Yes but if you’ve spent 3.5 years implying Worsfold is an utter idiot, and he’s presently getting most things right, you grasp everything you can to re-enforce a point.
It’s the exact same “thinking” as BF trolls had 2010-2014. When we lost, Hird was doing all the coaching - when we won, it was all Thompson’s doing.
It’s the same as the problem I have with the way stats are used.
Too many use them as a drunk uses a lamp-post - to prop themselves up, instead of for illumination.
Reckon we’re all going to be a lot more bullish about our efforts when the Lions roll the Pies on Thursday night. Young or not, they are a quality outfit. Some on here lamented that we didn’t blow them out of the water after half time, I put it down to the Lions persistence. They are well coached and their recent wins have given them belief that they can come from behind.
A lot of people here reading tea leaves regarding the game plan and players comments. Even in the round 1 debacle we were playing very direct football (matching GWS for i50s) skill errors simply meant we couldn’t retain possession and turned the ball over too often.
Frankly, I don’t buy the whole ‘freedom to play’ thing in any literal sense (freedom of mindset perhaps?) for several reasons:
Our defense was very well organised on the weekend; as noted by the commentators and many on here. We had an effective press but the discipline not to allow easy over the top goals. That’s coaching.
Our ‘gameplan’ (Whatever that means). There are two things that we do well when we win, our well documented ‘sling shot’ football using our pace through the middle. What we get less credit for is our possession game, particularly when we are in the lead. Many of last seasons big wins (think WC and Geelong) were built upon explosive quarters, but consolidated by second halves where we retained the ball and took the ‘sting’ out of the game. The Lions had a fair bit of the ball in the second half on the weekend but we didn’t give them much to work with, our ball movement was more conservative and they received no easy goals that would allow them to build momentum. Clearly a team direction in my opinion.
The ‘tap ons’ in 2019. This is a brand new feature of our game and the most clear example of Rutten’s impact. Richmond are masters of knowing when to take possession and when to use the space, and it suits our leg speed to a tee. Again, clearly a team direction.
It certainly is. I quite enjoy reading comments that talk up Buckley as a master of coaching. But this is a guy who probably should have been sacked and was only saved because McGuire threw him a hail Mary of a contract extension because it would have almost been the end of the president as well.
You’re free to feel concerned, but perhaps you should be more discerning about who/what you listen to.
You’re trusting Finding nino, DKP, and another 4 or 5 vocal posters on here actually to know more about the internal workings of the club than the actual senior coach.