Choccies wrote:The Riddler wrote:LM apologies if this has been mentioned before but has Oldie and Smithfield parted company or is his job being advertised as part of the constitution?
Or is he going to apply for the vacant Golden Grove job like I believe he did a couple of years ago ??
I have no idea what his intentions are, I have given him my 100% support in whatever he decides to do, he made some gutsy moves that paid off early in his stint with us. In his first year we lost our first 6, we ended up winning 11 of the next 12 to make it into the finals. One particular game we were playing Para Hills at the Paddocks, they were sitting top, both of our ruckmen failed to train that week and were both dropped to the B's, we played without a ruckman and won.
It unified the playing group and earnt him a great deal of respect.
He was let down this season by a few players who put themselves before the team and after copping a fair swag of injuries early in the season we struggled for depth. He showed a lot faith in some real young fella's and it paid off at times during the season, we've now had more than 15 players still under the age of 18 play at least a dozen A grade games over the past two seasons, there's no price on experience.