for the griffiths lovers, are there any left i have a question.
if in charge of the list would you be planning the future around ben griffiths and i will throw vickery in as well, or would you be hedging your bets,
on exposed form and time in the system a person would be crazy to do so.
Would persevere with Griffiths over Vickery. At least Griffiths lays tackles, takes contested marks and has a crack and I believe he can still be educated to offer something up forward - Vickery looks disinterested half the time and for the amount of time, faith and perseverance put into him by the caching staff Im very concerned by what he's dished up to date.
would agree with that. prefer to give griffiths another season than vickery. long term we must look to replace both of em though. the attitude based on what we have had for 6 and 4yrs respectively has to be they wont be good enough and we load up with tall fwds accordingly.so what im saying is yeah keep one or even both if need be would trade vickery, but do something about the real possibility of neither of them making it.
where will we be at if in all likelyhood both fail in 2 or 3 yrs time. i keep saying load up with tall fwds until we are sure we have what we need.
unfortunately for us vickery has just had a contract extension and wont be going anywhere until the end of 2016. ah list management.we have 3 200cm ruck/fwds
me i cant see how we can hang on to all three mcbean, griffiths, and vickery, one of em has to go and griffiths is out of contract. see ya ben you make way for a pure kpf like mccartin..and yeah i know this contradicts in some ways what i said above.i dont think you can hang onto 3 players of the same type based purely on hope and a prayer. you have to address the deficiencies.
Yep, it's simplistic to say we overachieved last year - can you really over achieve by that much? List has holes no doubt but we ain't the Saints.
you sure can. you see it all the time. bloody hell our own past history says so.look at 2001/2002. sometimes the simple things are the true and right reasons.
last yr we were a 5th thru 14th side.in this i mean there was little difference between those 10 sides fighting for the bottom 4 spots in the 8. we had a lot of things go our way in fact we could not have asked for such a dream run. in this context i ask did we greatly over achieve to me the answer is no.it was never ever going to take much to derail our yr. or take much improvement from sides around us to go past us.
my gut feel last yr was melbourne before roos was even appointed could potentially finish above us this yr or be close., wb was another.the only two teams i felt who had no chance this yr was stkilda and brisbane.this was done based on some pretty simple criteria.thats how even i thought the competition.
i think people forget there are 17 other teams all striving for what we are. we arent stkilda atm but continue to fail in key areas and we soon will be.
