robertbb wrote:
The team with the best players wins. Most would agree, the top three teams at the moment are Hawthorn, Sydney and Port Adelaide. They all play a different game style, which is a function both of the players on the list (i.e. their strengths and weaknesses) and of the coaches preferences (which presumably take into consideration game-day match-ups and the game style of the top teams).
I still don't see why Malthouses game plan is any worse (or better) than any other. It's just tactically different. And it has *clearly* evolved since 2012.
Let's face it, the crux of the problem is that he inherited a SHIT list and was forced by Kernahan and Swann to tell the world it was OK and that we were close to a flag. When Malthouse accepted the position, I suspect he had no clue how shitful things really were. I also suspect he clued in pretty quickly after walking into PP.
Our trading/recruiting has been better in the last two seasons than in the past 10 years. We've chopped a metric shit-ton of dead wood from our list: Garlett, Robinson, McLean, Duigan, Bootsma, Hampson, Lucas... OMFG what a who's who of under-performing flogs. We've replaced them with the likes of Docherty, Everitt, Thomas, KJ, Jones, Whiley... players that we know can play. We've drafted Boekhurst, Smith... who to my mind have already shown a bit. Give the man a chance to mould this bunch into a winning unit. I believe it can be done, and I believe Malthouse needs to be given a chance to continue what he started.
We're going to turn heads this year. The first quarter against Collingwood was a glimpse of things to come. We're going to play relentless, burst football for a period of time in each quarter.... hit the scoreboard.... then collapse back and defend, and score heavily on the rebound as well. Watch this space.
Its just an opinion, but I think youre spot on...it is a wait and see game at this stage.
Its MM's last year of the current contract, so lets see if he's set the club up for a better season with the adjustments he's made in the last 2 years. From what I have been told from people who know players and what Ive heard in the media the players definetely love MM and believe in him. There is a sense of belief amongst the club, so all the positivety and negativity today means @#$%&! all, and we should all wait till the half way mark before we start judging MM, and even then there's still another 11 games of footy to play out. 22 rounds is a lot of footy.
Its a different list today to that in 2012, and other teams have progressed far better than us since then, which has nothing to do with MM and Ratten.
We can only guess if 2012 was our ceiling, but who knows. My money is on a huge improvement on our previous year and hope we surpass our efforts of 2012, because I still have nightmares about that game and the umpires.
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