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- Con Gorozidis
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2012 starts now
We need to stop with the delusion we are going to suddenly flick the switch back to 2009 and just start winning games and have any impact come finals time. We are a long way behind the top 4 - Pies, Cats, Blues, Hawks.
(yes - someone will tell me we only lost to the blues by 3 points).
There are numerous reasons for our poor 2011 showing. Many of them are off-field related. Some on-field. But regardless, we need to start a fresh mental campaign . Just holding up the dam walls and battling through 2011 is just tiring for everyone.
Start planning for 2012 - get games into kids. Get some players (Sippo, Cripps and Gamble come to mind) on serious weights programs.
Find out of Lynch, Walsh, Stanley, Winmar want to be there in 2012.
Start looking at a trading strategy (gee that Guigan guy for Carlton is helping them out).
Start looking at assist coaches.
Start managing senior players workloads and mental stress.
The aim should be to know who our best 22 is by Round 8 next year. Then just stick with a core 22 and have a real crack at it.
(yes - someone will tell me we only lost to the blues by 3 points).
There are numerous reasons for our poor 2011 showing. Many of them are off-field related. Some on-field. But regardless, we need to start a fresh mental campaign . Just holding up the dam walls and battling through 2011 is just tiring for everyone.
Start planning for 2012 - get games into kids. Get some players (Sippo, Cripps and Gamble come to mind) on serious weights programs.
Find out of Lynch, Walsh, Stanley, Winmar want to be there in 2012.
Start looking at a trading strategy (gee that Guigan guy for Carlton is helping them out).
Start looking at assist coaches.
Start managing senior players workloads and mental stress.
The aim should be to know who our best 22 is by Round 8 next year. Then just stick with a core 22 and have a real crack at it.
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Re: 2012 starts now
Not sure how it's going to be possible, but we simply need some gun young players to arrive on the doorstep of the club.Con Gorozidis wrote: Start looking at a trading strategy
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I still cant quite get my head around how the Pies landed Jolly and Ball when they were already top 4.Johnny Member wrote:Not sure how it's going to be possible, but we simply need some gun young players to arrive on the doorstep of the club.Con Gorozidis wrote: Start looking at a trading strategy
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It's called DRAFT TAMPERING!!Con Gorozidis wrote:I still cant quite get my head around how the Pies landed Jolly and Ball when they were already top 4.Johnny Member wrote:Not sure how it's going to be possible, but we simply need some gun young players to arrive on the doorstep of the club.Con Gorozidis wrote: Start looking at a trading strategy
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Yes the world isnt fair.FortiusQuoFidelius wrote:It's called DRAFT TAMPERING!!Con Gorozidis wrote:I still cant quite get my head around how the Pies landed Jolly and Ball when they were already top 4.Johnny Member wrote:Not sure how it's going to be possible, but we simply need some gun young players to arrive on the doorstep of the club.Con Gorozidis wrote: Start looking at a trading strategy
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The only positive that might come from 2012 is if we find one or two more young kids that are capable of playing 100 or more games.Con Gorozidis wrote:We need to stop with the delusion we are going to suddenly flick the switch back to 2009 and just start winning games and have any impact come finals time. We are a long way behind the top 4 - Pies, Cats, Blues, Hawks.
(yes - someone will tell me we only lost to the blues by 3 points).
There are numerous reasons for our poor 2011 showing. Many of them are off-field related. Some on-field. But regardless, we need to start a fresh mental campaign . Just holding up the dam walls and battling through 2011 is just tiring for everyone.
Start planning for 2012 - get games into kids. Get some players (Sippo, Cripps and Gamble come to mind) on serious weights programs.
Find out of Lynch, Walsh, Stanley, Winmar want to be there in 2012.
Start looking at a trading strategy (gee that Guigan guy for Carlton is helping them out).
Start looking at assist coaches.
Start managing senior players workloads and mental stress.
The aim should be to know who our best 22 is by Round 8 next year. Then just stick with a core 22 and have a real crack at it.
The next opportunity for entertainment in 2011 will be trade time.
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Will be interesting then, because the 4-6 least effective are not the traditional 'bottom 6'samoht wrote:From next game on .. I reckon.
The 4 - 6 less effective players should make way for the kids.,, provided they performed at a good level in the VFL.
Walsh, Winmar, Ledger, Stanley, Smith, Simpkin, Lynch , Siposs etc.. (pity Cripps was injured) .. 4 to 6 should be played each week.
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i think clubs are always planning for their long terms.Con Gorozidis wrote:"planning for" 2012 starts now.Sainternist wrote:Wow, it's already 2012?!?!
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we still have season 2011 to play out, don't we?
This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph.
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