It's not the 1980's. The head coach is the manager of the coaches and leader of the club but the head coach is rarely the strategic director these days. Ross Lyon has openly stated he gave full responsibility to his assistants to design the game plan and strategic direction of the Saints. Chris Fagan has little involvement at the Lions and a mates son plays at the Pies. He told me MaRae gives full autonomy to his assistants and he manages relationships with the players.

Personally I believe Voss is an excellent leader of the club but his assistants are yet to show their value. Hanson is very highly rated but he hasn't shown me any variation. Hamill has been hamstrung by injury but he has some exceptional talent at his disposal and the players appear to like Clarke but his strategies were worked out by the opposing teams mid last year and he hasn't shown an ability to deviate.
We were great at bursting out the front of stoppages early last year but all clubs are running a defender off the line against us now to prevent that succeeding.

We need a significant change of strategy. Both offensive and defensive. We've fallen back into old habits of recent with our defenders dropping off their opponents and happily taking the back position. We don't need to bite off the corridor all the time like we tried last night but we need to move the ball faster. We're letting the opposition set up too often which takes away the 15-20m kicks that can break up a zone.
Our players need to be re-programmed to understand additional possession doesn't necessarily equate to success. I was frustrated last night watching Docherty calling for the ball to be switched laterally several times when the "best for team" decision was to go forward before the opposition got numbers back.
It's obvious to everyone we're overpossessing the footy, moving it too slowly and lacking the movement to create options when we have the ball. Voss has spoken about it numerous times.
The key is to get some strategic diversity in the coaches box that offers more than we have now. We had some good strategies 12 months ago but we've struggled to come up with anything since it's been countered.

PAR….

we’re taking 3 from the Tee every week at the moment 99…
gets tough to make par from there…!

we actually toe’d one down the middle against the cats..!


kindest regards tommi

To me, performances aren't just the final score Tommi

We were below-par against GWS and probably against NM (especially the "killer instinct" part of a performance)

The Rich game was a toss of the coin and they've been ordinary this year

The Adel, StK and Bris games have been a double-bogie from a performance point of view (not talking about the final result, although that old adage of look after the process and the outcome looks after itself is also true)...and funnily enough, we played on those same 3 golf courses last year and learnt SFA about the layout, the wind, the obstacles, the sand traps, the caddies etc.

That is coaching every day of the week

Happy to have a different view Tommi

They’re ball use is just dreadful

I guess I'm a bit skeptical about the draft-first approach because I've had the "privilege" of watching GWS week-in, week-out on Channel 7 Sydney, and they had all the draft concessions in the world and compiled an awesome list of young talent, but even in those exceptional circumstances could only manage one GF humiliation. And then you look at GCS...