club29 wrote:
The players have seen off countless coaches (assistants included). Our problem isnt the coaches it is the list managers. We don't have enough talent spread across the team.
Even our good players lack the ability to be super fit, elite runners, skilled in kicking, skilled in decision making, follow a plan, gain confidence, stay confident and have the want to win.
We bring in the wrong players.
The coaches do get caught up coaching around these deficiencies in the list. Playing the hand they are dealt. But I wouldn't be changing coaches without doing a massive list redesign.
Yeah, the way we start great then slowly (then rapidly) fall apart under every coach is a tell-tale sign - tickets for the Teague Train, anyone? - I can't think of another club that does it with as much gusto as our boys, and it tells me that the problem is one of leadership and standards within the playing group. I reckon our boys try, and are professional enough, but also that they subconsciously think it's enough to be those things, that they are content to be part of some nebulous "process", that after the novelty of change has worn off they don't have the drive to push on. I don't see any anger, any determination that winning games is the be all and end all, and this feeling is borne out by the way we suck new arrivals down to our level... Saad, an excitement machine, now increasingly vanilla... Hewett, from a great club culture, looked mint for half a season, now blunt and anonymous... Acres, a few games where he seemed to have a wing nailed down, now a calamity... and we call for the likes of LOB,JSOS, TDK and Dow to be recycled yet again, and maybe they tinker at the edges a bit but none of them are winners, none of them can invigorate an apathetic group. This is why I'd be open to trading anyone and everyone on the list, and be actively looking to shift anyone who's been here 5+ years, it's not because they're all rubbish, it's because they're too accustomed to a "close enough is good enough" "we're on a journey" "results don't matter" "trust the process" cliche factory.