Some are concerned about the direction the clubs heading in … that’s hilarious !
Wake up, the club hasn’t seen finals footy in 7 years.
Gould & Ciraldo can’t just come in and repeat what’s previously been getting done.
A whole new concept in training, defence, attack and where the clubs heading in the future is being introduced, a bunch haven’t bought in, it’s lead to diversion in the team and that’s what’s lead to the leaked points.
Give those that are working their asses off more than one season to fix the deep seeded problems.
Lol here we go again with the Ciraldo apologism.
If Ciraldo is trying to rebuild everything from the ground up, logic would dictate he would have started the rebuild on day one of the pre-season, no? If he started on day one of the pre-season and the issue was players not wanting to work, why would the rot not have been apparent from day one?
What I think happened is, the players started the season with good energy and a few wins. Then we copped some injuries (unfortunate, but a part of the game.) Ciraldo's response was to panic and make unnecessary changes to the team sheet every week on top of the forced ones. It's like he made a wonky bridge out of a plank and some pavers, then kept moving the foundations around to try and stabilise it rather than just taking his time and making a proper footbridge to begin with.
As the season went on, players became more and more confused by what he was trying to do (and that is understandable, because I honestly don't think he knew himself.) He just started making willy-nilly changes to protect himself from criticism, started listening to media criticism and basing his team selections on it, threw some young guys into the deep end well before they were ready and set their development back significantly as they struggled in a struggling unit.
Wouldn't surprise me if Ciraldo started cracking the whip harder the more the criticism piled up as well. These guys are professional athletes. They will buy in as long as they are seeing the gains. They were seeing no gains under Ciraldope, so they slowly but surely lost the faith.
I find it hilarious that people think a guy like RFM, who has worked his butt off to return from numerous career threatening injuries, would sow the seeds of all this dissent because he doesn't want to work. The guy clearly isn't afraid of hard work.
The truth is, players were buying in at the start of the season, and at some point, they lost the faith. That is 100 percent on the coach, la familiar.
