Right mix of Industrialists and entrepreneurs

[Newbie]

I believe, to be success in football (or anything that is matter), we will need a right mix of industrialism and entrepreneurism(sp?). To me, Kirk is an industrial player and quite a good one at that. Ditto Mathews. Schneider is an entreprise player and exciting one at that. Goodes is an entreprise player who is also quite industrial. J.Bolton lacks the entreprise edge to be a top class midfielder. Young Mc Veigh seems to have excellent entreprise potential with some work ethnics developping the industrial side of his game, he could be a top class midfielder. For Saddo? I dont really know where to fit him. An entreprise defender, perhaps

Clearly in the last few years, we have seen a significant transformation of our side, from a side with excessing number of industrialists to a side with a much better mix of industrialists and entrepreneurs. But still to me, I dont know if we have found the elusive right mix yet. So I wonder what would be the right mix for us to be success? Any opinion out there?

[dimelb]

Re: Right mix of Industrialists and entrepreneurs

Originally posted by Newbie
work ethnics

Unskilled migrant labour? Amanda Vanstone won't let you

[liz]

Interesting idea, but why does a player have to be one or the other? The ideal AFL player would be capable of both - and indeed the premier midfielders in the competition (Crawford, Black, Voss) are certainly both. They work tirelessly for the whole game and most of their possessions are "plain vanilla" but they are still capable of being very clever and creative.

Even if you accept that the elite players are a bit different (and maybe the ability to be both industrialists and entrepreneurs is what makes them elite), players further down the pecking order also show both. For example, I agree that under your definitions Kirk is essentially an industrialist but he is also one of the more creative handballers in the Swans team. And Cressa is probably a player who started predominantly as an industrialist but certainly developed entrepreneurial tendancies as he got older.

As with most of these types of descriptor, it is probably less a case of either/or, and more of a continuum - some players are close to one end and some to the other end but they all have (and at AFL level need to have) a bit of both.

[Charlie]

Meh. Forget all the capitalists... they are the old way to play football.

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