sack the senior group , then see about wallce
miller must be sacked asap
I think that would only put more pressure on the younger players and hold up our progress further even though most of them are extremely disappointing.
While a wholesale cleanout would be damaging I do believe some players are actually causing our list and chance for success harm. These are no necessarily bad players but they are damaging to our future.
Bowden is a cancer at our club and regardless of how many possessions he gets he can not and will not follow the team goals or even play accountable football. As a defender this should be his utmost priority and as a leader he should not only be doing the team things but ensuring everyone else around him does so also.
Bowden is a midfielder/small forward, he was made a defender because we were desperate (and still are to a diminishing degree unfortunately) for experience in the backline. For all the benefits he brings to our team they are far outweighed but the negatives. IMHO Bowden needs to go.
Richo is holding back our forward line. Our young forwards still need to step up individually but just as importantly they need to learn how to work
together as a
forward team and Richo is stopping this.
Richo plays with visible passion and only has eyes for the ball. He knows how to run, lead, mark and kick and heaven help anyone who gets in his way regardless of what team they are in when he is trying to get the ball and get it through the posts. Unfortunately he can't work for other forwards, the concept is just foreign for him. He will never block another forwards defender to allow them room or lead away to create space or pull out of a marking contest to give another forward a better chance to mark etc etc etc
We need forwards who can learn each others game, learn how to get goals for the team
together and work out how to best help each other. Richo is holding this process back.
Now even though Simmonds, Johnson, Tuck and Brown are underpreforming at the moment they are not holding back anyone. Their exclusion would only place more pressure on our already overburdened young players.
Stripes
