Thought he had a good game. Played up and down the ground. Kicked a beautiful goal from a good mark. Set two others up with two thumping kicks deep into the forward zone.
What about the sitter he dropped from a kick in from GWS? 10m clear and sh/7 himself.
If you think that was a good game, I feel sorry for ya. And did I mention he didn't have a tackle.
there was 10 players who only had 1 or fewer tackles in this game. what a disgrace.
typical griffiths game where he shows the odd glimpse but there is little substance to his game. those glimpses keep on reeling them in.
Did more than Riewoldt for the game. Nobody is suggesting we drop Jack. So he should be given another chance.
dont think anyone has suggested he be dropped. yes riewoldt had a shocker and deserves criticism as well. thing is riewoldt has runs on the board and has actually played a lot of footy at the required level.
griffiths has hardly played a game at the required level in 5 yrs.
anyway you wont have to worry about griffiths being dropped. ATM THERE IS ONLY ONE OTHER OPTION AND THAT IS ELTON. Ist a sad state of affairs duds playing in the seniors and no juniors or reserves to put pressure on em and take their place.
Big tone suggested we drop him in the changes for the bombers thread.
I would drop him never to be seen again.
Griffith will never make it at AFL level.
We should start a 'put your balls on the line and say who you think will or will not make it thread' and revisited it every year. I'm happy to start with Griff.
It may sort out the posters that vote with their heart as opposed to the ones that don't.
im happy to participate in that thread. i reckon i do it anyway.
with the talls i always refrain from calling for their heads until after yr 4. im probably vickerys harshest critic but ive only called for us to cut our losses with him this yr.
im happy to make a call on em earlier based purely on weaknesses and performance.
i reckon my first nomination would be vickery.
also i think people are missing one critical aspect of what i was saying with fjs drafts. we can argue about who is just a player edwards for instance but where is the quality outside of the top 5 picks. its not just about the ones who have made it and become decent players wheres the b and a graders outside of those top 5 picks.
having to have this debate with people sums up our club as well. we know we have to raise the bar even on okay players but when someone points this out noone it seems wants to acknowledge the need. deficient players are good enough it seems when people ask for the bar to be raised just a bit higher. surely people realise if we dont aim higher set the bar higher we will do what we always do and that is see sides shoot straight past us.
if juniors are safe in the short term we need to turn over at least half the list ffs we will turn over 18 20 players in the next 3 yrs as a normal practice.
its not hard to see the likes of jackson, chaplin, edwards, newman stephenson, foley, maric, knights, king, will have to be replaced in that time frame just from age alone.
we have a list that can only take us so far we have to turn over the likes of houli grigg edwards etc, the fact that a lot of these blokes are in the top 22 or 25 players just emphasises the amount of players we need to turn over.
if we aim high we may just accomplish something but we fail as supporters and a club to set the bar at a decent level and demand the best.
im sorry end of rant, this yr is likely to be my last so i carry on a bit. if they cant do the basics do what is needed at the end of this yr i wont be going around again im over supporting an organisation that continually sticks its head in the sand and fails to learn pretty simple lessons.