staff would want to get some baseline data from him and discuss any possible deficiencies and/or issues. It's not like he has come through the system and spent a pre-season with the squad so he will need to time to develop his place in the team and to earn his place. This may take a week or two but I'd be surprised seeing him with a senior gig within the first month. Again, I'm no expert so I may be wrong, but I suspect there is much to achieve before simply running out in the seniors.
Don't talk logic. We want hype
It is pretty basic, built off territory and pressure. If you had 6 months of sitting in team meetings learning it there is zero excuses not to know it
What like the medical examination he did pre draft?
sr36
TheBrownDog
I'm surprised he's not playing. They regularly drop top up players into the vfl, assumedly without much prep
From a physical standpoint I can’t see any reason not to play him. From a game plan standpoint I feel as if the good outweighs the bad.
sr36
TheBrownDog
There's knowing it on paper. There's consistently following it on the field whilst thinking. Then there's doing it without thinking. There's a few steps. But when Mcrae is talking about players not knowing the game plan, it's probably as simple as some are still getting sucked into the contest sometimes when they should be holding their spacing.
sr36
TheBrownDog
Yeah, I think it's a bit precious.
The Royal Sampler
Floreat Pica, Bitch!
^ there’s also the physical requirements to execute it. Many of these new draftees won’t have the tank to do it at game speed for four quarters.
Sorry what? He is fit enough to dominate the SANFL over 4 quarters but not fit enough for the VFL?
Look I get that part of it, but players will always get lost. That’s why you need strong leadership especially from the guys down back.
