You can forget Finkler, just signed multi year deal with the Nix
Apart from his free kicks, I don't rate Stinkler at all..
if triff doesn't start and we put in another solid performance
that would pretty much put him on the plane home
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/38...at-no9/?cs=306
Interesting comments about fringe players.
So if you are a coach you are going to select the players that show you nothing in training?
Watson started the season in the first XI and his performances have seen him drop out of the team. He benefits from our formation including 2 players in his position. The 3 fringe players in the article have plenty of competition for their position, who are playing well enough to hold their spots, and clearly don't do enough in training.
As long as the sun rises and falls, there will be people on this forum banging the drum for players that have never actually been seen play. Because the myth must surely be better than what trots out for the Jets each week.
It's the coaches job to get all players improving and pushing for a spot
Take Lundy for example kills it in NYL
Then can't get a run in the HAL when we are going shit
To make matters worse they then rub him out of NYL as he is wanted for HAL then don't even play him
Who the **** is to blame for that other than the coaching staff???
Actually I find it refreshing to have a coach speak the truth instead I leading kids on that were poorly recruited from previous staff. I have watched them all over a few years play including Themba who has left with a year still to go on his contract except Brennan which I have watched this year in youth only and shake my head, who picks these players, I thought it was just me. I can see why they are having issues with recruiting and retaining players at youth level.
Not sure if there is any logic here?
So a player kills it in an inferior league/division so he therefore must be automatic selection over a player, playing in a higher grade, whom is competing/playing well in that position?
Lundy was given a chance against Sydney, someone pull up his stats for that game will prob reveal to you the extent of why he has not been I ncluded since..
We should always put out our strongest 11. Hence why Birraz was put back in as soon as medically fit. Lundy, Brennan and co.. Are not in our strongest 11
So if the coaches take him out of football by not playing him in the Yoof or the HAL side and stop him playing at all where is the logic in that??
If he is doing well in the Yoof and getting close to a HAL spot you either pick him in the HAL side or you leave him in the Yoof to keep putting performances in
That is logic
You don't take him out of playing like the coaching department has done
Also if you write a young kid off after one appearance as a sub you ain't showing any logic whatsoever either
I'd rather sit on the A-league bench than play NYL every week. And so would a lot of these kids as well given the the choice.
I would suggest Miller has seen enough of Lundy,Pavacevic and Brennan to decide they aren't up to A-League standard.
Just because most haven't sighted them doesn't mean that Miller hasn't seen enough to make that assessment.
Any of you lads go to watch training?
State League and the NYL competitions are nowhere near the quality on offer in the A-league. Hence form in these lesser rated competitions means SFA at the A-league level.
Brown, Minnecon, Rooney, and Kale [to a lesser extent] completely dominated NYL yet at A-League level they were not able to produce the required form on a weekly basis.
Watson like it or not is way ahead of any of these NYL players - playing over 100 A-league games pretty much makes arguments to the contrary a complete waste of time.