Just wish we could get a premiership coach who could take us to another GF.
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If you take a step back from that position the answer might have been as simple as "we see you as the CHB for this club in 2022 and we will give you an extended run at it to prove your worth". "Your days of filling in with the rucks and forward spots are behind you".
The retention of players doesn't stop with a contract offer. That's the easy part and you need to sell the vision of support and development.
In 2018 Young got 2 games
in 2019 he got 5.
In 2020 he got 1.
In three seasons he missed selection in over 50 games- for a team that was often dysfunctional.
In 2021 he was overlooked for most of the season. Then got a few games in the ‘ruck crazies’ era.
Any player who can hack that treatment is an imbecile.
If that happens I’ll be quietly cheering for him, as I have with Young and Lippy (except when they play us). I’d really thought Schache was showing some good signs towards end of last season and this season incl VFL. Bevo clearly disagrees and yes it is likely to do with timidity. I look at players like Aish who’ve forged a pretty good career without being courageous and feel we could have been more supportive of all 3 and possibly reaped the benefits whilst still in RWB. It is what it is though and I know the MC know way more than we do, including synergy with other players, non-negotiables etc. Hopefully with Darcy, English, Naughts and Marra (and whatever other KPP we bring in) we will not regret losing reasonable backup talls. No-one can convince me (on current or past form) Cordy or Gardner could have done better then Young last night. I thought he did well in a pressure cooker environment against Brown who is a reasonable forward and good mark.
The other point with what you say there is that in 2019 they made a concerted effort with Young to play him in the 2's and teach him the trade down back. He was told to forget about being the intercept defender but learn the trade on how to play on key forwards. Then in 2020/21 for whatever reason he wasn't given a key defender role. Our loss because he looks such a better player who can now play man on man as well as intercept.
By all accounts he didn't exactly keep himself in the best shape during the Covid years. You can't promote a guy if they don't deserve it.
Sometimes a change of clubs is needed for a player to really knuckle down.