Blue Vain wrote:
Braithy wrote:
yday was about effort and application more than about lack of leg speed - and that to a degree was self inflcted. the team had no effort, no talk, and coaching hadn't readied, let alone primed them for any.
so much of yday was coaching and team selections.
young and doc in? sure, lets go slower, that should work out nicely. coaching gets what it deserves, imo.
C'mon Braithy. So the coach hadn't readied the players, let alone primed them? We've been in front at half time in the previous 7 matches. Does that mean he had primed them too much?
The selections were OK IMO. Young had to come in as insurance as a tall defender and Docherty was BOG in the VFL last week.
I'm the last one to defend Docherty (I was calling for him to hang them up last year) but you can't pick kids for the sake of it. Lucas was the only other real option and he is off the boil a bit at the moment. First pre-season, lots of game time. It's understandable he's feeling the pinch and his performances in the VFL are looking like it.
I'm much happier that they're putting the welfare of the kid ahead of everything else.
The only criticism I've got of selection was Lord on the wing. He's shown previously he's not up to the role. I would have preferred Walsh got out there and give us some outside run. The players weren't up to it on the night. Dropping off too much defensively. Giving away too many uncontested marks early and our mids who have been good were dominated.
Everything for us was starting in the back half because we couldn't win a centre clearance.
It put pressure on our back half and when we got it forward, the opposition were camped there because we had to transition off half back.
No 6,6,6 entries.
I don't blame the forwards or defenders. This is 100% on the mids IMHO. As for the coach priming them. They're all professional athletes. If they need to coach to fire them up, they may as well retire now. Intensity was down, pressure was poor and the players fell back into old habits. Self preservation. Kick down the line instead of taking a risk. That's not coaching. That's scars from years past re-surfacing.
i hink you're way off, bv. i blame coaching. the elite teams like the cats are up and about every week. they're ready, well coached, well drilled and come out and compete. even when they lose, you don't and can't question their effort. execution, maybe, but never effort.
one week we come out breathing fire, body on the line. the next listless af and can't be bothered. there was no talk in the back 6, the players looked lost - when to go, when seal off space, when to guard their man. lloyd showed some damning vision, of which weitering was the worst offender
for me ... all that is coaching.
players are professional yes. when one or two aren't on their game - that's players. when the collective unit as a whole aren't on their game, look lost and play lazy - that's 100% coaching.
and don't even get me started on docherty. he's gone. you can't pick kids for the sake of it? buddy, you can't pick an old guy who's lost all ability to run, compete, put his body on the line at afl level. we played a man down every time we've selected him.
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