Quote Originally Posted by Ozza View Post
Wasn't it great to see Didak falter so badly in the big game. He shouldn't have been playing.
You can't take petrified players into a Grand Final unless they are in spectacular form.

Jimmy Bartel - what a player. Just goes to show that you don't necessarily need a stack of pace or athleticism to be a champion - what a footballer.
My biggest rant in Football is why in the last 10 to 15 have football clubs looked at athletes and gone on some sort of athletic abillity and not football nous.
The draft combine is some sort of little athletics comp to me and records jumps and speed etc and recruiters go on this???
Bit like trying to get into the swimming olympics and the requirements are to kick a footy 70 metres.
I think it was only last year Buckley bought in some sort of football use test.

I personally would be looking at the natural footballer, you can improve speed etc but football brain is born into you.
Williams, Wilson Liberatore and many more wouldnt have got a look in nowadays and they are Brownlow medallists.