One of my biggest concerns no matter who the coach is, is when they cannot arrest the slide.
We are less than 3/4 through the season, are playing horribly and week to week look like we are getting worse.
There is just no positivity whatsoever. The injury excuse has faded given we just about have everyone back on deck. No other team has less than 2 injuries to their starting 17.
No team should be writing off a season this early in the season and not be criticised.
We cannot just see out the season with a heap of losses and think we are on the improve. That's a cop-out
I want a team and coach that can devise a gameplan with the available players in our squad that can turn things around. I do this every week coaching junior AFL against much better sides to ours on paper.
It's called team engineering. And we have none of it. Too many dumb players in our team and obviously a coach that cannot understand the limits of his players - both physically or mentally
Marki, it is hard to argue with your points and I agree that we need to "create" that positivity, but I fear that too many of our players are just plain tired and knocked about by bigger & better sides......that is where your concept of "team engineering" makes a lot of sense......but unfortunately who is going to implement it....CC has already demonstrated that he has no tactics, he cannot motivate the players (should they really need to be motivated by someone else?). Gus is a little past it imo and I think that it is time that a harsh team meeting is called. I feel for guys like Preston and to a certain extent King (although he has gone backwards this year)
I don't doubt that guys like Mahoney and Preston are making the effort, but perhaps the captaincy id playing on Reed. Some plain simple down to earth truth telling is needed......our backs defence is very ordinary so not just the piggies (our defence wide on Sunday was horrendous...yet CC's strength at the Panthers was his defence). Don't be fooled....I am as disappointed as the rest of you, but I will never give up on the club, even though the last 5 years or so has been the worst period I can remember in nearly 60 years of watching & supporting the club.
