How many years do you think a coach should be given before seeing some kind of genuine improvement?
27 years for mine.
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I like to read OPINIONS, but a lot of the time that is exactly what they all are, not FACTS.
Some seem to find it difficult to distinguish which is which.
Why some positional changes are made, why some players are played in a “different position” or as some might say “out of position”, why some players are persevered with and why others are not selected is likely based on certain objectives and perhaps to find things out through experimentation. Those objectives, the purpose of experimentation, the information sought and got as a result may be beyond the understanding of those not designing the experimentation.
If you are simply going to evaluate what you see based on certain preconceived ideas of what you think should happen, then it is easy for the BB well educated and experienced critics to assess what they see in the way they choose to see it.
The FACT is that Brad is a ■■■■ coach. This is not an OPINION.
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My point exactly
Thank god you agree.
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I mean preserving draft capital while the list was already quite young. This is the 2023 list, in order of games played - it’s not exactly dad’s army (especially when you consider this was 3 years ago):
unfortunately, blitzers have been brainwashed by their own Blitz propaganda machine.
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As opposed to propaganda from the club?
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Since you love spending time on a forum but dont value the opinion of the posters and only deal in facts, what do you think of nocturnals post above?.
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So… that list of players suggests… they tried to get more out of the list? I mean, its’ basically the same bunch of guys from the year before.
Sorry mate, we’re miles apart on this one. 
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Agree they’re both forms of propaganda. I think there’s an important difference between club and Blitz propaganda.
The club puts out mostly positive stuff but usually only once, and I think it would have less brainwashing impact on us compared to (say) our own preseason training reports.
Whereas Blitz is an echo chamber of performative whingers who repeat themselves ad nauseum.
Propaganda when repeated over and over becomes very effective in shaping beliefs. Hence why I think some opinions on here morph into false-facts.
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Amen.
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There’s little doubt (in my mind) there was a change in strategy late into 2024. Until then, we didn’t seem committed to a full blown rebuild, just a mini build if you like.
Year one, after Brad had a year to observe and work out what was wrong, the conclusion seemed to be our players weren’t living professional lifestyles. That was the issue. Remember the famous press conference after the final round.
We got rid of party boy Pat Voss ect as a result, and sent a rocket up the list saying things are changing around here.
Throughout 2024, the messaging turned from professionalism, to our mental resilience especially with growing expectations. Scott offen talked about that we need to learn how to win with the pressure of finals and being a potential top 4 team.
After another late season fade out, with a very small injury list mind you, I believe Matt Rosa convinced the board the list was the real issue, and lack of A grade talent would keep holding us back. It was only then the club decided to properly invest in youth.
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I don’t think getting rid of a rookie listed player sent any other message than it was business as usual.
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I’d genuinely love to see a robust, structured analysis of Brad Scott’s press conferences over the years. Would reveal a lot.
All well and good, but don’t pretend that he’s made the minor, occasional mistake. This is just off the top of my head:
- Desperately trying to make finals, delaying the inevitable, with a list that was nowhere near premiership contention during his first two seasons in charge
- Negligently playing injured players (Draper and Stringer) in a pathetic and ultimately futile attempt to make finals at the end of ‘23
- Letting Pat Voss leave the club
- Letting D’Ambrosio leave the club
- Continuously playing Ben Hobbs, a first round draft pick, in a position he was completely unsuited to
- Playing land of the giants teams twice in three weeks, despite it ■■■■■■■ down with rain before and during both games
- Recruiting and continuing to select Ben McKay
- Denying Heppell a farewell home game in favour of Sam ■■■■■■■ Weideman
- This cosmically absurd situation with Archie Perkins (including selecting him for round 1 this season despite him having been in full training for about three weeks)
- Playing Harry Jones and Jake Kelly on the wing
- Nic Martin to half-back, and the repercussions that had for Mason Redman
- Pumping games into Andrew Phillips and then Todd Goldstein while Nick Bryan dominated in the reserves
- His irrefutable inability to embed an even remotely remotely effective defensive system (and before you dismiss this as speculation, just take a look at our points conceded numbers)
- Refusing to give Tsatas a reasonable opportunity at AFL level despite what we paid for him and his high level of performance in the VFL
- Public ■■■■-canning our best young player for missing a goal
This list just goes on and on. He makes mistakes. Lots of them. Big ones. I watch his performance as coach and can only conclude that he’s either inconceivably bad at his job, is deliberately sabotaging us, or is simply tanking. We are regularly a disorganised, uncompetitive rabble under this guy, it is abundantly clear, and has been for a good while, that what he’s trying to do does not work.
You accuse people of speculating, but it seems to me that your defence of him is most speculative because on all the publicly available evidence he is doing a ■■■■■■■ horrendous job.
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I do have a day job you know, and only just caught up on those responses (late lunch break) … so it’s not crickets … I will get back to you on that …. Sheesh … it’s not like I live in here
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So much this. It’s not that he is making errors. It’s that he is continually making the same errors and they are very basic ones- that a coach of his experience should never do
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