Teflon wrote:Gee so great to read insightful, informative footy news in the media.
Roos nicely tells us all what we know......we are carrying to many players who are not up to AFL standard...lets face it guys like Mqualter, Eddy and
Peake wouldnt get a game elsewhere.....yet we expect them to be Premiership players....
I also reckon some of our B Grade stars are very borderline:
Jones
Kosi
Dempster
Zac
Ray
Gram
Roos spells it out brillaintly.
The good news is we are a few smart trades and development of some talent in our kids away from improving this bottom area but it requires some smart navigation...
Roos does write an extremely good article... but it doesn't say what you think it does. What he actually says is the opposite: that most Saints didn't play up to their ability, and wouldn't have left the ground satisfied with their efforts.
From the article:
"The [Saints] best six is very hard to find. Brendon Goddard and Hayes were again standouts, Gilbert, Fisher, Gwilt and Dawson probably round out the top six. But clearly too much was left to too few.
Of the rest, who could you say played at or around their capability?
Perhaps Jason Blake, Sean Dempster and Schneider.
That is nine players at best who could walk off the field reasonably happy with their own performance."