What if I told everyone the club spoke to the parents during the week advising he would start as sub. They also have offered to fly them to Adelaide the following week for a starter Thursday. The fitness team were keen to ease him into AFL.
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Given their recent record, why are we listening to the fitness team?
I’d say then the club has done right by the lad and family. Still should’ve played at least 1 qtr
Agree. What an honour to be selected to play for this great team and get a taste of what's to come. Club first, it's not about individuals.
In all probability as from reports Banks didn't have a good game at VFL level over the weekend so that makes him an odds on certainty to be picked over someone showing good form
He was coaching with the feelings for Mansell, Pickett, Dow or Short as he has been all year. If he couldn’t read we were dying by the 20 min mark of the second quarter and who the culprits letting us down were then he’s got a lot of learning to do. We were like a cork in the ocean by 3/4 X and bingo no goals scored in the last and totally overrun. Your point is an over reaction and way off the mark as we needed fresh legs whether it was a first gamer or a listed player. The sub needed to be activated and that’s why the win was never likely going to happen against our arch enemy as Yze missed his opportunity by being loyal to the players who have constantly let him down in his first season. One of those needed to be subbed off.
Unfortunately the club came second because he wasn’t activated as we were dead by three quarter time.
3 kicks
2 clangers
moral outrage explosion
was as underwhelming a 10 minutes as samson ryan's full game debut and everyone has lost their *smile*
imagine a full game of 12 clangers - the screams may not have even been as loud
obviously, what you do in your first game, unless you are an all time great, is get a taste of AFL
anyway i guess this is what happens when you are 17th and have a terrible percentage
2 clangers
moral outrage explosion
was as underwhelming a 10 minutes as samson ryan's full game debut and everyone has lost their *smile*
imagine a full game of 12 clangers - the screams may not have even been as loud
obviously, what you do in your first game, unless you are an all time great, is get a taste of AFL
anyway i guess this is what happens when you are 17th and have a terrible percentage
Hmm, I'd can suggest a number of primary reasons Tigers were dead by three quarter time. Not substituting a back-flanker in earlier isn't one of them.
We were gone and needed run. Then why make a HBF sub? I know your logic, but if you are dead and buried as you’re saying then at least put the kid on .
Maybe Yze knew an injury or 3 was coming so was just being patient.
Exactly. And this happened IIRC, Pickett subbed off, Lefau then got injured so we were down a player. Did it matter at the end of the day? Probably not but Yze was still trying to win a game.
it is also the lack of interchange- if we subbed say Dow, then lost the other 2, we play the last 15 minutes with just 2 players on the bench. Whats the chance someone else then hurts themselves cos they cant get a rest when they should.
