Re: Will it stand up?
Reply #47 –
Nah disagree he gets full credit for changing things up and making it work. Whilst it wasn't his traditional gameplan it was still his gameplan.
That is how I see it, and MM can keep stating his plan hasn't changed and that would be consistent. We would hope he hasn't got one plan, and that Sunday's game was part of the overall plan. But countering that, MM looked like a cut snake in the post match presser hardly a happy coach, the Dogs coach was happier describing the game as way too open and out of control.
I think most critical posters are bagging the heavily defensive boundary hugging game plan as not being suitable to our list. Yet it seems to keep rolling out as an apparent default, even moments on Sunday we seemed to slip into that mode. It is hard to tell if that is the cause of the Dogs surge or if it is a symptom of the Dogs surging, from the outside you just cannot tell. But I do suspect it is part of the plan, primarily because the heavy running high work rate is unsustainable for a full match let alone a full season!