Voss also mentioned unpopular decisions to be made . Gonna be a very interesting that .

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Happy with Voss as coach however I think we should have played Docherty on ball earlier in the season. It was only when our injury toll mounted the coaching staff was forced to try something different. Also I think blind Freddy can see that Setterfield can't play on the wing - he either plays in the guts or not at all.
A couple of learnings that came a bit too late in the season.

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IIRC, Doc was getting high numbers, as in midfielder numbers, off half back early in the year.

Agree with you about setterfield

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Our wings failed us miserably: LOB, Setterfield, Newnes, Cottrell. Of all those 4 I'd stick with Cottrell, he has good endurance plus raw speed, but he needs to learn more about the craft of a wingman.

Maybe Cerra and Docherty wax a wing....or take one each? LOB and Cotts have engines, but we need more than just engines.

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I hesitantly watched McRae interviewed on 360 last night....not all of it...I couldnt, but I did take note the situational game training drills the Pies conduct every week between their VFL and AFL players to end training. It adds a layer of fun but it also trains them on something a professional team will need one day.

He's a crafty one McRae. No surprise the Pies have won 11 games less than 7 points.

Michael Voss talks about adding layers to the game plan, and I hope he introduces situational game training because after the last 2 games its obvious we don't or, if Voss does, the players must be plain dumb.

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Watch all clubs do that sort of training year and each game is won or lost in the last few minutes frenzy.

It's unsustainable and like everything in footy will be figured out and countered.

We need to come up with our own point of difference.

Yeah . Easy to run with the pack . Be in front of the pack .

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So what is this Pies gameplan? Play crap til you are 4-5 goals down with 15mins left , then throw the gameplan out the window and take every risk in the book and then hope the opposition make a load of mistakes in the last few minutes like Ess*, Melb and Carlton? Seems to work ...although Horse was having none of it. The Cats will probably be too far in front. And Melbourne wont let it happen again.

Bondi love your input here so thankyou. FWIW, I still contend that in addition to what you suggest (and other areas), a focus needs to be centered on fixing the clear mental fragility which has been shown in parts earlier this season, but certainly when we had critical games over the last few weeks, where we just simply had to win and could of despite stupid dumb decisions. What that entails, I think, is getting a psychologist or similar on the payroll, to provide the support they need to improve mentally, especially when the heat is on and/or when you are under pressure situations.

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It looks like you describe.
Full on defense then chaos.

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Like Leading Teams?

We didn't start the season with 4 quarter efforts, and like last game we played 1 great quarter but one.
The good thing, is we did adjust, and a few times we played 3 or 4 quarter games and won: Swans & Freo

WE have to stay focussed for longer, and with a bit of mongrel: to play with hatred.

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Play on at all costs and hope your opponents shit the bed.

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Hardly revolutionary.

No real threat in the key posts, so push them up the ground. Turn the ball over & spread.

Bring Setanta & Jeffy out of retirement?

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Without doubt . Really like that last line Bondi , you are talking my language . Unfortunately i can see only two blokes ( Owies and Honey ) who have any real drop punt about them but there are questions marks about whether they are actually good enough . Sad state of affairs hey .

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No nothing like Leading Teams . In my view, the playing group has issues above the shoulders - their mental state and their ability to as you say "remain focused for longer et al". To me that suggests a professional (not sure exactly what - maybe a psychologist) is required to help out

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This slingshot chaos, turn it over in the opposition F50 and run like hell breaking lines and chipping into the corridor while all your forward run and spread forward of the ball, seems to be the tactic that’s worked for them. That sense of belief they have now that this works gives them supreme confidence and makes opposition sides panic because they know Collingwood are coming at them. Struggled to do it against Sydney cramped on the small SCG and because a Sydney are hardened and never panic. Probably might struggle at Marvel

I don’t think more psychologists are the answer. All teams have a bucketload of well-being and mental health people.

I think situational drills done repetitively so that given scenario A we go to routine B Drill enough and even dumb players don’t have to rely on instinct. That’s why teams like Geelong whose players have played together for so many years have the edge. You can see from our game against them they just work together like clockwork. It was all so automatic.

Let’s just hope Collingwood go out in straight sets. cauliflower

Richmond game plan.

Collingwoods game plan didn't work for pretty well 3 quarters against us and won't work at all against Geelong and Sydney.

get him some help ,especially defense coach