so whats important to you when taking a mature player. all i ever get is broad statements from people they never say why we should not take older players or if we should what criteria.
its a lot like your last reply i call it fence sitting.
i mean to say i come with both the pros and cons and all i cop is fence sitting.
as for the maric jamar thing i apologise. if you havent noticed until recently i would come on here for an hour and three weeks later come on again. the reason is ive always felt this site too clique if you like.very hard to break into circles and too few posters.
thing is im now at a point where forums dont do it for me any more just too many who wont give reasons for their stands. i get fed up losing the theme of a discussion on single points. usually because someone rates a player higher than another.or if you dare say something negative about a player. thing is its impossible to talk about list management or recruiting without mentioning players. and thats the two areas im into.
ok, once again dont raise so many points at once. Something i learned early on in this caper, is that by raising too many points, even if if you feel you backing up your original, it makes it too easy for someone to sidetrack.
as for what to look for in older players, it depends on where your side is at.
I argued for the getting of Bradshaw, because i saw an experienced player who could help out the younger forwards. In the end though, he wanted 3 years an i thought that was one year too many.
As it turns out the club got better value for money with Miller, because the purpose was not so much the player's on field performance, but other things they brought, and he could be aholed at any time that suited.
If we go back to podsiiadly, when he was rookied by geelong I dont think he was what we needed, at the time, as he still had a learning curve in front of him, whereas we need afl experienced players, of strong and sound character, as senior members. He would have bought very little in terms of experience and would have struggled in a side that was still a long, long way off in terms of playing to game plan and structure.
he was though a good fit for geelong, because they were a well oiled machine and he could easily fit in. he wasnt expected to lead , but to learn and do his job simply as a footballer.
we are now approaching a stage where an older player performing at a high level in a lower league may be of some benefit.
But i wont make a broad reaching statement about whether it is always a good or bad thing to do. I prefer to make a judgment on each scenario as it raises itself, on it's merits as i see it, at the time.
If that's fence sitting, then i have a picket or two firmly up my lemonade and sars.
