Ockham's Razor wrote:
He was told on Wednesdsy that it was most unlikely he'd be coaching at Carlton in 2016. There was an agreement it wouldn't be made public and he could go out with dignity later in the year.
On Thursday, less than 24 hrs later, his ego took over and he struck out at the club. Called their bluff, hoped they'd blink, and he got it wrong.
Forewarning him isn't good enough. If he's going to stay on for the remainder of the season, there has to be guidelines put in place for the clubs future.
He's still coaching with little regard to the clubs future. Bringing in Warnock to replace Carrazzo was just another example of the same shit he's been serving up.
Until 5 minutes before 3/4 time on Friday, our centre square midfield group consisted of Gibbs, Murphy, Judd, Curnow and Cripps. Thats it! The only addition was Bell who was included to replace the subbed Gibbs.
And then you get people like Maclure bemoaning us giving up goals in red time.
Hello!
Judd went into the game sore and Gibbs was subbed off with injury. Yet there was no respite at selection. Why not bring Graham in to replace Carrazzo? Why not run Tuohy or Docherty or Yarran or Everitt or Buckley or Tutt through there to give them a taste? What about Daisy carrying some of the load?
Compare that to Geelong who ran Selwood, Caddy, Bicavs, Motlop, Lang, Johnson, Stokes, Guthrie as midfielders. Be thankful Duncan and Kelly weren't fit enough to be there.
We are grinding our midfielders into the ground. Development doesn't exist at the moment.
Yup, fair points.
As for comments about Barker, I know he's the village idiot to TC but he's actually the one positive voice within the coaching group.
Him being positive is not mutually exclusive with him being a bad coach. He is responsible for the cohesion of the defensive group and its structure in terms of bringing in midfield support and zoning off to assist, and was responsible for the structure in the forward line and its forward pressure patterns.
They were/are dismal under his tenure. The next coaching structure needs someone responsible for team defence, someone who works with the line coaches to integrate a zone system, but John Barker can get out of the football club because he comes across as a coaching mirage.
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