Can hardly make out what your trying to say with the spelling of a 4 year old. You talk too much for a guy with no sense.
Gourdis played a blinder was rewarded with a senior game and looked horrible. Doesn't always work like that.
We don't have a gun first 22 players that need our reserves to play blinders to take positions off them. We carry our last 10 players picked.
Common sense prevails, drop guys who aren't playing well. We haven't got playing ripping up the VFL to come in. Would you like to play with 16 players instead?
And cut the Coliingwood crap out
l know l have brought it on myself owning a membership, its just to make it easy to enter games with my family.
l hate Collingwood with a passion just like Carlton. The Melbourne membership is carried on for my late father because Melbourne is my second club l follow taking him to games when he was unable to take himself. Same as he was a Richmond member so he could take me to games when the club was powerful & winning premierships in the 60, 70, as a kid growing up it was the greatest thing to see & hear.
Now back to the football topic Lets debate thisGourdis got rewarded because of continued good form you say,
"Oh thats what l was saying" you just contridicted my post. players must play well over a period to be rewarded. Why drop Gourdis for 1 bad game when he is clearly the best defender at Coburg & played several consistant games there for all of us wanting him to be selected. Let him settle & learn how to play with the senior list. That cannot be achevied on the training track. It can only be done in a game under preasure at that level. l find that de-selection a bit of a shock considering Rewoldt is out of form.
We could use that as a example of Griffiths in for Rewoldt but l wont cause Rewoldt is clearly in our best, But needs a reminder to get on top of his game. He has no injury as said. Players who carry bad hips from previous games dont try to outmark 200cm giants who are marking well
Thursfield clearly has no form to be rushed in, We know his coming back from injury & played 1 game at Coburg (?) was he in the Coburg best because l never looked. He lacks match fitness at any level & it will show by halftime in a AFL game. This is not fair nor should be done to the other players in the squad, to pick up for a player who will run out of match fitness & be a burden on the rest. Maybe Dimma will manage him through & if so l hope he does lead by example cause someone down the backline need to stand up & help mold a defence.
McGuane clearly needs dropping, His game is riddled with flaws. Shouldnot be recalled till his game is clean. Honestly l dont know where his at.
Defense is where we are losing the games. Send Millar down the back is what l would do. He does have good skills & is strong. We have forwards in Rewoldt & Vickery so maybe this is the structure to bring in Griffiths. His also been down the backline but l would prefer him in the forward if fit. l got nothing against Griffo if he works & maintains his body. l got nothing against Rewoldt by BTW apart from berating his own teammates when he is clearly not in good form.
The only way for Dimma to fix the defence is to build it himself over the next few years with drafting new KPD, the type that will mold around our running backmen Deledio who is backing himself with his ball & carry & confident. Even Newman is making crucial mistakes but the preasure is constantly on him.
Now the other thing is all of us are saying how bad some of these players went on the weekend. None of us have given credit to Melbourne who's team were cocky & came to play football.
1 other thing you said we dont have a gun 22 players for our reserves to take positions off, Thats a good comment & if thats the case you dont reward players like Thursfield or Griffiths that dont have form by pushing out a player like Gourdis after 1 bad game.
But l'm not the coach or do l know his thinking & its obvious to me he knows what his doing cause he is a premiership player at 2 clubs & been involved in premierships at several clubs but l have faith in him. If Thursfield & Griffiths are in then we will just have to watch & if l'm wrong then l will face my critics. If l'm right l still dont get nothing out of it because my team might lose.
Edited: as the original offending post has been edited, therefore the quote referencing it has been edited as well
