Disagree Claw ..Vickerys body is where the ball is but alas not his brain
vickery becomes extinct in just about every game he plays.so i suppose we disagree.
have said this before if you could combine both vickery and griffiths you might get a good player. but even then that player would lack hunger and competetiveness he would still only play the game on his terms.
look the point im making here is not so much aimed at griffiths or vickery.
it more about the shocking processes we go thru as a club. no one can argue we have regularly constantly and repetetively hung onto far too players for far too long who have been down right ordinary and shown little or no improvement in performances.
this kind of list management is killing us and has killed us for the last 30 yrs.
i understand that in trading out or cutting players with talent like vickery and griffiths you may give away what becomes a decent player. but from list management point of view we must be prepared to take that risk.
in turning over players it will happen not just to us but all clubs it comes with the territory.we will also trade out players that never do a thing.
for me we are at a stage where we cant afford to rely on these blokes becoming very good players we must at the least have a plan B in place.
all ive really said up to now is they dont look likely, lets load up on talls, so we are in a position to cut these underperformers if need be.
its only this yr that ive actually called for vickerys head. that is for us to trade or delist him. yes ive been highly critical and will remain so. ive always advocated we keep him but ffs in keeping him get some GENUINE kpfs tall fwds into our sytem thru the nd.
my view is we have mcbean, vickery, and griffiths, all 200cm players and fair dinkum no one can say if we have a genuine kpf among the 3 of em. imo we have 3 fwd/rucks or ruck/fwds we dont need that number. we are in a position to trade one out and we should. lets go out and draft a cameron type or gunston or cloke type lets get one of these types big natural fwds and cut one of underperformers that atm is neither a good enough fwd or good enough ruckman. of the three ive mentioned griffiths is by far the worst performed trade him out and lets go search for that badly need second kpf.
