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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by kruddler -Maybe, but it starts with the coach. You can have everything else in place, but if the coach isn't doing the job then it won't work. If the end it is all about what happens on the field and right now it is 11 wins from the last 38. If that isn't happening but nothing is happening. Not disagreeing totally with you, you have some points, but that's the bottom line. He has failed to evolve with the changing game, which is pretty obvious.
The only one spinning it is the bloke who refuses to acknowledge that the success of a football team is spread across 100 blokes, not 1.
You can have issues with a crap club generally, which I think beat Teague, and Malthouse made mention of that not long ago in his time here, but sometimes coaching stands out more, as it has here and did going back to Bolton. Have to be aware of which is the greater over-riding issue. Vossy is basically done here. 11 from 38 says so.
You can have the best coach in the land, but if the blokes around him are not doing their job it won't work.
Yes, Voss has stuck with the contested ball game plan. Why is that?
Do we have a bunch of fast, elite ball user, outside runners on our list? Please point them out if you do because i can't see them.
So IF he tried to do anything else, then we would be FURTHER behind on the win/loss ledger. We simply don't have the cattle to do anything else.
Its been 2 years and we still struggle for midfield forward connection and conversion. Its because we have a list full of blokes who can't kick. The guys we have up forward are not good enough to overcome this. We HAD Charlie, who helped. Even TDK could take a mark out of nowhere and help that area out. Now we've got very little marking talent up forward, and nothing coming through, and we have addressed our biggest issue in the midfield anywhere near a point where we can change our style.
So what do you want Voss to do?
What would Chris Fagan do with this team? Roos, Longmire, Hardwick, Clarkson.....anyone?
We play the way we do because of the players we have.
We struggle to turn things around on match day because the players we have.
We struggle to kick through the big sticks, because of the players we have.
To paraphrase the old Ronald Dale....
You give me players, and i'll shutup!