Sandow

IMO, for Sandow to be more than entertainment and actual help us win a premiership he needs to

1. Learn how to gamble. Life and footy is playing the odds and just telling him to avoid the pokies is not helpful. Sandow needs to learn when to hold and when to fold. For example not trying a high risk play in your own half. Its not just playing it safe all the time. Sometimes you know you can do something even though mostly it would be a bad idea. But you don't try a chip kick in your own half cause you decided you want to go out and win it for the boys impatiently. You only do it if you just know you can, not because you need to.

2. Learn how to convert in the opposition's 20. What use is doing brilliant 40/20s when you can't convert on the opportunity. Sandow's attacking kicking and decision making in the opposition's 20 has been very poor.

I love Sandow's attitude and I thought he used to be a real winner and good under pressure. But I think it will be hard for him to learn those two points and unless he can he cannot help us win a premiership and we need someone else at half.

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- Trini Lopez calling Go Go Gomez March 21, 2015 at 8:27am
  
  I started wondering whether Cherry-Evans had backed the Dogs last night.
Rodney Wilson March 20, 2015 at 10:01pm

Sandow has just learnt not to gamble !!!
RIDER March 21, 2015 at 8:49am

Aren't these things that every FG half of his age and experience should already know?

If we're going to have to teach him, we may as well put our efforts into a younger half.

And Tad, if you are offering me DCE to partner Foran over Sandow, I'll take DCE.
- Ham Sammich > RIDER March 21, 2015 at 8:56am
  
  Yep. DCE isn't playing behind a good pack and still playing well. Put Evans behind the dogs pack and the other team have absolutely no chance in the game.
shane March 21, 2015 at 10:00am

Yes I agree with Ham, DCE played well behind a ordinary pack and was involve the whole 80 where if our pack was ordinary Sandow usually goes missing or does stupid things.
Tim Par March 21, 2015 at 10:02am

I disagree a bit. Sandra creates something rare that only a few people in the game can create. And that is the magical self belief he instills in the team when those plays come off. We were being bulldozed by the dogs at the point of that chip kick and I truly believe if he converted that play we would of gone on to win because it just has the magic of lifting the team around him. I disagree about him just kicking and hoping... I reckon he saw it but had to hit a coin to get it right and was off.
- Wile E. Coyote > Tim Par March 21, 2015 at 10:51am
  
  It was the wrong time to try
  It is about risk management and low probability plays should not be done at high risk positions - unless everything was aligned to make it a high probability which it wasn't . Instead of teaching Sandow not to gamble they should teach him risk management or how to play poker
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- Wile E. Coyote March 21, 2015 at 2:04pm
  
  I agree, but Sandow needs to pick the right time and he often does know his limitations. Sometimes he will just know he can do something and he should go with it. But this was him doing it because he wanted to and not because he instinctively knew it was the right time. Mostly we need to play the percentages and get in the oppositions 20 and then know how to convert.