Re: Post Game Pandemonium!: AFL 2020 Rd 17: Carlton vs Adelaide
Reply #52 –
I had to watch the game again, just to be sure. What a mess. No Mr Teague you didn't let down the supporters today, you let down yourselves... time for the entire coaching group to stand in front of the full length mirrors.
Mssrs LoGuidice and Liddle had better take note of that knock on the door - it's reality. The senior coach and others can talk up the season all they like, the results and the performances speak far louder. We're brittle. We are completely unable to do the very basics -- esp disposal -- well, under any and all circumstances. The only thing we are any good at, at present, is fighting back... and then only to a degree. And beating the Dishlickers. Totally insecure in being pro active, and maintaining it.
To the same degree that we could have won a couple of close ones we could also, easily, have lost a couple of close ones and find ourselves about 15th or worse. Fragile between the lugholes, way too undisciplined, too indecisive, poor leadership. No mental toughness bar a few players... very few.
The good: Walsh & Weitering, they should be skippers. Their efforts are unconditional.
The bad: Mentality. The club has been talking all year about our inability to play 4 qtrs... how observant. News flash, whatever you're doing about it aint fckn working, do you realise that? Do you realise this is a major issue and has been for years? Do you realise the problem may lie with those within the coaching group? The game plan? The communication, ie, the players don't get it? Is there 360 feedback within the coaching group? For the problem to be identified and then for it to perpetuate says we must have some flaky dimwits with the coaching group... that is the only conclusion that makes sense as it's same old, same old, week after week, month after month, win, lose or draw.
Bringing out of form players into the side... specifically, McGovern and Cuningham this week. Yes, they both got possessions once the Crows tired but when they were needed most, early, tumbleweeds and crickets. ALL places in the side MUST be earned. There's a softness (sentimentality?) in our MC that is costing us confidence. NO MORE FAVOURITES, MR TEAGUE, or whoever is conning you into playing blokes who shouldn't be played.
So little tenacity. So little ruthlessness. So few of our blokes are uncompromising. How many jogged to the next contest today. How many gave up chases early? That's about leadership, discipline and direction, on and off the field.
The Ugly: Our disposal. That we really can only get on top of opponents when they relax or are in poor form, and then only for a while. A totally reactive side - a solid 10-16th yearly.
I don't agree that Simmo and Edwardo should be retired... if you didn't know their ages you'd see that both did their jobs today. Sheesh, at one stage Simmo had more metres gained than any other CFC bloke. Edwardo was desperate in the contest with pressure and energy - but had p1ss poor support.
In a difficult season with abnormal pressures the mentally weakest will fold soonest... the mentally strongest will likely win the flag.
Solution thoughts: change whatever we're doing re mental attitude, it is clearly NOT working. There's enough talent on our list to be doing far better than this, just seems to me they are being poorly or inadequately developed and trained. We hear that fckn word 'growth' all the damn time, yet we do not see it. So... get some hard edged assistant coaches, from successful environments who've a history of uncompromising excellence.
Hate to say it but I won't be getting my membership for next year early as I have done for decades. I'm going to wait to well into next season... more of the same, basic support no game membership, palpable improvement... then the wallet opens far wider.
I am off the TT. He's got next year to prove himself. More of the same... FO. So you'd better get some real performers in the coaching team.
Ill save myself the typing and just say x2