beenreal wrote:kickinit wrote:Jim05 wrote:pafc1870 wrote:
The "one team doesn't care about winning" thing is complete bullshit.
Dont agree
As a member of Essendon for 30+ years and going to numerous reserves game I can tell you the club does not give a crap about the reserves winning. The supporters might but the club doesnt. The senior coach tells the reserves coach what position and what ammount of game time each player plays, winning is purely secondary. The ammount of Bendigo/Essendon games ive been too where players are played out of position or only play 10-15 minutes is unbelievable.
but because that's the way essendon is does it automatically mean the crows and port will be the same.
Listened to the Geelong CEO on 3AW a couple of weeks ago talking about not only how pleased they were to be 5-0 but also how proud they were as a club because their Reserves were also sitting top of the ladder at 5-0 too.
Certainly sounded like they care.
For the record, I disagree with the sign but I have a genuine problem with the inability to display it at SANFL venues.
Geelong may care but that does not mean the PAFC would care.
They already are showing disregard to the SANFL by moving players willy nilly, moving players under the guest rule then deciding to take them on joy flights to Melbourne and demanding that players play certain positions.
I would be far more trusting of the AFC in this instance of the reserves winning as a main objective. However, only slightly more.