Please let me clear up a few things regarding my thoughts on Edwards;
When he joined the club I really thought we had picked up the next Milne, Krakour, Didak etc.. a player that would really amount to being somethig special. I didn't have the same thought over the years with Patto, Meyers and those types of players that have gone by the wayside.
I stuck by him, waiting, for about 4 years, hoping, backing him in, giving him another year, year after year after year, when others I might add had written him off after 2-3 years. Even this year I stuck by my words and kept my mouth shut until round one...well he wasnt much cop in that game was he.
I do not hate him as I do not hate anyone, it's not in my nature (even al and TFT..
). But to have a good and thats all it was, a good year after 6 years in my opinion does not mean he has proven himself. 8th in the B&F, does it really mean that much for one year out of 6, it shows his inconsistency again. Ok, he had a good year again in 2010, so 2 good years in 6. Morris has played noe year with us and finished higher, Grigg and Houli finished higher and they have only just joined us. I am talking about the new players abouve him, not the older players below him either, thats not mu point.
Players like Riewoldt, Foley, Rance, Deledio but to name a few have had better years than Edwards and they have copped it in the past and some still cop more flak than Edwards.
I have also said at the start of every year "I HOPE HE MAKES IT AND I HOPE HE PROVES ME WRONG"!!!! But in all honesty he hasn't. Will he, who knows, but I have been asking for it and it still hasn't happened. He should be a player that other coaches think before the game...gee who the hell are we going to put on Edwards...I bet they dont. He is not a hard player to stop, look at the recent finals games, there isn't a player in any of those teams that gets thrown around like Edwards.
On my last break I watched about 6 replays of the games from this year as well as seeing one live (during the season of course). Now yes he can do some good things and yes he does set up goals, but not consistently. This is my point, he is not consistent, never has been and for all and sundry to get so upbeat when he kicked 4 I think against GWS....please. He also makes critical errors at critical times in most games. I don't think there has been a game I have seen where he hasn't turned the ball over with a basic errors, but hey there may of been a time, I just havent sen it.
Plenty of you have your whipping boys, Jackson, Gus, McGuane, Post, Foley, Dea, Rance, Grigg, Houli....long list isn't it!!! Mine is Edwards, but at least at the start of each season I say.."I HOPE HE MAKES IT AND PROVES ME WRONG", I say that because I mean it. But I am not so sure he will, especially after watching the finals games, he will need to put on about 10kg more.
In all honesty we should of traded him in 2010/11, but now we have have him and until he proves me wrong I will be sceptical. It dosen't matter how many times I have a go at him or the repedativness of my comments it is no different to the posters that carry on continuously about other players....or have a go at players like Riewold for winning the Coleman.
So I hope I have cleared it up for you all.....
Go Edwards..
