Looks good claw does oxley
That's the thing how many kids were playing last night for both times and how many have played for us
We need a change this monkeyball rubbish will scrape you into the finals at best
to me its all about striking the right balance. any side needs it fair share of experienced players going around.footy clubs and teams constantly lose their way with out enough senior players to lead the way.
same for money ball. nothing wrong in targeting players from other clubs and older players but the kids still have to be in the majority. target good proven players in f/a target a list need.
some clubs only target proven players regardless of age. ess cooney 28, goddard 28? chapman 30.
draft for quality trade for needs. ones a long term solution ones a short med term solution. trade for say a quality ruckman we are already in that boat again, get the older player but make damn sure you have a few good ones coming thru the ranks from the draft. we cant say that we havent been able to say it ever.
to me our trouble is we have taken too many gap fillers and we play too many of em. we make the problem worse by not drafting with good picks similar types.and when we do draft similar types instead of biting the bullet taking a little pain we dont play or persevere with those nd picks.
its really exacerbated when its clear blokes are performing poorly and are at their ceiling. its really frustrating when the team is so deficient in lots of key areas that we really need to be better in.
a good footy club would atm be saying. we cant make top 4 we may struggle to make the 8. we are weak here here and here we need to find better players we need to see what some of the kids have got.
as a club we have to dare i say it draw a line in the sand. set the bar when older players fall under the bar play a kid who may not reach the standard right now but shows good signs and has the attributes to make it.
as a club we have failed to do this. we stopped doing it 3 yrs ago.
on oxley its typical collingwood. they have shown a constant ability to find decent players out side of the early rounds of the draft.
atm we are too reliant on mainly the first round to build our list simply put to gain ground we have to play money ball. we have to be much better with our recruiting across the board.
imo there cant be enough emphasis placed on recruiting if we had a spare million id put it into this area.and if thats not enough more we need to become one of the best in this.
