Board, CEO and players. Sounds like the next logical sponsorship is Kleenex.
What was the first year we tried to implement this poxy defencive system the players canât implement. 2019. It has failed spectacularly and been abandoned every year only to return the following year. Am I imagining things?
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No but I wish you were.
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A dreadful appointment.
But have a look at the bloke who appointed him.
And then have a look at the people who ratified it.
Also, have a look at the clown responsible for our wafer-thin list.
As bad as Rutten is, our issues are far, far deeper than just the coach.
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Can people stop suggesting we bring in ex players/coaches who are working in the media earning massive money with no stress and expect them to come to us as assistant coaches where they have way more stress and long thankless hours with way less money. Itâs not going to happen. They either come for the top job or they aint coming.
I usually donât watch after match stuff from our club because itâs usually just BS but i did watch Mahoneyâs video and thought he spoke really well and honestly.
The thing he said that really grabbed my attention was that they are trying to get our defenders to play more aggressively and attacking so they can get more intercepts. This is poor coaching for a club that exerts no defensive pressure up the ground and concedes as many inside 50 as we do.
This sort of mindset is a big part of our defensive problem imo and is poor poor coaching. It would work with a good side who work hard for their team mates and donât leak inside 50âs but a young side who do the opposite it is terrible coaching.
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First ten seconds Mahoney says that the Swans are a contest based team. Theyâre actually not. 10th in the league for contested possessions.
Theyâve struggled in this area all year.
Theyâre a ball movement side, they spread the ground to create width and have a system that allows space going inside 50.
The fact that Mahoney trotted out the same cliche about Sydney right away shows they have NFI. The way we âdefendedâ their ball movement was disgusting.
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Itâs the part I find hard to reconcile this year, the assistant coaches come with good reputations. Truck certainly doesnât shy away from â â â â performances (could be stronger), was highly regarded after last years turnaround.
Yet we suck so badly this year, mostly from just a complete lack of effort.
The coaching group do make some big blunders though, Tex first game, not dropping players properly etc.
The only possible solution I can come up with is outside intervention I.e. X undermining what they are trying to do as a coaching group. Which falls squarely at the Football Managers inability to do his job and management for being â â â â â â â useless.
I think heâs got to go. Its a shame because I really wanted him to sort this mess of a club out, he seems like an awesome guy. He just has no idea on how to set up a game plan.
Our local Dubbo team would beat this rabbleâŚâŚ
Has lost the players.
Next 6 weeks will be interesting.
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Anyone see the clip of Rutten standing front on to the guys (Reid, Bryan, Caldwell, ?) on the bench?
He was talking and gesturing something and none of them were listening.
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Iâd love to know more about his appointment in 2019 but we will never get a full, clear, honest version of events from the club.
What has been reported is that the club were spooked by the Crows sniffing around Rutten in their own search for senior coach and signed him up - why? What did the club know about Rutten at this stage that prompted such an immediate and dramatic response?
âLook that was disappointing, certainly not the brand of football we want to be known for. We want to build a side that is consistently skilled and pressuring the opposition and unfortunately when insert opposition here stepped it up we werenât able to go with them. Weâll learn from that and work on a few things moving forward.â
Every week.
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The more difficult problem is how to solve the fact that our players are so easily lost
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Needs a comment on staying in the arm wrestle. But otherwise spot on.
So he needs to do what Dimma did 15 years ago?
worth pointing out again
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the legitimate question has to star being asked now, was Knights actually that bad, or did he just get too many senior players off side as they saw their power eroding cos he was favouring youth and the future instead of the here and now ?
we all crap on about how he had no defensive plan, yet the guy we have now has come in on the back of being supposedly the mastermind of richmonds defence, said the new clubs mantra would be blue collar hard working defensive side, and look at how thatâs going.
Ironically knights was prolly the only one who was trying to move away from the old ways, and he got the â â â the quickest, which sums up this club to a tea.
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Itâs the sort of consistency that sees you lauded and promoted at etc over the last 20 years.
Heâs been trying to implement the Richmond defensive system for 4 years and we simply donât have the cattle to make it work. We donât have the hard headed, fast, high volume runners you need all over the ground to pull it off. End of.
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Just looked up the centre square attendances for last night. Parish 18, Shiel 18, Caldwell 11, Hobbs 9, McGrath 7, Merrett 6 . They managed 8 cb clearances between them.
Pretty interesting figures on several levels.
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