by holden78 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:42 pm
To Rons credit hes always promoted youth with enthusiasm , its been his lack of success with some mature age types (not being good enough recruiting them to the club ) or ( falling out with them ) . Then theres the ones that we have kept too long also . Falling out with John Mcarthy back in the middle of 01 may have cost us alot on Grand Final day that year . For a couple of years we tried to get the prolific Beams from Tasmania , but Ron couldnt do the deal ( maybe coz tight ass board ? ) . Ron kept Frewen , Nieman , Hall , Newit , Prescott , Pedlar & now Colville all passed their real used by dates , instead of facing the tough decision to cut them for the betterment of the club . Yes finding replacements isnt easy , but its critical if your going to stay at the top in this competition . When you dont excell in recruiting mature age recruits , its easy to promote youth , theres really NO other alternative ; just ask Andy Collins at West ! So yes hes good at giving the kids a go , but now we have too many at once & not all of them are going to set the world on fire eg. Gogoll ! Fuller is responsible for the performance & list !