We need to be more concerned on retaining players again
I agree, but as a coach of juniors, if you donāt have the cattle to be strong in the midfield, your structure will always be overrun and look like thereās no effort as your defenders end up cooked by half time, no matter how fit they are.
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Players simply choosing to play in their terms, they arenāt giving their all.
It mental with Essendon, all of our players can play much much better and itās now at the point of a spreading cancer within the club and itās out of control.
Heās a soft coach.
If it were me I would have ripped them a new one after the game my eyes would have been red.
I would show the group Parkerās taunt and tell them this is what the competition thinks about us soft a laughing stock.
I would then show the tackle stat and tell them if you donāt want to tackle or defend both ways then donāt come monday pack you ā ā ā ā and leave
He needs to be ruthless Rutten
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Except that last year for long patches we were not like this. We tackled a lot, added a lot of pressure and kept the opposition mostly to lower scores.
Mostly the same players, so something has changed.
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Mahoney hasnāt got a clue. He was a cancer at Melbourne who the players and some coaching staff couldnāt wait to see the back of. Yet Xavier knows everything Campbell thought he would be a great appointment.
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Really worries me if Clarkeson, Ross Lyon and Buckley are the standouts of potential coaches.
Clarkeson yes but he will go to gcs or maybe tassieā¦ if one of the other 2 took over as Ess coach i would tear up my membership!
Lyon has had no success over many yearsā¦ and has a big ? over his character. Buckley also no success as player or coach and made dreadful decisions on player management and was sacked. Dont understand why anyone would want them.
Hopefully there are better options out there!
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Ross took an average Freo team to a GF.
Bucks got Pies into a GF in 2018 and were unlucky not to win it imo.
Just because they didnāt win a flag doesnāt mean that they are no good
Both coaches know what it takes to get there
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Standing by for a Fogdog announcement-
Donāt make plans D. Hardwick 2023
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One thing is for certain, our performances on the road would greatly improve under Buckley, heck we might even make the GF or at least multiple finals wins for the first time in 20 years.
I wouldnt be averse to Buckley. Despised him as a player and bloke his entire career, though for some reason I actually think heād do well 2nd time round coaching, away from Collingwood.
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Bullshit.
On the back of Cox playing a blinder. Fluke.
You canāt fluke your way to a GF
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Hope you arenāt holding your breath waiting.
There is zero chance of that happening.
I have no idea what this yearās goals are compared to last year.
And whether we have added a whole new layer of things to our game plan that has stuffed up the good bits from last year.
The coaches and players know what has been done for this year and they need to assess that - thatās if any of this is accurate.
But if last year was about trying to learn to walk, and this year we went from walking to sprinting then itās best we go back to getting our walking being as solid as can be first.
Looking at our how we play I donāt know what any of our traits (brand they call itā¦) are meant to be.
fast run and carry
hard tackling
one on one
whatever
Thereās not one (good) stand out feature of what we are meant to be at the moment.
So, I suggest we pick one or two keep attributes and make that our focus for the next few weeks. Regardless of win or lose on the scoreboard.
Tackling would be a good one to start with. Make unrelenting tackling our focus at training and in games. We donāt let up and we pressure the opposition 100% of the time.
Iām sure they are talking as a group but it feels like itās always based on hoping something will click. Coaches need to move the group beyond this situation and make it a viable and consistent mindset.
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Not Shiel though, and heād make a difference to our side because heās better both offensively (he can actually kick goals) and defensively.
I hope we are going after him again.
Weird theory, and im giving too much credit to them in posing it.
But is Rutten openly going after the senior players to expose the rot heās seen. Put it on them, then keep playing them and using it as a catalyst of change. Given most are saga or trade-ins and have special conditions attached from X or something like that. He hang them out to dry, offloads them and start a rebuild from scratch starting from the Cox, Reid, Perkins draft onwards?
No I written it, couldnāt be it.
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LOL.
It certainly wasnāt a fluke.
Iād be happy if Essendon supporters didnāt turn up for the game. Players donāt, so the ā ā ā ā should we!
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Changes need to be made at the top (Board, CEO) before any coaching change is considered.
I donāt think Rutten is a good coach, but the issues run deeper.
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I would love to believe that. But the fact that he keeps selecting them for games shows that he either doesnāt think there is a problem or doesnāt have the stones to actually upset a few egoās
Look how he ādroppedā Shiel.