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Rather than take a changes the direction of an match day in's and out's thread and take it off topic, I've borrowed this quote from Pete and it's come from this thread.
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/changes-vs-bulldogs.999179/page-11#post-27811550
I agree with what Pete is saying and we need to change the culture of how we develop players before we have another generation of failed draftees.
However, this has been going on ever since Gary Ayres walked into the front doors at West Lakes back in October 1999, this has been occurring. Sadly, it's almost become ingrained into the culture of the club. Neil Craig didn't fix or change this and Brenton Sanderson is doing his best to follow suit.
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the bridge between being an SANFL player and the AFL and the coaches developing that faith to play the younger, less experienced players or the fear to bottom out.
Although, the discussion about younger players is very integrating and got me thinking - why do we always seem to have a mature aged team and is this best for the future of the club.
I was watching the NBA this morning and they were talking about how Kobe Bryant injured his Achilles Tendon and how Dwight Howard would handle the pressure and distractions of being the go to guy in LA.
OK, LA and Adelaide are not the same and the pressures, demands and distractions are similar on wanting our team to lose and the opposition set of fans wanting us to lose and lets the players know. Both ways - positive and negative.
In South Australia, it's common knowledge we don't have a pumping nightlife, not really the issue but we have been able to hold onto a fantastic football culture. Add Port Adelaide to this football supporter equation and their set of fan, and this brings a football different set of pressures and expectations from the day to day lives of AFL footballers that some of our players have never experienced before.
Now, bring this back to the Crows and we have this demonstrated this ability to develop a side that can only take us so far. Weather it's just bad lucky that we lose preliminary finals, 5 or 6 losing preliminary finals in 12 years and our window closes very quickly or do our players get burnt out by the off field demands and subconsciously can not handle that pressure being applied positively and negatively.
I feel we should be looking at ways that we can turn the 15 to 30 listed player over much quicker as to start eliminating any pressure, comfort or focus on winning. Therefore, we should be giving more younger players a change and for longer periods of time and then delist or trade them.
We need to stop giving player 3 or 4 years to find their feet in the SANFL before delisting them. They have 15 months and then we need to give them 20 AFL game or they are gone.
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/changes-vs-bulldogs.999179/page-11#post-27811550
It's the stop- start development people have a problem with. Both Lyons and Lynch played games last year. But bringing them back now, it's like they're making their debut all over again.
If you're going to play a kid, you need to make the call about his readiness and then leave him in the side for a period of time. This is what needs to happen with Crouch now, but it should have already happened with a couple of the others.
I agree with what Pete is saying and we need to change the culture of how we develop players before we have another generation of failed draftees.
However, this has been going on ever since Gary Ayres walked into the front doors at West Lakes back in October 1999, this has been occurring. Sadly, it's almost become ingrained into the culture of the club. Neil Craig didn't fix or change this and Brenton Sanderson is doing his best to follow suit.
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the bridge between being an SANFL player and the AFL and the coaches developing that faith to play the younger, less experienced players or the fear to bottom out.
Although, the discussion about younger players is very integrating and got me thinking - why do we always seem to have a mature aged team and is this best for the future of the club.
I was watching the NBA this morning and they were talking about how Kobe Bryant injured his Achilles Tendon and how Dwight Howard would handle the pressure and distractions of being the go to guy in LA.
OK, LA and Adelaide are not the same and the pressures, demands and distractions are similar on wanting our team to lose and the opposition set of fans wanting us to lose and lets the players know. Both ways - positive and negative.
In South Australia, it's common knowledge we don't have a pumping nightlife, not really the issue but we have been able to hold onto a fantastic football culture. Add Port Adelaide to this football supporter equation and their set of fan, and this brings a football different set of pressures and expectations from the day to day lives of AFL footballers that some of our players have never experienced before.
Now, bring this back to the Crows and we have this demonstrated this ability to develop a side that can only take us so far. Weather it's just bad lucky that we lose preliminary finals, 5 or 6 losing preliminary finals in 12 years and our window closes very quickly or do our players get burnt out by the off field demands and subconsciously can not handle that pressure being applied positively and negatively.
I feel we should be looking at ways that we can turn the 15 to 30 listed player over much quicker as to start eliminating any pressure, comfort or focus on winning. Therefore, we should be giving more younger players a change and for longer periods of time and then delist or trade them.
We need to stop giving player 3 or 4 years to find their feet in the SANFL before delisting them. They have 15 months and then we need to give them 20 AFL game or they are gone.