It’s the bubbles of nothing that make it really something.
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The ox tore into neeld on radio today. Never like Neeld and I cringe everytime I see him in our box. For ■■■■■ sake why did we pick him up and what the ■■■■ is he still doing here.
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The ox doesn’t like him. well that changes everything
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I think he is the right man to lead us in the now. As many have identified their is a lingering culture of mediocrity (which in fairness is being kind) that for many reasons we haven’t been able to shake across a decade and 3 or 4 coaches. We are also desperate for some stability and this guy screams strength and stability. I believe Worsfold can makes us a harder football team, I think he can help us build the type of winning culture needed to be sustainably successful. I’m really pleased he is at the helm. We get to see him for the first time unecumbered next year and I’m really looking forward to it. It will be interesting to see what he can add to the game plan with a clearer runway.
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The OX = Cgates
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Took 7 rounds to play Stewart
Played Myers for 7 rounds too many (including the final)
Would have won more games with Bird or Hocking than Howlett/Myers
Same lazy bullshit unaccountable footy we’ve had for last 15 years.
Made the finals on the back of scraping past teams as woeful as us
Lost to brissie at home in a must win game
Didn’t even fire a shot after 30 minutes into a final
Team and coach pretty average imo
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Essendon kicked 5.4 to 6.2 after half time, but a win was beyond reach.
“In that first quarter I thought the players threw everything we had at Sydney,” Worsfold said.
“They withstood that and went in 1.3 (Essendon) to 3.2 (Sydney) at quarter time, so we’d had the same number of shots at goal, we were just accuracy out of being equal.
“Then in that second quarter we couldn’t slow them down at all and that was disappointing that at no point during the quarter did it look like the players got together to say ‘let’s just close this down as much as we can and halt them’.
“We addressed that as a group at half time and the players responded pretty strongly as a group after that and took the game up to Sydney, but obviously the damage was done.”
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This ■■■■ is just trolling us now right???
No he isn’t, and if you don’t understand what he is talking about then it is you who has the issues, not him.
What do you think happens at hawthorn or at Geelong or even Sydney?
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So…the coach didn’t intervene when the game was getting away from us, in a final, so that we can have a team that will finals…[edit]…hopefully…
Okay.
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So why bother having a coach on matchday? Couldn’t he have instructed them to slow the game down?
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It takes years of coaching experience and study of the game to send a runner out to say: “Man on man for the next 10 minutes, abandon the zone”.
Woosh will get there. I have faith in him.
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Oh dear
He never said he didn’t try and intervene he was commenting on the fact that the players didn’t react the way they have been coached to and he addressed that factor at half time, not that he didn’t do anything until half time.
He can make adjustments to send players to different spots but it takes the players on the ground to realise they need to adjust.
It is why you have senior players. It is the role that Hodge had at Hawthorn and did in spades. When things needed to be changed Hodge would immediately, on the field, adjust what the players were doing, along with the other senior players. Ours are like deers in the headlights, they don’t react and act quickly enough. He is trying to coach that into them.
Seriously it isn’t that hard to understand.
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The theory you have described is indeed easy to understand.
The fact that a coach can’t achieve the task of having his team man up is very, very difficult to comprehend.
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Yes but that is what he is addressing.
And it is NOT a theory, it is what he has been talking about for the past 2 years.
Then he should express disappointment at himself, Icey.
No he shouldn’t, he should express disappointment that players are not learning as quickly as he would like. This is what he has done.
I can’t agree with that even a little.
Simply, if a team won’t man up correctly then the coach is ineffective.
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I don’t think it’s us misinterpreting what the coach said.
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