The only reason we should be discussing Paul Chapman is to talk about that the Cats know when to move on their older players.
Chapman has been in great form, but Geelong have slowly introduced a new batch of kids and haven't missed a beat.
It's time the Tigers got ruthless with a few players and backed their kids.
i disagree with this.
imo geelong have it wrong. chapman would easily be in their best 10 still yet alone 22 and isnt stopping them playing any kid. where does this myth come from why do people think playing chapman and playing kids is mutually exclusive.
does enright still get games. or kelly or bartel or stokes arent they keeping kids out of games which quite frankly hasnt happened at geelong anyway. their kids have got games despite the abundance of outstanding mature players because they have shown enough and performed well enough at vfl level and when they play seniors.ffs if chapman is not rubbed out they probably win a preliminary final and play off in the g/f.
this bloke massively influenced games when he came back from his hammys last yr and he has massively influenced games this yr.
here we are a club coming off finals and looking to do better and we cant even look at a high quality player who would replace a hack like jake king in the side.and address a serious list need. instead we went after blokes like banfield and lloyd, i have to ask is chappy keeping a kid out at essendon of course not. is fletcher keeping a kid out or are they going to lose kids because of em absolutely not.
is matt thomas keeping arnot out of our side what a dumb way to look at it. blokes like shane edwards are keeping arnot out.
im all for giving blokes like miles arnot helbig elton a game and we stop gifting games to blokes constantly underperforming in the seniors . but lets not jkid ourselves about the majority of our juniors. these kids in the main are nothing like geelongs and have not earnt a game.
what juniors are we going to play, our juniors aged 21 and under are.
conca - imo should be dropped hes so out of form. he is one junior regularly getting games.
arnot
darrou
ellis regular
elton
lennon been injured,
mcbean
mcdonough
mcintosh
ohanlon
vlastuin - regular
williams
outside of the regulars who are the rest going to replace and out perform.
its not quality players keeping juniors and development players out of our side its hacks like grigg king petterd edwards etc.
and to the poster who clearly hasnt watched chappy over the yrs or done a shred of homework on him and his injuries. he doesnt have paper hammies and he is remarkably resiliant when it comes to injuries. hes played a minimum of 19 games every yr from 2003 to 2012. the only significant amount of time he has missed games was last yr when the cats admitted they bought him back too early from his initial hamstring injury. he hasnt missed a game since.
the thing we most need is quality he is a good fit at essendon and he would be an even bbetter fit with us.
if we had gone and got quality like essendon did with chappy and goddard i have no doubt we would be 3 and 0 with finals a real possibility. but hey it seems posters think medicre plauyers will take us further. they prefer to see the likes of king and edwards running around.
