100%. He’s got no answers and just sounds like a dumb ■■■. The vision we get of him addressing the players are cringeworthy. I don’t know what half he says is supposed to mean. Completely out of his depth. Move him on.
I posted this in another thread. But it really belongs here. Whatever game plan we have, it isn’t working due to one of the following:
A. the plan sucks
B. Rutten can’t articulate his plan
C. the players don’t understand the plan
D. We don’t have the players capable of achieving the plan
E. We haven’t developed players to play to our plan
F. All of the above
When you watch the vision of how we setup, how we run, how we “cover”, one thing is obvious:
we are completely broken
Yes the players are to blame, but so is the coaching group, not just Rutten (although as senior coach it falls on him), but all the coaches.
What is the club doing about it?
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This probably sounds snarky but the way he constantly inhales and semi mumbles when he speaks does not exude confidence or engender belief and trust that this is THE guy to steer this club through to the promised land. I can’t help but think that he’d be pretty uninspiring to play under.
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He’s finished at Essendon
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Just need to go back to the basics. Football is a simple competitive game, win the footy and move the footy forward. I think we just use the next two weeks to get the basics right.
Firstly simplify positions and go more 1v1 - beat your opponent, win the ball. We’re not getting smashed in contested ball so this should be an easy task but I’d put it on the players to be more accountable for your man and trust your teammate they can beat theirs. No more 5 players chasing down the one guy while 4 opponents start creating space.
Secondly put an emphasis on skills in between games and make it easier on game day that players don’t have to kick it perfectly. Position players in front of the footy in clusters or some type of simple outlet if nothing else is on. Go back to point one - beat you opponent win the ball, if you can’t win it and move it forward just kill the contest and get a stoppage. Start again.
Thirdly, remove the mr nice guy or easy to play against stigma. Your likely to play on more than one opponent throughout the game but make them know it. Harass them between play, bump and push them, mouth off get in their head, tackle with intent, intimidate them with pressure. I don’t care if we’re smiling at the end of the game but maybe remove the smile off your direct opponent after the game to the point where they might not want to shake your hand after the game. When you cross that white line, it’s your arena.
Besides Draper all our players have played footy their whole lives and can make good instinctive decisions when needed. Give them an outlet on the ground to move the footy forward when there’s no other option. Motivate them to get the best out of themselves to win the footy and beat their opponent. Beat down every obstacle that gets in your way.
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Has to be accumulation of multiple things
Why the players are picking and choosing when to put in the effort the biggest issue
We had 20+ tackles in last quarter vs Hawks and that pressure had us win that game. And then we barely fire a shot vs Sydney
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I would rather Rutten coaches out the year, and then we get a new coach.
Last thing we want is to sack him now, Caracalla comes in. We sneak a few wins and cost ourselves a better draft pick
Also the club are more likely to go for their favoured “promotion within” choice if Caracalla becomes caretaker for half a season
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If they gave the job to Caracella or Gia after a caretaking stint with no process, I’m done.
Honestly, I’d be out.
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Rutten should prey we go hard for Clarkson. It’s the only thing that will save his coaching career.
As every other club will bone our performance in management and disfunction, not his coaching and feel he wasn’t give a full shot at it in a rebuild. He would get another gig down the track.
He fails next year he will never be a senior coach again.
Caracella has a huge role in why we are playing as we are now. The midfield is a core problem.
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My concern with this is because we throw extras into contested situations around the ground. By wanting to win the contested ball we sacrifice having enough players forward or behind the ball. Going man on man could really expose us as our midget mids may not win as many contests when the numbers are even.
Having said that, I totally agree that going 1 on 1 needs to happen.
Will be sacked next season, it’s gonna happen
Yep, I would be happy to punt him with Rutten quite frankly at the end of the year
They’ll give him next year but gee he would want to improve quickly
Whether it’s Rutten or a new coach the thing that needs doing will make them worse off in the short term.
If we sacked Rutten I would want a new coach to come in and ruthlessly turn over the list. That means a few years of being terrible.
We could be playing better at the moment via improved game-plan but I don’t think it’s the difference between being bottom 4 and top 4.
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Agree with the sentiment. These same princesses who can’t cope with adversity were probably thinking Rutten was a gun last year.
The midfield/contested rabble of a problem is a serious test for the coaching group. The fix won’t be authentic if Jake comes back and finds form and plays like he did last year and gets us some wins. Our midfield depth, softness, defensive efforts and connection are all abysmal and nobody picked that during the preseason. The how and why are the jobs of the coaches and leaders to sort out.
Reviews and a new head coach are premature. The coaching group need to identify the problem and start the fix so they get results before this season is over. If they can’t then we’ll get some new coaches who we think can.
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Terrible like north where we will then have younger players like Perkins questioning if they should stay
There would be an exodus of young talent walking out if we go scorched earth on the list
This is a good question. Likewise I have been wondering how three experienced players in Heppell, Merrett and Parish can only have two tackles between them in a game. I can understand one having a bad/slack night, but all three simultaneously? It has to be by instruction (guard your zone or whatever).
I can only assume for the Hawthorn game the coach threw away the rule book temporarily in desperation, but for the Swans game went back to the long term game plan that has the players robotically following instruction, showing no initiative.
It’s the only way I can explain Sat night’s tackling debacle.
So what.
Our senior players have achieved nothing in their careers why are we so desperate to keep hold of them. Keep the ones that set a standard to teach our kids to play the right way, but on current viewing I’m not even sure who those players are.
As a team we are soft, lazy and selfish. If scorched earth is required to gut this list maybe it’s a good thing.
Just you wait North will be top 4 and playing finals in a few years and will be luaded for their rebuild and picking up so much talent. We will still be ■■■■.
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