Campo is the best defender at our club :crazy: If you think he's had one good game, I suggest you watch the game vs the Titans a few weeks back. Credit where its due, he is a good player who has the midas touch ATM.
Good luck in the coming weeks!
KW
I gave him credit, stated he has had a very good season...perhaps you should re-read the post.
However, prior to this season, every Canberra supporter wanted him gone...he had played for 3-4 seasons and noone cared or wanted him in grade...now all of a sudden he is a messiah.
He's in great form at the moment...most definately...but earlier in the year everyone at Canberra was calling for him to be dropped and a Carney/Dobson combination....how quickly peoples heads turn when a team starts winning.
Even here...but MOSTLY on PI...and I say mostly because I think only one person on here had a dig...and noone that has posted here in this thread...said how great it was for the kids to play...and how enthusiastic we looked etc etc...then yesterday I read dribble from the same person saying "all these kids are crap...all out of their depth...I never supported them coming into first grade,...what did people expect".
If you are going to play these kids, you have to take the good with the bad...the reason we lost yesterday was a lack of committment from the team as a whole...a lack of discipline from the senior players...and this comes down to two sets of people:
1) The leaders at the club
2) The coach for not properly motivating his players.
Coaching isn't just developing skill...thats what an assistant coach is for...coaching is all about man management and that unforunately is something that Matthew Elliot is extremely poor at. If he can't mentally get players up for a game like that...where our season is on the line...then that says a number of things to any supporter:
1) The Players do not respect him or his staff
2) The players just in general do not care about their own performance
3) The players do not care about their team, their colours or their fans
4) The coach himself has given up.
It is time that we stop delluding ourselves. This team will NOT move forward until we have a coach that:
A) Can reach out to the Islander players and get them ready physically and mentally for a game
B) Can develop the talent we have from good players, to great players...not just average players to good players.
C) Can outthink and out-coach other coaches and create gameplans around our strengths and target their weaknesses.
Until that happens, we will always be underachievers, and I don't care what anyone says...we have underachieved this year massively.
