blues8182 wrote:
Synbad wrote:
Ratten is a reactive coach.
He is overly defensive.
He tries to neutralise situations not win them.
Hes the dumbest coach going around.
Imagine bringing in Guus and allowing him a month to understand footy.
He would revolutionise football.
such a basic game... and Ratts cant understand it....

Synbad please get off your Ratten bashing for once and have a look at the game for what it was, there was absolutely nothing he could do with the personnel he had available once the ball was bounced.
We went in short in both defence and forward, once we lost Touhey and Walker that compounded the situation, surely you can see that, please enlighten me with the moves that could have been made that could have stopped Petrie and who we could have used as a genuine forward option, can you also tell me how we could cover the loss of Walker and Joseph prior to half time and still be able to keep our run up, please just give me a reasonable and logical analys of what could be done from the box to rescue the situation,just for something different, rather than pushing your dislikes.
I think as many others have said, Ratts isn't entirely to blame, but is far from blameless, he is one of the factors of why we are where we are.
In my view in order our problems are:
1. Sticks/the board
2. List Management/recruiting
3. Ratts (which ties into number 2 as surely he would have big say)
I know things went wrong with injuries last night, but Ratts even thinking we could replicate our setup of last week with no KP forwards was stupidity of the highest order.
Ratts has played a massive role in our list setup i.e. list management/trading/recruiting