Round 7 - North v Norwood @ Prospect - Post Game Reviews

[nickname]

Francou might not have been at the Port game, but I do think his work in the media can't be ideal. It was bad enough with Jarman, who always had that larrikin/clown image he portrayed when he was offering expert opinion (and the fact North were fairly competitive under him) but Francou is straight faced trying to tell everyone what Port and the Crows need to do in order to be succesful. I noticed the other week he did the old Jarman trick of talk up the AFL listed player who tore his side apart. If the heirarchy at North aren't wishing they'd not gone down that track again perhaps they should.

Well he is only a part time coach despite being on good $$$ so unless it directly affects his coaching / commitment to North then he is entitled to seek extra $$$ through media work. His media work is not the reason why North are bottom - his and Greg Edwards selection of recruits and not addressing some depth at Prospect are the problems and the Board needs to take them to task over this ASAP.

I thought you defended the club's recruiting pre-season when one poster suggested North hadn't recruited well. You asked if he didn't think Hill and Miles were quality recruits.

[on the rails]

Miles has been our only decent recruit to date and I rate Hill and can't work out why Francou won't play him as he thinks he lacks versatility but how versatile does a 6 ft 6 inc ruckman have to be - he is better 2nd ruckman than Mason who could at least be used down back for his height and size. Jury is out on Backwell - looked ok in a couple of games but has missed the last 3 with a hammy. We were unlucky with Fenton who would be in our best 21 and would add bulk to the midfield.

However the rest are / were rubbish but I suppose you can't comment until you see them? Having said that we may not see Paley due to his injuries - can't believe we recruited him and then allowed him to have a major operation???

So yes I do rate Miles and Hill.

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no-one has asked this yet BUT............how did The Recruit of The Century play?

[dedja]

U[10].Player?

[CENTURION]

U[10].Player?

you know, the bald bloke.

[Mic]

no-one has asked this yet BUT............how did The Recruit of The Century play?

Craig Burrows retired many years ago.

[dedja]

U[10].Player?

you know, the bald bloke.

With his name on him?

[CENTURION]

U[10].Player?

you know, the bald bloke.

With his name on him?

dunno, what is that?

[JK]

no-one has asked this yet BUT............how did The Recruit of The Century play?

Ordinary mate .. In fact since someone nommed him for the Magarey he's been hopelessly out of touch

[HeartBeatsTrue]

U[10].Player?

Yeah what's the deal with that in the champion stats?

[Brodlach]

no-one has asked this yet BUT............how did The Recruit of The Century play?

Probably played better than his counterpart that didnt come home either

[Squawk]

Unless I missed it North did not have 1 currently AFL listed player in their league ranks yesterday .... thats a rarity in today's SANFL

IIRC Norwood had 0 AFL players in it's losing Grand Final team last year. Rodan and Thomas (Power) were ineligible, Young (Crows) was injured and Walker was stuck 1 game short of qualification after he was poised to be dropped and qualify. (Nathan Bock declared his love for the GC Suns, Neil Craig dropped him and Walker never got the extra game needed to qualify for SANFL finals. Might have been interesting if he had played the GF!).

To be fair, I don't recall that Centrals were inundated with AFL players either - perhaps a Dogs fan could confirm this.

[am Bays]

Unless I missed it North did not have 1 currently AFL listed player in their league ranks yesterday .... thats a rarity in today's SANFL

IIRC Norwood had 0 AFL players in it's losing Grand Final team last year. Rodan and Thomas (Power) were ineligible, Young (Crows) was injured and Walker was stuck 1 game short of qualification after he was poised to be dropped and qualify. (Nathan Bock declared his love for the GC Suns, Neil Craig dropped him and Walker never got the extra game needed to qualify for SANFL finals. Might have been interesting if he had played the GF!).

To be fair, I don't recall that Centrals were inundated with AFL players either - perhaps a Dogs fan could confirm this.

Bays had none in 2008

[sjt]

Unless I missed it North did not have 1 currently AFL listed player in their league ranks yesterday .... thats a rarity in today's SANFL

IIRC Norwood had 0 AFL players in it's losing Grand Final team last year. Rodan and Thomas (Power) were ineligible, Young (Crows) was injured and Walker was stuck 1 game short of qualification after he was poised to be dropped and qualify. (Nathan Bock declared his love for the GC Suns, Neil Craig dropped him and Walker never got the extra game needed to qualify for SANFL finals. Might have been interesting if he had played the GF!).

To be fair, I don't recall that Centrals were inundated with AFL players either - perhaps a Dogs fan could confirm this.

We had Gunston, can't think of any others. I think Symes qualified but wasn't allowed to play (could easily be wrong).

[Booney]

Francou might not have been at the Port game, but I do think his work in the media can't be ideal. It was bad enough with Jarman, who always had that larrikin/clown image he portrayed when he was offering expert opinion (and the fact North were fairly competitive under him) but Francou is straight faced trying to tell everyone what Port and the Crows need to do in order to be succesful. I noticed the other week he did the old Jarman trick of talk up the AFL listed player who tore his side apart. If the heirarchy at North aren't wishing they'd not gone down that track again perhaps they should.

Well he is only a part time coach despite being on good $$$ so unless it directly affects his coaching / commitment to North then he is entitled to seek extra $$$ through media work. His media work is not the reason why North are bottom - his and Greg Edwards selection of recruits and not addressing some depth at Prospect are the problems and the Board needs to take them to task over this ASAP.

So, not so happy to have Edwards back then?

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So, who will be the first North poster to bag Francou? 1 and 6 ain't lookin' good....oh! hang on! he's a North prodigy, unlike Healy.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Gotta ask the admin of this site.
Is there a prize at the end of the year for most posts or something? Seems like some just write post after post of meaningless bullshit every minute of the day on every thread.

[on the rails]

So, who will be the first North poster to bag Francou? 1 and 6 ain't lookin' good....oh! hang on! he's a North prodigy, unlike Healy.

Well I have been "critical" of him in a couple of areas on a number of threads:

(1) Refusal to play a genuine back up ruckman - he recruits 6 ft 6 inch tall David Hill, plays him in the first game, drops him, brings him back then drops him and states he is not versatile enough. In a side that has had it's depth tested by lack of talls - he plays Mason as 2nd ruck yet he would be better placed in defense to give us some size?

(2) The poor recruiting - which both the coach and the Football Manager, Greg Edwards have to take the bulk of the blame for. Only Todd Miles can be considered a successful recruit. I was told that because of the $1.7 million the club is spending at Prospect - expenditure was tightened howeve rsince can confirm we are paying up to the max in the cap so lack of $$$ is not the issue and nor should it be given North's income!

At least his game plan is more positive than Healy's ever was but our start 1-6 comes down to experience and finishing and in reality apart from the South game (and maybe last Saturday) we could have just as easily won 4 other games but alas we didn't so no point dwelling on it.

We will judge Francou at season's end and as to how he gets us off the bottom moving forward and hopefully $$$ are thrown at getting decent recruits in terms of size, strength and experience across the board, not the dud's that most of the 2011 recycled recruits have turned out to be!

[CENTURION]

Gotta ask the admin of this site.
Is there a prize at the end of the year for most posts or something? Seems like some just write post after post of meaningless bullshit every minute of the day on every thread.

No, unfortunately there's not.

[HeartBeatsTrue]

Gotta ask the admin of this site.
Is there a prize at the end of the year for most posts or something? Seems like some just write post after post of meaningless bullshit every minute of the day on every thread.

No, unfortunately there's not.

Unfortunately there's also no prizes for most hits on the Redlegs forum.