bondiblue wrote:
Voss has made it clear he will focus on the areas Teague didn't focus on or wasn't able to be successful at.
Winning the contest
Support around the contest.
DEFENCE
Underpinned with a "Powerful Brand" of football.
I expect players who had their worst years of AFL will improve with a modern game plan.
Players like Docherty, Williams, Cripps will benefit from this.
Goddard was providing his opinion on the need for Saad to get back to basics with a team defence mentality, and fit into Team Defence mode. This is something all our backline can help with, because there were times when our backline had holes and open leading lanes, and a lack of accountability playing Teague's ultra offensive footy.
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“We saw it with Zac Williams (when he played in defence), Adam Saad and even Doc (Sam Docherty) a lot of the time, they’re all just running trying to get involved offensively, then their ability to make defensive decisions was really, really poor.”
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/10/01/what-decisions-is-he-making-former-teammate-calls-out-saads-playing-style/And rather than trying to do everything, Cripps can concentrate on his strengths as the contested ball and dish it out to support around the contest, which wasn't there last year.
I know Carlton was hampered by injury to Curnow, Pitto, levi, Marchbank, Cuningham etc etc, but Teague's plan looked a bit too kamikaze with players going for broke offensively only for it to backfire when the ball was turned over and we didn't have any defensive set up.
I expect a huge improvement next year. 12-13 wins are not out of the question if Teague was able to muster 8.
Teague's efforts were sadly our 2nd best effort this century, the 42% being better actually than Voss's effort at Brisbane. Did it with a shit load of injuries too. Issue was players choose when they felt like defending or running two ways. The weeks we did defend we defended well, players just picked and chose when to. Teague gave them a mighty half time blast against Hawthorn for not defending properly, which had immediate effect. The idea when you relied on attack is that you trust your players to defend and run two ways, which the players wouldn't do. We defended well against the Pies, twice against Freo, Geelong, 2nd half against Hawthorn, St.Kiida. Other weeks we weren't bothered. Culture has been shitty for 20 years, not necessarily all the on coaches, as we are learning, or at least some of us are. That is the first thing Voss has to get around. Like all our recent coaches he'll likely have his most success year 1. Teague was unlucky his first year was just half a year with 6-5. Missed his first year honeymoon. Year 2 and after is the test as it has started to go pear-shaped previously. Good luck to Vossy if he can reverse that trend. He'll need it. To start with, new leaders to drive changes with real peer pressure. Only way it's changing.
Actually 3 coaches this century have been sacked on the back of a year of shitload of injuries where even fielding a side at times wasn't that easy. Brittain, Ratten and now Teague, 3 most "successful" coaches win/loss in that times. The first two cases the next coach after them performed terribly. Obviously don't know about the the 3rd yet. Hope Voss can change that. Melbourne finished 17th 2 years ago with 5 wins after a preseason where more than 3/4 of their side didn't get much of a season due to surgeries and alot injuries during the year. Shows how alot of injuries can affect a side.