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Message: [QUOTE="theshed, post: 3231470, member: 2290"] You’ve got a promising young half who is raw and needs to develop. Despite pressure to play him in first grade, you select the older guys and send him to Q cup to work on his game. You tell the media how you can unlock Milford’s abilities during the off-season and that he just needs to bla bla bla. You’re halves play 50 minutes of decent footy then fall away when it matters. You stick by them and pick them again and they absolutely fail to enact your game plan. Meanwhile, your young player in Q cup plays pretty good and shows that the Q cup thing is beneficial to his growth as a player. Youre options as coach are as follows: A) stick by your halves and remember that they worked for the first 50 minutes of the season - try to discover why it worked then and not in the second match. Leave your young guy in Q cup to continue to develop for a meaningful length of time, and then once he has shown improvement and is ready, bring him back into the main squad. B) drop the underperforming half of your choice to Q cup (or the bench) to send a message and bring the kid to first grade, and hope that effort was simply the issue and not the game plan or other factors - and that whatever the kid brings to the team fixes whatever the original issue was. I’d chose option A personally because you sent Dearden to Q cup for a reason; and. now after only 2 games (1 q cup game) to bring him back into the team shows a lack of confidence in your original idea, is reactionary instead of long term thinking, and doesn’t even serve the original purpose of letting Dearden develop - now all you’ve done is told him he isn’t good enough for first grade yet; only to bring him back 1 week later. All that says to Dearden is “I don’t have faith in you to be NRL ready yet, but the other guys are real shit and I’m out of ideas”. Even worse than that, now you are making him learn a different position in hooker. How is that improving his game as a half? You play him off the bench in some hooker / half utility. What is the benefit to his development? It’s all the joy of being told he isn’t good enough to start in the NRL team but with the added bonus of less minutes, being expected to play an unfamiliar position, and having any opportunity to learn how to game manage better taken out of the equation. It’s literally the worst possible option out of all conceivable Dearden options. [/QUOTE]

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