Fletcher for the backs. Has the runs on the board.
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To quote paul roos its a habitâŚa habit that we donât haveâŚ
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No Iâm saying Neeld cannot effectively communicate a game plan and get the player buy in. Even a successful one he knows inside out let alone trying to copy something heâs not been a part of.
Players confused. Players have no belief in what is being taught. Players unhappy with how he interacts with them. Team turns to â â â â .
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Oh. I get it. So some parts of Melbourne days are applicable, but others arenât.
Yes? Some of the roles he had as a senior coach would apply in his current position and some wouldnât.
I can tell you from experience if the players donât buy in 100 percent then nothing will save the coachâŚ
I know of one Australian national team that underperformed to get the correct coach only to become today one of the most popular teams in the countryâŚthe 1st coach kicked them off and the current coach has been keeping the polish on so to speak!
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If only the players coule be as critical on themselves and their team mates, maybe some of the other issues might resolve themselves.
Again how thw â â â â would any gameplan work with some of our currenr senior players performing ?
You swap out
Rance for hurley
Hepp for cotchin
Zaka foe say prestia
And you swap daniher foe revolt
Do any of you rhink that Richmond would get a win , having those players in their starting 22 ?
The simple fact is , those players would probably not be richmonds best 22 , yet at our club they are the leadership group.
Some valid points obviously about the coaching, but the players in here are escaping alot of blame.
The goddard stuff just goes to show that they arent in it foe the team and each other. They are playing foe themselves and themselves alone.
I rmemeber back to zerrett getting knocked out in rd 1 and no one did a thing.
Thats not a coaxhing issue , thays just a bunch of self centered prima donnas who think they are better than they are, while having achieved 0 in a foitball sense.
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Respectfully disagree. Yes the players need a serious review howeverâŚ
I actually do think you could swap Rance and Hurley and they would have similar output. Hurley would benefit greatly by being in a team that actually applied pressure through the middle and that he wasnât given 100% of all kicking duties. Rance wouldnât enjoy our backline so muchâŚ
Hepp for Cotchin prior to his rebirth last year would have been an equal swap imho. Both very good accumulators of the ball but both seen as slightly âsoftâ. Cotchin took a lot of years for it to click and hopefully Heppell learns from it.
Prestia clearly better than Zaka and Richmond got a steal there. However if that was the only change you made then I think Zaka would go alright in their system. Look at his tackling numbers and defensive efforts⌠he has it in there but needs to be slammed into action.
Daniher for Reiwoldt⌠ok the past 6 games havenât been good but seriously⌠Daniher has got â â â â delivery, â â â â system and very little support. I think you could make the switch and Daniher might be the better player.
So, based on the names you threw up, I think you could absolutely swap those four players and Richmond would still kill/destroy/maim us. Our game plan simply wouldnât hold up to their pressure. We make Mason Cox look good ffs. It is not just players/cattle.
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I may offer the Club my services (as a management consultant). They will need to fly me in from Tokyo, though. 
im sure the club can afford 1 economy ticket from tokyo. i meant we used a private jet for a guy in â â â â â â â adelaide.
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This company only follows the $$
Email the company to notify them, that if a full review/coaching overhaul is not performed. You will cease your membership, stop going to games, stop buying EFC products.
They will eventually get the message.
The best interest of this âcompanyâ (not club) - is not of the shareholders (members) - it is of being re-elected and lining the pockets of the executives. Sadly this company is no different, to the companies going through a Royal Commission, that you despise.
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Set it up, @barnz - via Paul Little, please.
Funnily, I actually know one of the senior (Japanese) blokes heading up Toll. After all, it is now a Japanese company. Iâd need Paul to invite me over, though.
16 - 4 centre clearances
what the â â â â are we paying these clowns for
F-
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Becos this thread is about coaching. Just check the other threads where the players are certainly not escaping blame.
The job of a coach is the get the best out of his players and get the right game plan(s). That is the question to be asked.
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Mr Sunbury
To answer your question wht we dont play physical - we donât have players physically built to do that. Our midfielders are very small and lightly built.
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Agree with the size of our mids in particular but have a look at the way Trent Cotchin attacks a contest or the player with the ball now. You can still play physically without being a monster. Devon Smith is the best we have in this aspect, followed by Parish. Is Heppell small too? He doesnât bodyline the ball like he should at 6â2â
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Just on Cotchin I think that has certainly become more prominent over the past 12-18 months imo.
He now plays with aggression and a mean streak which he didnât necessarily before. No longer just a nice player.
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Against the Pies we apparently won these âclearancesâ
What the Fark is the good of winning the clearance when the other team swoops on the ball and gets the score.
So what is a âclearanceâ anyway ? Perhaps another BS stat that Hipworth uses to justify his existence
Total and utter garbage. Letâs at least keep some semblance of rationality, as emotive a time as it is.
More broadly on topic, Richmond built a style that suited what they have. They junked the second key tall forward because said key forward was junk. And almost every player of last yearâs premiership side has been ridiculed and lambasted at times over the years. It can be turned around by the right people.
The last two flags suggest that committing to, and absolutely believing in, a certain system takes you to the top. Most importantly, the system has to be genuinely effective, players quickly sniff out the impossible. The Dogs would also suggest that itâs easily lost. Bevo changed up his line coaches much as we have done. Same staff, but it all unraveled. Recruiting department was at war with itself. Players went on benders and fractured. Tension within the coaches. Tension at board level.
Do our players believe in the coaching group, the gameplan and the instructions? Thatâs key, because you donât suddenly lose raw ability. But you can easily lose how to compete effectively if you cease to believe in the messaging.
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