Our recent draftees, have they been given the best chance of making it?

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Our recent draftees, have they been given the best chance of making it?

Under Eade, ie from 2005 to now, how many talls have debut for the dogs?

I can only think of Wight, Tiller, Everitt. Thats not much in four years.

This speaks more about Clayton than Eade.


Also regards to young forwards getting better more chances in high levels.
Williamstown seniors and reserves have been top of the tables all year. Reserves in particular handing out some large victories. I would of thought if you can't feature in those games than how would you achieve anything at the dogs?

Williamstown have been different to Werribee and have given the dogs players the priority in selections but the simple fact is our talls aren't good enough yet. O'shea is the leading goal scorer in the reserves and has played half in defence, but most people here would admit he's a total gumby at times. Bouman is 20cm taller than anyone at reserves level and should be dominating. He has started to show a bit towards the end of the season with 7 goals last week but isn't quite up to williamstown seniors level yet. Mulligan apparently can't take a mark over head, Shaw and Grant have been injured all year and the others are the same olds.

With Clayton leaving after this draft perhaps we will get a tall in 4 years time when they are big enough

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Our recent draftees, have they been given the best chance of making it?

Forgetting facilities (particularly weights etc as they dont really matter), the biggest issue we have had - and are trying to address by getting Gotch and Dalrymple full-time - is around development coaches. That is where we have been left behind, and that is why I would agree - until now, our players haven't been given the best chance to succeed.

Mind you, they also need tools - particularly vision - to help teach and I guess that has been lacking as well, but coaches were the main short-coming...

There certainly is a much better focus on this area nowadays at the dogs.

All the players are monitored closely and are given good frank assessments of their performances.

I like Gotch's write up on the Willy boys in the last bugle. Seemed fairly honest to me, no cover up's or sugar coatings.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Our recent draftees, have they been given the best chance of making it?

We have blooded 8 players* in the last two years, that would compare pretty favourably with most sides I would have thought.

*Harbrow, Williams, Hill, Everitt, Tiller, Lynch, Ward, Reid.

Williams and Everitt are genuine talls (when Everitt eventually puts some weight on), Tiller is a sort-of-tall-kinda.

[Ozza]

Re: Our recent draftees, have they been given the best chance of making it?

Except when you have injures, you need back up players.

Of course when you have injuries - thats a given really.
But this year, whilst I'm not sure how we finished up with the stat - I know that after round 15 - we'd used the least amount of players in the league. A sign of staying relatively injure free and running with a stable line up.