There seems to be a disconnect between the blokes that draft and the blokes that pick the team.If only we played Gallucci ahead of spuds like Mackay, then he might be up to 40 games like some of the others on that list
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There seems to be a disconnect between the blokes that draft and the blokes that pick the team.If only we played Gallucci ahead of spuds like Mackay, then he might be up to 40 games like some of the others on that list
It wasn’t just the camp, have a look at the top 10 from our 2017 B&F and how many were injured or mismanaged in 18.
All new players are an unknown, for every Grigg or Summerton there’s a Ryan, Rioli, Collins, Burgess, Fritsch, Menongola.
Yeah West Coast did very well, lucky for them they’ve haven’t had the same issues we have because they are well run.
There seems to be a disconnect between the blokes that draft and the blokes that pick the team.
Try harderHuh the blokes that draft, have drafted the entire list
Your comment makes no sense
Also between the blokes who give out best and fairest votes and the blokes who pick the teamThere seems to be a disconnect between the blokes that draft and the blokes that pick the team.
What's even more bizarre is we know Pyke specifically wanted a player like Gallucci at the draft, then proceeds not to play himThere seems to be a disconnect between the blokes that draft and the blokes that pick the team.
What's even more bizarre is we know Pyke specifically wanted a player like Gallucci at the draft, then proceeds not to play him
Didn't we also give up good picks for Menzel & Curtly Hampton that year ?
Our trading wasn't too flash either
And traded Lyons also
He rated him enough to specifically request we draft him
Probably more hits than misses
Betts, Sauce, Lynch, JJ ,Gibbs
Which is reasonable logic until you assess the B&F voting against selectionThen see what he is capable of having trained and played for the last 2 years under him and has based his opinion on his first hand knowledge
Which is reasonable logic until you assess the B&F voting against selection
Which is reasonable logic until you assess the B&F voting against selection
It's pretty interesting to build a best 22 based on 2018 B&F voting
B Brown - Talia - Doedee
HB Smith - Keath - Laird
C Milera - Sloane - Gibbs
HF Lynch - Jenkins - Douglas
F Greenwood - Himmelberg - Betts
R Jacobs - M. Crouch - B. Crouch
I Atkins - Seedsman - Ellis-Yolmen - Knight
Note that Taylor Walker isn't in our top 22 players, and I considered positions to ensure every place was filled. Otten, while ranking highly, was not considered in the initial round due to his near-identical polling to Doedee.
From here we do have to make five injury changes for Douglas, Seedsman, Brown, Doedee and Jacobs.
The next players in should be Jones (assuming we rate him highly) for Douglas, Gallucci for Seedsman, Mackay for Brown, Otten for Doedee and O'Brien for Jacobs.
Players in the best 22 who would be most under fire for their position should be, going on the voting, Betts, CEY, Jacobs, Knight and Himmelberg, with Greenwood, Atkins, Lynch and Douglas in that next tier. Players who shouldn't even be considered are Kelly, Hartigan and Murphy.
I mean doesn't this sound reasonably close to what a lot of us are saying here?
Tex missed a chunk and when he did play he was severally underdone not having had a preseason.pretty sure Sloane was the only one to miss a significant number of games out of the top 10
Im not saying Mcadam wont get some traction, but he is unlikely to be a world beater, I could be wrong but most SANFL WAFL or VFL players are there because they dont quite have it, a few occassionaly make it but the are hundreds of players playing in those leagues who just dont have it
Last year saw our guns fail, this year is the same agian lets not kid ourselves about some camp or a heap of injiuries
I am happy to play the kids, some will succeed, some will be servicable and some will fail, we will cop pain from it, but it needs to be discovered, another year out of the finals isnt the end of the world, but the club want to be competitive, thats the problem they will play AFL capable players who offer no future like your mate Mackay, and will make the finals becauue they arent terrible players, and have output where if you play Hunter, McHenry, Jones, Davis, Fog you may get inconsistency with good and bad games and it will cost us as they will have less output , but at least we will know if they have anything to offeer long term
Bite the bullet I say
Tex missed a chunk and when he did play he was severally underdone not having had a preseason.
To bad its up to the guy who has his arse in the sling, to choose the team, not on what everyone else thinks
And rightly so, as he is the one who will lose his job
Yes, it's on the coaches to select the side, not the coaches who vote in the B&F
A minute ago you said only Sloane missed and now it’s Tex missing 9 games.He played because he put his hand up and said Im ready, he missed 9 games and played crap in the others no different to this year
Like I said the guns failed as they did in the GF, unfortunate, but it is what it is
The older they get the more likely is they will fail
May aswell cop some pain and see if the next batch has what it takes as no one has any idea including Mcadam if they are any good
But you cant whinge when we fail to make the finals by playing youth
The biggest problem is Pyke would rather be competitive than bottom out
A minute ago you said only Sloane missed and now it’s Tex missing 9 games.
Yes he played, when he was clearly underdone and this supports my point that our preseason was mismanaged and
our fitness program was ****** as evidenced of us sidelining Burton and bringing in Saunders.
Any chance we had last year was sabotaged by Burton, there’s no denying it.
As for this year, these players are another year older and that’s why last year was so important and why he should have been sacked.
I’ve never whinged about missing finals because we’ve played youth, I haven’t had to, we’ve never done it. West Coast on the other hand have and look at the premierships they’ve won.
The problem we have doing it this year is the pick swap so there is no way we will do it. Plus we have these guys on contracts for 2-3 years, our hands are tied, we are not going to have them playing sanfl for a couple of years.
Yea, losing Mackay's 12 possessions last week would've really hurt us.
Seriously I just hope I live long enough to see the team play without Mackay for 6 weeks in a row. Just to see how his replacement goes and whether it improves the team
I don’t need world peace. Just that