Alien.nation

[trewhella]

All players go through form slumps.
Even the greatest.

One year you are leading try scorer, everything glides, nothing in a game is forced, the machine runs smoothly.

The next year for whatever reason you start to doubt your own ability.....and..you start to lose confidence.

Maybe it was the continual spray from a coach that thought you were capable of more in a losing side.
Maybe he just didnt understand you who you were as person.
Maybe you overheard your team mates talking about you at training.
Maybe you read an internet blog that was calling for your head.
Maybe you broke up with a girlfriend.
Maybe you have lost your love of the game.
Maybe your mum is sick.
Maybe you have a gambling or other secret addiction that nobody knows about.



Whatever the reason(s), that performance by Sean Kenny Dowell was one of the most painful performances I have witnessed in a game.
I could see that he was trying.
However, nothing was working. What was once easy has become agonisingly difficult.
What once glided, becomes rigid.
What once required little or no thought, now weighs heavily on the mind.



I feel for the bloke.
He is going that badly that I cannot simply call for his head.
That would be far too easy.

If he is to stay a rooster he needs help beyond the coach and trainer.
He needs somebody who can reach him and show him what he was doing when the roosters made the gf a couple of seasons ago.
Players dont simply lose ability, more often than not they fall out of love with the game.

I hope the rekindling of a lost flame does not happen at another club but I suspect it may just happen that way.

[The Brain]

He shouldve been looked after several games ago and put into Newtown than letting every one suffer including him self .Its would be the only logical. thing to do .Shouldve happend 5 games ago.

He is Steve Mavin 10 games in a row.

[stsae]

Agree with all that, even I can't at him anymore, it's embarrassing for the poor carnt.

Let me ask, isn't that one of the functions of reserve grade, to let badly out of form players get back their jizz out of the cameras and pressure of 1st grade???

Surely he's been given enough rope and its time for him to play at Henson???

For the good of the team and for the good of the player.

[stephenj]

skid is too nice a bloke to treat flippantly and badly, hes a part of our club so we owe him some assistance witrh dignity and respect! being dropped for a while might do it? speaking to a sports psychologist might do it, spending some time with his dad might do it, we just dont know and need to be guided by skid, robbo is an excellent man manager sio im sure hes got a viable plan of attack mapped out for skid the last option is to release him and pay for him at another club to rip us a new one!

[Arties Pie]

Jesus he's payed to play and play well, who gives a shit whats wrong with him thats his problem, he needs to be dropped and dropped now to Newtown. I wish I could rock up to work and screw up like he does.

[Vasco]

I just don't think he is first grade standard.

Can't draw and pass.

Doesn't tackle around the legs.

Couldn't read his own name in defence.

These are fundamental skills in my eyes.

[top_joe]

I just don't think he is first grade standard.

Can't draw and pass.

Doesn't tackle around the legs.

Couldn't read his own name in defence.

These are fundamental skills in my eyes.

^^^ this. Razzle Dazzle comes after getting all the fundamentals right, not in lieu of.

[kakaruk]

Newtown may help Dowell . He needs to learn the basic skills of the game. Things you learn as a kid playing junior footie. Like how to tackle side on, front on, ball and all .How to carry the football. Kenny Dowell does not display these basic skills in his game yet he is an international .I'm at a loss to try to understand what's going on with him. He must be on his last chance with robbo a woeful defender like him just doesn't fit with robbos coaching style

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Newtown may help Dowell . He needs to learn the basic skills of the game. Things you learn as a kid playing junior footie. Like how to tackle side on, front on, ball and all .How to carry the football. Kenny Dowell does not display these basic skills in his game yet he is an international .I'm at a loss to try to understand what's going on with him. He must be on his last chance with robbo a woeful defender like him just doesn't fit with robbos coaching style

Maybe he is just the right body shape...

[chook 56]

Maybe he is just the right body shape...

Personally, I'm a hips & butt guy.

Meh, each to their own.

[Guest]

Who do they replace him with if they drop him this week?

[stsae]

Who do they replace him with if they drop him this week?

Shawn Kinney Smart.

[chook 56]

Shawn Kinney Smart.

No such animal exists

[Guest]

He can't hold onto the ball. That is the most basic, simple and fundamental aspect of the game he cannot grasp, pun intended. Even under no pressure, in the clear, not an opposing player within light years and he'll drop the ball. What he needs is a brain upgrade, maybe an Orangutan, he is unable to learn or fix his problems, that's not lack of confidence, that's plain stupidity.

Blake Ferguson is another case in point.

Chook.

[Johnny.]

Who do they replace him with if they drop him this week?