Re: Worst Leaders in the AFL!
Reply #154 –
I think our problems remain because our club behavior isn't changing, we still appear too tricky for our own good.
I want less effort of subterfuge and more effort on results.
I don't think Murphy is a bad leader, he has done well in the past but I doubt he is fit and ready to play. Don't be surprised if we hear at the end of this season that he has been struggling with an injury all season.
Last year 1AW limped through a season, Armfield, Jammo and Hendo as well, we are our own worst enemies in this regard. We claim to be playing the long term game, but we make short term decisions. This affects on field results and has nothing to do with our captain, it's a symptom of a club that has a bunch of players in survival mode!
Clubs like the Dawks or Geelong would have wrapped the better players in cotton wool ready for the next year and played the season out with the juniors to give them some experience. Instead we delay, delay, delay!
When it comes to decision making, we have the putting yips!
Is it any wonder when last time the coach was forced to rotate the squad heavily he was sacked, and the bloke currently in charge is on a slippery slope one game into his third season at the helm and one of the major knocks on him was giving Clem Smith a game?
Think about it.
WE HAVE CAUSED THIS.
Im not saying appoint Malthouse, but when he goes, we need to appoint someone we have faith in, and actually show some faith in them, and rather than go for the types that people are thinking, we should be looking squarely at the following two names:
Matthew Lappin
David Teague
Both have been around the traps as assistants. Teague's work as the Bullants coach was very impressive back then, and he has been an assistant at multiple AFL clubs now. Ditto Lappin who has been at Collingwood and is now having a go at the GC and still seems to think fondly of his time at Carlton.