Daniel, everyone canned me about this last year.
They are miles ahead of us.
Essendon bottomed out for 6 months and are heading back up.
we bottom out for 5 years and are still heading NO WHERE.
As for the young players, they had 14 players under 25 games last night.
Where is Mightytiges with his stats about the Tiger young players?????
Problem is that our young players arent much good besides one or two
Good on Essendon and good on Knighta I say.
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6 months lol. They've been in the bottom 8 since 2004 which is why Sheeds finally got the flick and had earlier picks than us in 5 of the past 7 drafts. That's been our problem. Finishing 9th-10th has never done us any favours so we could rebuild faster and properly.
I'll judge the Bombers after round 22; not after one game lol. They were awful against Brisbane the week before and against North with a more experienced side but of course the Bomber lovers on this site conveniently go missing when they are losing
. When their Russian roulette all out attack gameplan works they look great with their quick movement of the footy but when it doesn't they get hurt badly the other way. It worked a treat on Friday night as the Hawks are the walking wounded at the moment and are playing too many injured/underdone players. Essendon ran them off their feet. You've got to question though if this gamestyle is sustainable over a whole season. There's a reason why they were forced to play such an inexperienced side and why they are always losing players to injury. It takes a toll on the body to play this way. The same thing happened last year.
Richmond had 15 players 23 and under on the weekend btw. We are still a young side despite math-dumb journos who think an age average is the only way to measure the youngness of a list
. A new and more importantly the right younger coach next year with a fresh voice, new ideas, and who the younger players can relate to, will have the job of turning them into a disciplined team. The confidence lacking will only come once they show team discipline. At least this new coach will have a young core to start off with and better facilities to train them on and in. Something his predecessors never had because we had no money. Liam Pickering the other day mentioned how one young Tiger he manages didn't have a development coach until his third year. 25 years of neglect in all areas of the Club isn't turned around in a few years.