So this is now the second Rutten game plan in three years to be abandoned mid season?
We’ve found one here. No wonder we appointed him without even bothering to look if anyone else was out there.
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When you think about it… If we sacked him now, what would be lost??
We have just abandoned his game-plan, and they clearly aren’t listening to him.
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A chunk of cashola and rep points for X and the board.
Others have suggested it is basically the 4th try at the same thing since he’s been at Essendon.
Commented earlier that maybe he is not the Tigers genius they thought he was, and he was simply copying what the Tigers had done and doesn’t really have any other tricks.
Time will tell.
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Exactly.
It has told.
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Or, and i think this is more likely, he was part of a team that built a game plan that suited the playing group and the direction the coach and club wanted to go. He then brought that same mindset here with the assumption he could train this group to play in a similar way. However it has never worked.
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What would a rookie coach be on in there first contract? $500-$600K.
One of the media outlets was discussing it (wish I could remember who was saying it) and they suggested if he would be gone with a year to go on his contract that he would be paid out approx $250K. Talked along the lines of the club would only pay half based on clauses etc. They didnt sem to think it would be much of a financial burden on the club and the soft cap.
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I think this is exactly what it is.
The best coaches build a gameplan that suits the types of players they have at their disposal. Then you have an overall defensive “plan” that they all adhere too.
And you slightly tinker things as the needs arise. You don’t keep on persisting with a style/plan that doesn’t work. And you don’t keep changing your plans drastically every 10 rounds or so
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The season is getting that stench we had in Knights’ final year.
Game plan queries.
Competency of the coach being heavily scrutinised.
Injuries.
Player schisms.
Loses.
Fans and media asking what the heck is going on.
Every match a critical game.
etc
etc
etc
no real positives at the moment
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And Worsfold’s.
And Rutten’s.
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This should be a poll, because I’m actually interested in how people would approach a situation like this.
The year is 2023. You, a few years post playing career, and after an assistant coaches role in a successful team, become the head coach of a bottom 6 team.
How do you go about it?
- Implement the game plan that worked at one of your previous clubs, then develop the playing list accordingly.
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the playing list, then develop the game plan accordingly.
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So we just need a gameplan for players who don’t want to defend, or run, or tackle or win contested ball and we should be all set.
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But what if half the players don’t want to adhere to the overall defensive game plan causing divisions amount the playing group?
Paying X out will be the big cost. Heres hoping that old brash had enough sense to write in some termination payment that equalled no where near the contacts full “value”. The old farker only extended because even our tone deaf board can see that X aint exactly flavour of the month.
Do they though ?
melbournes gameplan looks alot like richmonds gameplan.
they have attacking players and more defensive focused players, but they set up well in a well structured rolling zone, again similar to richmond.
Richmond went out and got caddy and prestia (not noted defensive players) cotchin took more of a backseat in the midfield, nank was a wrecking ball in the middle and they all covered for dusty.
Richmond started it off with Just revolt and grieg as their main forwards, the went out and got lynch, they didn’t divert away from the pressure game cos of it.
The only 2 differences between those 2 teams and us
1 buy in from the players
2 the club moved on from the believed status quo of what was thought to be their “best 22”
Would melbourne have fared any better last year if they stuck with melksham, jetta and jones ? to name a few ?
Richmond got rid of the likes of deledio, vickery etc
what did we do ? rush back shiel, rush back mcgrath, rush back caldwall, oh because “there’s no one else”.
again kane cornes summed it up, what gameplan do people honestly think works for a side that picks and chooses when they want to put in effort ?
It doesn’t and never will.
again what gameplan works when you have shiel leaving a forward to run down the ground cos “it’s not his man” and he wants to run to the wing to stand 30 meters out the back by himself.
what gameplan do people honestly think works with that type of player and mindset not limited to shiel.
we have a most of the starting 22 who want to play the dusty role, where they just run around and gather possessioins, what gameplan can produce results with that mentality ?
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Then you drop the players who are causing issues, and you don’t bring them back into the team until they fix their attitude
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At last, a use for the Essendon Bowls Club
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What older guys ?
Hurley
Phillips
Heppell
Shiel
Smith
Stewart
Stringer
Generational divide ? Sorry just cannot see that at all.
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