Skd - the final chapter

[TheLoneRooster]

By seasons end you will be begging for his contract to be extended!

I'm curious, on what do you base this and the other assertion ...

SKD will make you all eat your words of condemnation.Chook.

... Chook? Surely it isn't his consistency.

I hope you're right but history tells me otherwise.

[Guest]

I'm curious, on what do you base this and the other assertion ...



... Chook? Surely it isn't his consistency.

I hope you're right but history tells me otherwise.

I'm basing it on the fact that he's still a big raw talent (22 yrl old) that has had minimal real coaching in his current position. He's moved from the wing to the centres where his positional play comes under more scrutiny, especially in defence where I'll admit he has been found wanting.

But I'm prepared to give him all this year to come good. Let Smith have the year with him and if he's still playing like Trew posts, then I'll be first to step up and be bagged. The kid has heart, size and desire, the rest can be learned. SKD just needs to empty his cup.

Chook.

[Vasco]

I'm basing it on the fact that he's still a big raw talent (22 yrl old) that has had minimal real coaching in his current position. He's moved from the wing to the centres where his positional play comes under more scrutiny, especially in defence where I'll admit he has been found wanting.

But I'm prepared to give him all this year to come good. Let Smith have the year with him and if he's still playing like Trew posts, then I'll be first to step up and be bagged. The kid has heart, size and desire, the rest can be learned. SKD just needs to empty his cup.

Chook.

First graders shouldn't need to be put aside and taught how to draw and pass.

That is for under 10s coaching.

[Guest]

First graders shouldn't need to be put aside and taught how to draw and pass.

That is for under 10s coaching.

Yeah right, along with completion rates, field position and tackle counts, the draw and pass is high on the list of things coaches teach their under 10 teams.

Chook.

[Vasco]

Yeah right, along with completion rates, field position and tackle counts, the draw and pass is high on the list of things coaches teach their under 10 teams.

Chook.

Mate it's a fundamental skill of the game. Along with catching, passing and tackling.

I was an ordinary park footy player and it was expected to know how to draw and pass in the under 12s/13s, especially if you played in the backs.

This bloke is in his 4th season of first grade yet he still can't do it.

Not sure why you are defending him mate. Shannon Hegarty was the same. Could make a break but stuff it up when the basics let him down.

[Guest]

Mate it's a fundamental skill of the game. Along with catching, passing and tackling.

I was an ordinary park footy player and it was expected to know how to draw and pass in the under 12s/13s, especially if you played in the backs.

This bloke is in his 4th season of first grade yet he still can't do it.

Not sure why you are defending him mate. Shannon Hegarty was the same. Could make a break but stuff it up when the basics let him down.

isnt this though ultimately supportive of the point those of us who see potential in SKD are making?? Put it this way, you have all acknowledged that the bloke has a freakish ability to break tackles and cross the stripe however what is letting him down is the 'basics' that 'u13s could do'. One would think then that if these deficiencies are simply basics in the game then maybe no one has ever bothered to really sit down with him and help him improve his game. as a kid he would have been one of the biggest and an absolute gun in attack so no underage coach probably didnt bother to teach him how to do these 'basics', he came to our club as a 'backpacker' and we havent had a decent coach/he has been played out of position since turning up.

That all suggests to me that there is hope for him. If all of you concede that these are the real easy bits of our game that he is getting wrong then with a bit of time, focus and effort they shouldnt be too challenging to fix. Dumb errors and defensive reads will improve with time and confidence - remember toops - slowly but surely he sort of understood when to and not to pop the ball. SKDs errors and missed tackles are already way down on years gone by.

If he cant do what average park footballers can then there is probably a reason why he is right up there in the nrl for tackle busts, tries and line breaks over the course of his career. Thats why the park footballers are park footballers - they havent got that edge which he does. THats why imo he is worth persisting with