My biggest beef with Pagan is quite simple...........it's always the same.
HE is clearly not the most creative coach in the world, but geez, you'd think that you'd make some kind of changes and try new things after beeing thrased week after week after week.
I made a promise at the start of this year that i
would not judge Pagan on one 10+goal loss...................i would judge him on how he went about it the next week to rectify the situation.
Couple of things we do consistantly that haven't worked for 3-4 years:-
- Constantly playing wide.
Do we have something against the centre corrider of the bloody ground or somthing? Why do we always want to play along the wing........Not only is it stupid but it's COMPLETLY BLOODY OBVIOUS! Opposition teams go into the game knowing where gonna do it BEFORE WE'VE EVEN DONE IT!
-Still MUCH too negative.
The fast & flowing games against port and the bulldogs just hid this a bit but i still say Pagan is too negative to coach this team.
Look at Kouta yesterday.............he had racked up 13 possesions in the first half playing in the midfield. After half-time, he gets shiffted to defense? Why?
Gibbs in back pocket? - need i say more (and yeah, i get the whole 'development thing, but i'll argue that Gibbs learnt more playing in the centre in yesterdays game than he has probably earnt all bloody year!)
Etc, etc, etc.
-Rewards mediocrity, denys keen youth!
Ackland & Lappin........................two players who should be playing out the rest of the season in the bullants, yet they consistantly get rewarded for pathetic performances.
Grigg, Bower, Ando, Blackwell, & others.............trying to break into the side only to sit on the pine for 3/4s of the game once they finally do!
- Failure to prepare, Prepare to Fail!!!!!!
Aiskaie!!!!! - SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROMOTED THE SECOND CLOKE WENT DOWN.
Look at this for a scenario would you:
You have 3 ruckmen on your senior list. Your #1, the best of the 3, has just gone down with a season ending injury. Your #2 is trying to find some form and your #3 is still 4-6 weeks away with another injuury. You have the choice to promote a rookie has already been listed in the top 5 for the reserves 3 times this season.......................what do you do?
NOTHING????????????????????????????????????????????
Jesus H Christ! I cannot get over this one. We'd rather play our future (hopefully) CHF/FF who's never played in the ruck before than promote a guy who's been busting his guts and putting in 110% week after week after week!
- Clearly no game plan!
This is now clear to me after seeing so many kids grab the ball and then stop and end up in a 'rabbit in the headlights' scenario!
Most of the time, the players up ahead have got their backs to the player who has the god-damn ball.
Ditto when we go inside 50. I FOR ONE FEEL SORRY FOR FEV cause most of the time he gets spoilt by his own player!
Sure, did Jonathon Brown did have good delivery yesterday, but delivery is only the half of it! HE HAD SPACE IN WHICH TO LEAD INTO Which was CLEARLY part of the Lions game plan!
With us? It's just 'GET IT INSIDE 50 AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE! - You might think that's crap, but PAGAN HAS ACTUALLY STATED THIS HIMSELF!!!!!!!
SAME STORY DOWN BACK! Clearly we could have thrown a spare man in defense yesterday to plug up where Brown was leading to (and i actually saw Gibbs do it just because it came naturaly to him, instinct like) but we did nothing. I said to my dad at half time, if we don't put a spare man down back Brown will kick 10 on us and i think Lynch said it on the commentary also! Jesus...............if we can see it SURELY Pagan can? Couldn't he?
-ALWAYS stubborn enough to blame our youth!
Cause no-way could it be our style of play or our lack of imagination could it Pagan? It's always 'we're a young team, we'll learn from that!'
THE LIONS ARE A YOUNG TEAM TOO MATE~ so there goes that theory.
Ditto Collingwood, and they're playing finals football!
BULLSHIT!
Excuses, excuses, excuses. That's all i've heard from Denis for 3 years. Nothing has changed.
Somebody sumed it up perfectly here a few weeks back!
At the end of last year we had:-
NO RUCK
NO CHF
NO CHB
& more importantly, NO GAME PLAN!
Halfway through this year, NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
We've only managed to add to that list cause we obviously have NO-FREAKING-IDEA!
I ask anybody who thinks Pagan is the right coach for us to tell me why! I ENCOURAGE IT! Hell i bloody dare it...................somebody please tell me something?